Memories of Wisconsin

Melvin Gordon running roughshod.

The trip was great getting to watch the game at Lambeau Field and see the Wisconsin Jump Around ( kind of cool). This game began Mile’s coffin nails. I was at Auburn later that year when Les’s clock management put the last nail in his coffin. We were much better than either one of those teams that beat us.

Best 8-4 team ever

The melt after that game was one of the most epic in the history of TD...

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My trip to see LSU play Wisconsin in Madison when I was a student at LSU (early 1970s) was epic. I have never, in any venue before or since, seen such fan animosity toward our team and fans as that day in Madison. When our team ran onto the field, they were pelted with booze bottles, beer cans, cold drinks, fruit, etc. It was pretty embarrassing for them.

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That's true. However the animosity was based on the well-publicized fact that LSU's team was 100% melanin-challenged at the time. The UW student newspaper made a huge deal about this during the preceding week. Lora Hinton would only sign with the Tigers the following year, in 1971. We hosted Wisconsin the same year and after the game the Badger football players made the point that the LSU players were very sportsmanlike and didn't deserve the criticism of the previous year.

Lived in Madison Wisconsin for one Summer, performing with the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps on their Summer D.C.I. Tour. (That's my Wisconsin background)

Mostly lived on the Bus and performance site practice locations at area high schools and colleges. We stayed overnight in Dorms and on high school gym floors in sleeping bags.

I'm sure only TBA's and current GBFTL's on here know about D.C.I. and the Madison Scouts.....

There i was, lambeau, home of Lombardi and the sweep, jimmy taylor proudly displayed, beer, brats, we took the official stadium tour, I purchased a gb cap it was a spiritual experience for me, then les miles lead my team onto the field

Went to the 2014 and 2016 games against Wisconsin. 2014 was high drama with how it ended on the Diarse and Hilliard TD's. Being at Lambeau in 2016 is one of my fondest sports memories. The game itself was absolutely pathetic and Les should have been fired on the field for that shite.

I'll never forget being at Lambeau & waiting to see what our first play call was - hoping to see play action with our new "dynamic" offense.. Nope, toss dive left to Fournette.

Everyone we were with just burst out laughing.

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Wasn’t that the summer of big promises of how they’d open up the offense?

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I believe so... but every summer was like that back then. Harris had good bowl game showing so expectations were high and then reality hit the following season.