re: How many fans of the Rant are 60 or over?

I’m 65 and remember the early days

I’m 63

I'm 62. They used to run family specials for some early season games like Rice or TAMU but by '68 or so they had priced us out. After that my Dad used to take me and my brothers to the Freshman games...they used to have 3 or 4 home games every season.

One of my favorite memories was watching Bert Jones in a couple of the 1969 Freshman games throwing to what would become one of his favorite targets Gerald Keigley!

Not many people would be at the game so you could sit close to the field. Jones threw the ball so hard that most of the time the receivers would let the ball get into their body and when the ball invariably bounced off their shoulder pads the sound it made was incredibly loud. I've never heard anything like that since!

Me.

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How many fans of the Rant are 60 or over?
and remember well the days of Cholly Mac

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I'm 49 and remember him...

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I am 72!

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+1

I grew up listening to John Ferguson call our games on the radio. Great voice.

68. I saw all of those guys. Even saw Steve Spurrier play in TS. I remember things like high school band night. Bert Jones to Brad Davis. Earthquake game. Oranges on the field (fog game). Archie in a cast and Cassanova and Craig Burns returning punts for TD's. Great times.

We had season tickets before I-10. Very different drive from Lafayette to Tiger Stadium back then.

Charlie Mac and one player would talk over silent, grainy film footage of the game every Sunday night.

There was no “every game is televised” back then. ABC had the lock on college football and you got one national game on Saturday (usually USC, Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, or Alabama). A televised LSU game was a huge deal. You have no idea how exciting it was to see LSU on ABC and to hear Keith Jackson call out our players names. A televised bowl game was the high point of our season.

I expect that the really cranky posters are the young whippersnappers who don’t have the perspective of having watched the Tigers for 45 years and more. We have seen the great, the good, the mediocre and the downright bad.

We got in free with a student ID, registration involved writing a check for $600 which included tuition, room, and board...books were an extra hundred, ahhh the good old days....could fill a grocery cart for $10 or so, gas 30 cents a gallon, cigarettes the same, weed $10 per bag...but who had that kinda money.