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

60

I’m about to be and our drugs were better and cleaner!!!

Idk, but there seems to be a lot of younger posters on the site nowadays...like alot more than there used to be. Annoying lil frickers.

62 here, make Mac Pack!

86 & love the tigers

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Lived in Hatcher Hall in 1960, worked in Bakers Restaurant (where Chimes is now) for meals, tips and a little pay

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Hello podnah - I enrolled at LSU in '56 and had less than $20 to my name.

Been wracking my brain for the name of the low class eatery just down the hill from you = You could get something they called "shrimp creole" for less than a dollar. All it was was a bowl of steamed rice with a pinkish tint - and every once in a while you could find a little speck of something that might have been shrimp. I ate lots of that stuff. Some of the servers worked for meals.

Cannot remember the name - it cramps my style when trying to tell stories about that time of my life. Seems like it started with an "S" -

Thanks

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Beat you there by 1 year. The fall of my first semester at LSU was in 1957. I was fortunate to see from the student section Jimmy Taylor play his senior season for LSU. His forte was running with the football and seeking out defenders to run over. The most vivid moment that is burned in my memory from watching him that season occurred during the home game with Georgia Tech. Taylor had broken clear on the left side and was heading toward the North end zone. I was in the lower student section near the sideline where he was running. A GT linebacker or safety attempted to make the open field tackle by hitting Taylor thigh high.
The end result was the defender being knocked unconscious and Jimmy continuing on his way.
The core for the 1958 NC team were sophomores that year. Cannon, Robinson, Fugler, Rabb, etc., and their talent was very evident, but Jimmy Taylor was THE MAN. That season ended with the uneventful record of 5-5-0. One amazing thing about the ’57 team is that two of its players later became enshrined into the NFL Hall of Fame (Jimmy Taylor and Johnny Robinson). From my time starting in 1957 until the present, many great players have contributed to the tradition of LSU football. Too many to mention. Today we are witnessing a QB who is putting up unbelievable numbers, leading the Tigers by showing intelligence and toughness on the playing field and running an offense that could only be imagined in our minds before this season. Hopefully the Tigers can continue on to reach their ultimate goal.
Would be a great present for my 80th birthday which comes early next month.
Geaux Tigers.

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And I got you by a year - arrived in '56.

And yes - Jimmy Taylor was THE man - he specialized in

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seeking out defenders to run over.

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One of my favorite quotes was after he went to the Packers - Coach asked him why he veered into a DB on a TD run when he could have gone the other way and walked into the end zone.

Taylor's response = "gotta make 'em hurt a little, coach."

Loved that man - Even given all Cannon's acclaim, it is hard to get over your first love = Jimmy Taylor.

Burrow may do it for me tho.

do you remember then name of that el-cheapo restaurant in Tiger Town ?? just west of the pool hall??

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There was no “every game is televised” back then

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True dat - I was in CA in 60 and in St Louis from 61 - 64. Found out the papers in CA didn't have anywhere near the Sports pages the Advocate had = it was hard to even find the score. In St. Louis I could pick up the game on a station out of Shreveport - but I had to park on the railroad tracks to get good reception. Only had to back off the tracks a couple of times during that tenure there.

Got to NASA in 64 and had no trouble listening to every game after that.

I would diagram every play on a pad of grid paper - wish I'd kept some of those diagrams.

sorry for commenting on so many threads - but LSU is a passion of mine and when someone triggers a memory, it makes me feel good to respond.

G

And just like that, with a simple question, The Rant redeems itself.


I'm only 51, but I wanted in this room.