re: No more fights in the stands at Tiger Stadium?

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Are today's college guys just a bunch of pussies and openly bisexual?

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Funny way to put it, but this is basically it. Masculinity is on the decline in America. My dad, AND MY WIFE, have been thrown out of Tiger Stadium. I can grow a hair on my palm. Do you think these college pussies can?

Another theory is that they leave at halftime, before they get really pissed off. This interferes with my previous self-serving theory, but could be correct.

Not to steal your thunder but i think all the fans of both teams make it back alive from all 12 games that involved lsu.

Or maybe we are civilized and know how to handle ourselves at a public venue? We can’t say STTDB because it is a bad example for the little ones but seeing drunk people fight and getting thrown out is the perfect role model?

It mostly has to do with the fact if you get in a fight now it will be recorded by someone’s phone. There are some people in our section that would definitely fight if given the chance. But in the 80’s and early 90’s you could always count on one for a night game.

I remember before a Florida game some Florida fans had a large bed sheet with something Florida on it. They started walking through the stands about an hour before kickoff towards the student section. An LSU student snuck up behind them and stole it and was running to the student section with them chasing them to get it back. They got close to the student section and everyone was ready to fight them. Didn’t happen but it was a great drunken college memory.

That happened in 2009 when i was a freshman. We had smartphones then.

YEP, it happened two seats over from me. Guy was drinking way too much hard liquor and was just goIng on the typical Les Miles rant. He used some choice words the family in front of him didn’t appreciate and they asked him to chill out after listening for the entire game. Then... boom, punches are thrown and I’m in the middle breaking it up and getting some shots in after getting a nice shot from being in the middle like a dumb arse.

Millenials, amirite?

Late eighties early nineties, seemed like at least two fights every game...at least one of them in the Greek section. Seems like the greeks are much dorkier (looking) these days from what I remember. Maybe there’s a connection?

...or maybe they’ve just moved their fighting to the parade grounds, pregame.

There were some good fights in Tiger Stadium in the late 80s. The most violent sporting event I have ever attended was in West Virginia. I worked in the mining industry for a few years in the 90s. We were given tickets to Ohio State vs West Virginia in Morgantown 1998. Sold out, SRO, national TV. Night game. I personally witnessed no less than 30 fights. OSU fans are pricks. The worst I have ever seen. At the pre-game tailgates the OSU fans were provoking the WVU folks with incest taunts. The WVU folks, fueled by homemade 'Mountain Dew' were ready to respond. In the stadium the fans were intermixed. It was a European soccer riot.

Cell phones reduce fighting. In the good old days you push, throw a few punches, and ice yourself down the next day. It's over. Today, the videos of your scuffle go viral, police find out, your boss finds out, you lose your job or some such. Better just to chill

Ha. It was really bizarre that all the sudden a few cup with drink and ice came raining down and everyone in my section was like "da frick?" only to look up above and see a full blown brawl going on. My view was someone obstructed because of the overhang of the SEZ, but it still gave me flashes to the good ole days of Tiger Stadium.