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re: Rank 5 greatest games in Tiger Stadium History
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:23 pm to vl100butch
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:23 pm to vl100butch
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Notre Dame 1971 to my mind was the greatest game ever played in Tiger Stadium....
Nice article from Sports Illustrated.
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Over in a quiet Notre Dame dressing room Parseghian stubbornly insisted that the "tremendous crowd noise had no effect on me or my players." When that was reported to McClendon, the potato-faced coach winked. "Well, I'll bet they never played in a place where the fans are so close up," he said. "And where they are so, uh, en-thu-si-as-tic."
Potato-faced...
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Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:25 pm to austintexastiger
I was a senior in 1979. The USC game (for anyone who really knows the history of LSU football) easily ranks in the top 5 games of all times in Tiger Stadium, even with a loss. It may have been the loudest game in Tiger Stadium history. Only the 97 UF game is comparable to the noise level, but what separates the two games was the noise level for the 79 USC game was for the entire game. What I can't remember, and someone can comment on, was if the old west upper deck finished and opened in 1979 or not. I know they started construction in August of 1975, because as a freshman I had to move out of West Stadium a week after starting school because they had to close the dorm for the construction.
I will tell you how loud it was, they easily had 22,000 students crammed in the student section. Every spot on the aisles and steps in the student section was crammed with students standing. There were student tickets back then, or ways to count the number of students let in. No one sat down the entire game. I lost my voice for two weeks, damaging my vocal chords. I had ringing in my ears afterwards for about 5 days. I didn't have that after going to see The Who.
I still see the phantom facemask in my head and its been 30 years....
I will tell you how loud it was, they easily had 22,000 students crammed in the student section. Every spot on the aisles and steps in the student section was crammed with students standing. There were student tickets back then, or ways to count the number of students let in. No one sat down the entire game. I lost my voice for two weeks, damaging my vocal chords. I had ringing in my ears afterwards for about 5 days. I didn't have that after going to see The Who.
I still see the phantom facemask in my head and its been 30 years....
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:30 pm to TBCommish
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The fact that the 79 USC was a loss and yet with all threads like this, this game ranks in the top lists, says how good that game really was.
Yet some people on the Rant insist that all of the players, coaches, writers, people who attended the game, etc. are crazy to speak so fondly of it?
I've never come across one person who attended the '79 game and said, "It was okay. Nothing special."
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:34 pm to 1979grad2
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What I can't remember, and someone can comment on, was if the old west upper deck finished and opened in 1979 or not.
That's where I was sitting...I was a little kid, but I believe that was its first year.
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I lost my voice for two weeks, damaging my vocal chords. I had ringing in my ears afterwards for about 5 days. I didn't have that after going to see The Who.
Thank you - that's a fantastic comparison.
I try to tell people how it was a football experience like no other. Closest I've ever came to it was the Superdome homecoming - but obviously that was a lot more than just an NFL game.
This post was edited on 5/23/09 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:51 pm to austintexastiger
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The USC game was loud from beginning to end - most games have moments that are loud but not the entire game
Yeah, I listened to that game on the radio and it was really difficult to hear the announcers, even though they were talking at the tops of their voices.
I know young people hate to hear this, but Tiger Stadium really is not the intimidating place that it used to be. Not even close.....
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:55 pm to ChuckDockery
Auburn 88- Earthquake game.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 3:59 pm to Tigergreg
Anyone who was there knows...LSU - USC 1979 period. Greatest sporting event of my lifetime in person. 
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:02 pm to BrockLanders
It's funny how non of ya'll list any games against Alabama, probably because there was a 31 year stretch where LSU never beat Alabama in Tiger stadium.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:02 pm to tiger81
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Greatest sporting event of my lifetime in person.
No question about it.
I know there's one guy on here who was a member of the press at the time - he got to watch Muhammad Ali fight ringside for a championship and interview him afterwards - and he still thought the USC game was the single greatest sporting event he'd ever witnessed.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:03 pm to outlawjoe
We've won in Birmingham and Tuscalooser like it's OUR homefield there Tider. 
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:04 pm to outlawjoe
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It's funny how non of ya'll list any games against Alabama, probably because there was a 31 year stretch where LSU never beat Alabama in Tiger stadium.
You're just trying to start something.
Would you consider any of the 6 Auburn wins in a row over Alabama before last year to be "great" games?
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:05 pm to 1979grad2
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Every spot on the aisles and steps in the student section was crammed with students standing. There were student tickets back then, or ways to count the number of students let in. No one sat down the entire game.
I don't recall student tickets. We got in with our student ID cards back then. They'd punch your card at the gate with the corresponding game number. Some dudes went to LSU only in the fall so they could get an ID card and free admittance to the games. I've seen a couple hundred games in Tiger Stadium and that USC game was easily the best ever.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:05 pm to tiger81
I have several of the games mentioned here on DVD.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:09 pm to Tigergreg
Correct, there were no student tickets at that time, you showed your ID and got in. I remember being in line outside the gate before the USC game, the girls were passing out because you couldn't move we were packed so tight. They'd pass out and not hit the ground, just fall on the person standing next to them. Then the game, loudest sports crowd in the history of man.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:16 pm to tiger81
That was a typo on my part...should have been NO student tickets.....
Just punched the end of outr student IDs with the " V " punch.
I never heard of student tickets until my kids got to LSU
Just punched the end of outr student IDs with the " V " punch.
I never heard of student tickets until my kids got to LSU
Posted on 5/23/09 at 4:16 pm to Cornholio
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When we blocked that Bama FG, Tiger Stadium was deafening. Unbelievable. Words cannot desribe that moment. Even though we went on to lose the game, that is a moment I will never forget.
Getting to go to that game was a pretty sweet sixteeth bday present, and our seats were on the LSU sideline, like 18th row, and tht field goal was almost right in front of us, the picks six was literally right in front of us unfortuantely
Posted on 5/23/09 at 5:12 pm to BrockLanders
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Closer to ten Hall Of Fame members, I think...
If there was 1 college team that had 10 future NFL Hall of Famers on it we'd know
What I've found is 4, which btw is a LOT for 1 college team.
Marcus Allen
Ronnie Lott
Bruce Mathews
Anthony Monuz
11 that went to the NFL.
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This post was edited on 5/23/09 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 5/23/09 at 6:09 pm to ChuckDockery
AU '87
Ohio St (88?)
Ohio St (88?)
Posted on 5/23/09 at 6:29 pm to lsubeer
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Ohio St (88?)
87.
88 was in the shoe.
Posted on 5/23/09 at 6:47 pm to ChuckDockery
IMO, two of the most famous/exciting games in Tiger Stadium history are:
1972 - Jones to Davis, 1 second left, BEAT OLE PISS
1971 - Bert Jones defeats Notre Dame, goal posts come down.
Guess I am older than you guys, but so what!
1972 - Jones to Davis, 1 second left, BEAT OLE PISS
1971 - Bert Jones defeats Notre Dame, goal posts come down.
Guess I am older than you guys, but so what!
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