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re: I'm flashing back to the Tigervision days.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 1:23 am to LivingstonLaw
Posted on 3/21/23 at 1:23 am to LivingstonLaw
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I think we had Larry Matson as the PBP and Bert Jones as our color commentator in the late 80s early 90s. These times were great for me as a kid, but not for LSU, as we would finish 5-6 or 4-7.
I’d make my mom drive to TCI in Denham Springs to get the TigerVision filter, which was this metal cylindrical thing you would screw on to the back of the cable box. It was 34.99 per game. Basketball games were 19.99 per game. Great times.
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I think we had Larry Matson as the PBP and Bert Jones as our color commentator in the late 80s early 90s. These times were great for me as a kid, but not for LSU, as we would finish 5-6 or 4-7.
I’d make my mom drive to TCI in Denham Springs to get the TigerVision filter, which was this metal cylindrical thing you would screw on to the back of the cable box. It was 34.99 per game. Basketball games were 19.99 per game. Great times.
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:16 am to LolStarFishlol
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Troy comeback on Tigervision
I forgot about that one. I try to forget everything about games vs Troy
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:59 am to LivingstonLaw
I LOVED Tigervision back then as a kid. Couldn't go to many games back then and listened to a bunch of them on the radio. So when Pops went to Cox on Friday afternoon and picked up the specific cable box for Tigervision, it was an event. You could also pick up the boxes at 7-11 stores. Resolution wasn't great and the broadcast had ALOT to be desired, but it was an all LSU telecast. LSU people, LSU highlights, LSU pre-game flashback highlights from previous years, and even John Ferguson doing interviews pre-game as well w/Jordy Hultberg as a sideline reporter. It was NOT an ESPN affiliation type broadcast. STRICTLY produced and telecasted by the athletic department. It was seemingly a black-market LSU telecast complete w/it's own cable box and it was GREAT!!
Posted on 3/21/23 at 8:36 am to bazeball
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Back when 40% of the lights in Tiger Stadium didn't work and it always looked dim on TV.
That was truly Death Valley back in the day. Struck fear in the visiting team!
Posted on 3/21/23 at 8:59 am to LivingstonLaw
yep, saw the same waste management company ad the whole game
Posted on 3/21/23 at 9:09 am to LivingstonLaw
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Do you even Jefferson Pilot baw?
Those announcers were the best
Dave, Dave, and Dave FTW
Posted on 3/21/23 at 9:17 am to LivingstonLaw
Thanks for the memories! I loved going to the links and watching the Blue Grass Miracle and the fake FG win over Fla! 
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:04 am to LivingstonLaw
My mother did. She is a LSU graduate, donated yearly, and had season tickets. When they scrambled the signal, she dropped everything LSU, lol.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:10 am to LolStarFishlol
One of the best Tigervision games ever was in 1991, the beginning of the failed Hallman experiment.
LSU was finally back home for its 3rd game of the season, after two ugly blowout losses @ Georgia and @ Aggy. The opponent was Vanderbilt (coached by Gerry Dinardo!), and QB Brad Strohm was in the game for the Tigers, substituting for an injured Chad Loup and an ineffective Jesse Daigle.
With about a minute left in the game Vandy trailed 16-14 but looked very much like a winner, only two yards away from the Tiger goalline. Vandy ran an off-guard dive straight into the LSU line, and lineman Wylin Williams for the Tigers made a SAVAGE hit, resulting in a fumble which went airborne. Williams plucked it out of the air, and started rumbling toward the Vanderbilt goal before running out of steam around the 25 yard line.
Announcer Jim Hawthorne, on the radio broadcast, bellowed out: "Holy cow! You won't see a play like that in a million years!"
I LOVED Tigervision!
LSU was finally back home for its 3rd game of the season, after two ugly blowout losses @ Georgia and @ Aggy. The opponent was Vanderbilt (coached by Gerry Dinardo!), and QB Brad Strohm was in the game for the Tigers, substituting for an injured Chad Loup and an ineffective Jesse Daigle.
With about a minute left in the game Vandy trailed 16-14 but looked very much like a winner, only two yards away from the Tiger goalline. Vandy ran an off-guard dive straight into the LSU line, and lineman Wylin Williams for the Tigers made a SAVAGE hit, resulting in a fumble which went airborne. Williams plucked it out of the air, and started rumbling toward the Vanderbilt goal before running out of steam around the 25 yard line.
Announcer Jim Hawthorne, on the radio broadcast, bellowed out: "Holy cow! You won't see a play like that in a million years!"
I LOVED Tigervision!
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:10 am to St Jean The Baptiste
Dinardo and mike the tiger bank commercial was geauxld
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
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10K goat drink
My Dad almost went to work for this company. Sadly all I got was some free samples they gave him at the interview.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:39 pm to LivingstonLaw
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Do you even Jefferson Pilot baw?
quote:Not gon lie. Man, I miss those days!
Those announcers were the best
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:46 pm to LivingstonLaw
Greg Bowser TYFYS
Posted on 3/21/23 at 4:17 pm to S
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Dinardo and mike the tiger bank commercial was geauxld
Was that the one where Mike ate up all the meat in the butcher shop and had the butcher in the corner cowering like a bitch, or am I thinking of a different commercial? Can't remember if that was DiNardo or Bertman.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 4:20 pm to LivingstonLaw
One of the first,if not FIRST Tiger Vision games. LSU at Alabama, 1982.
1982: LSU at Alabama Legion Field
1982: LSU at Alabama Legion Field
Posted on 3/21/23 at 4:23 pm to I-59 Tiger
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One of the first,if not FIRST Tiger Vision games. LSU at Alabama, 1982.
the game that retired the Bear?
ETA: and sent him to an early grave?
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 3/21/23 at 4:27 pm to LivingstonLaw
I worked for the cable company back then. I can tell you that those Saturday nights were crazy! We all had to work Tigervison games because we would sell so many box’s! Nothing like rolling up to someone’s house with about 30 to 40 LSU fans there and the box isn’t working
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 3/21/23 at 4:29 pm to 777Tiger
Yes
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:25 pm to LivingstonLaw
Don't forget the Curley Golden Flake potato chip commercials
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:26 pm to LivingstonLaw
or just cancel that pathetic shleppah
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