re: Question for the older Tiger Fans:

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There were obscenities, mostly from drunks.

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Even in the student section this was true. Most guys didn't curse much in front of girls. But society in general has changed in this regard.

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There was no organized obscene cheer, except for Go to Hell, Ole Miss, Go to Hell.

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"Hot boudin
Cold Cous Cous
Come on Tigers
Beat the shite out of em!"

That's the only "organized" one I recall.

And we saw buttons that said Tuck Fulane.

I was there '78-'81 seasons.

Bull$&!+ chant at refs for bad calls!! Loud enough to be heard on TV.

There was a far greater degree of decorum. For sure there were drunken idiots, but the student section did not engage in orchestrated vulgarity let alone the greater part of fandom.

I don't like it but it's a different generation these days...i blame some of this on the way kids are raised today...their parents have no morals and neither do their kids...
Unfortunately four letter words and cursing are the norms today in our society...it all starts at home and how you were raised
If your looking for things to get better you don't live in the real world

its never been a Leave it to Beaver episode. But no one is pretending anymore. Vulgarity is expessed more freely and more often.

Even in the '50's "go to hell" was not a big deal. I do remember some people objected to "go to hell Notre Dame" as being religiously offensive or even sacrilegious, as an insult to the mother of Jesus rather than against the school. That was about '71 before the first ND game in tiger stadium

In the '50's when Rice was legit and nearly a power, the chant was
"What comes out of a Chinaman's arse? Rice, Rice, Rice."

According to the history books, when LSU played Havana around 1899 or 1900, the cheer was "Lick the spics". The crowd at the game was comprised of locals and off duty military stationed there after the war. Not many if any LSU students or fans. Forget the name of the author of that early history of LSU football and I don't have it in front of me. Maybe Pete Fiinney.

At least ten times a game you would hear in a serious tone by the announcer, "______ _____, please report to LSU police." The hoodlum in me could never understand why someone would turn themselves in. Not thinking it could be a lost kid or purse or something. Anyway, there were a lot more fights back then and just as much profanity albeit not an organized chant.

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I grew up in Tiger Stadium. There were a few drunken idiots, mostly in the student section, but in SE it was a lot of "Dude! Chill out there are kids around!". I do not remember hearing the F word in the stadium, but in general, people didn't cuss as much overall.

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It was a different time. I rarely heard my parents curse. Even my Dad who is no snowflake and a Navy Veteran. Before TV, games started at 8pm and were over by 10:30pm my parents used to dress up for the games. It was a different era.

When I started going to games back in the '70's it was still much tamer than today. The student section was pretty wild but no chants like today. We went to SELU game and the piped in music is irritating and obscene. Maybe they can just stop that.

All in all it was a different time and there's no going back.

In my experiences at Tiger stadium during the 70’s and 80’s especially, you had your occassional fight break out with drunks in the stands, and some low rent drunk arse hat saying something or doing something disrespectful around people, but you never heard anything chanted so disrespectfully by students or adults, and certainly what trashy behavior did go on back then was never celebrated or encouraged, but rather ended pretty fast by security.

I remember going to basketball games as a kid in the late 80’s/early 90’s and it was scandalous when the student section chanted “bullshite” at bad calls.