re: I was 4 years old in 1979 for USC @ LSU in Tiger Stadium ...

Loudest game I remember..we got jacked by the refs

Re the ticket demand, driving across the Basin hrs before the game, cars after cars passed by with people holding signs outside the windows, most with the $ sign & the word tickets. Never saw that again, before or afterwards. That USC team had 5-6-7 first round draft choices .Post game, their All American OL said "this game makes playing N.Dame in S,Bend seem like Romper Room. This was insane". Marcus Allen: " as we passed, like inches away, that Tiger in his cage by our tunnel, they goosed him & he almost came through his cage. Most of our players had never seen a Tiger before & a few came close to pissing their pants". Post game, no one was leaving the stadium & "LSU LSU LSU" was rocking T.S.

Great Game I Was There.

It was my first LSU game. I was 10 years old working as a Boy Scout usher in the old nosebleed section. Been hooked ever since.

Every post above is accurate. I'd been to the soaking wet 3-0 game against Alabama with my future (and still) wife. She kept asking if we could leave. We stayed until the end. But that game was nothing compared to the USC game. Was at that game with a different girl (still unmarried then), but barely said a word to her. No one above has exaggerated about the atmosphere. The Tigers fought tooth and nail. Hardest hitting game I have ever attended. The tigers never quit. Deafening the entire game. The screaming might have paused momentarily, but my ears were ringing so much I couldn't tell. Refs blew the call; nothing you can do except let them know. And boy did that stadium let them know.
Quote from Greatest Game From Every Season:1979:
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Ronnie Lott called the scene one of the greatest of his career, “Every one of us left that night saying ‘that was a game, ‘ but I still think about it that way. I haven’t been in an event like that at any level of football. Out of all the games I’ve ever played in, I’ve never been in anything like that, and I am including my Super Bowls in that assessment.”

I worked at Wendy's on Causeway in 1978 - Mardi Gras Day 1979. Were you working there then? Who are you?

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Went to the game at 19 years old. Had 2 tickets and was offered 200 dollars apiece but turned em down. That was a lot of money back in those days, especially for a college student. Took a teammate of mine from Texas to the game and it was an incredible night. The phantom face mask called on Benjy T was bullshite. My Texas friend still talks about his one and only Tiger Stadium experience was the greatest game he has ever seen in person. He has chosen to not go back to Tiger Stadium since he thinks the USC 79 game was incomparable.

I was there. The refs were Pac 10 refs. The stole the game from us, PERIOD!

“It’s not like I held on and his head got jerked to the ground,” Thibodeaux said. “It was going to be fourth down. I was sitting there in stunned silence as to what was going to happen. We had a great opportunity to close out the game perhaps. There was a feeling, ‘Oh, they’re going to do this to us.’ We could have still won the game. It was like, ‘Damn, let’s keep playing’.”

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