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re: Remember when we were the ones looking up???
Posted on 8/5/12 at 6:58 pm to drizztiger
Posted on 8/5/12 at 6:58 pm to drizztiger
I started really understanding LSU football during the 2000 season; I was 8 years old. My cousins and I would ride on a bus with all of our dads to all the away games and bowl games.
I was 9 years old thinking why is the SEC Championship so big? After we won, I didn't understand why my dad was dancing on tables in excitement.
I remember Tennessee orange filling the Georgia Dome and was completely inthralled by what was the best team I had ever seen.
In my generation's case, we are definitely spoiled. It's hard to understand victory without feeling defeat.
I was 9 years old thinking why is the SEC Championship so big? After we won, I didn't understand why my dad was dancing on tables in excitement.
I remember Tennessee orange filling the Georgia Dome and was completely inthralled by what was the best team I had ever seen.
In my generation's case, we are definitely spoiled. It's hard to understand victory without feeling defeat.
This post was edited on 8/5/12 at 7:00 pm
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 7:05 pm to redtietiger
As much as I love our current success the 93 UA and 97 UF games are still my favorites. Even better than 76 NU and 88 AU.
This post was edited on 8/5/12 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 8/5/12 at 7:20 pm to melonheadla
I d efinitely agree with your response. I graduated from LSU in '72 and I definitely remember the Help Mac Pack bumper stickers. I also remember being in the Dome when Tulane was beating the crap out of LSU and the Tulane fans had signs all over the Dome that said Keep Mac Packed. I was at that '69 Ole Miss game in Jackson. That game cost us the NC and a major bowl. Ignore the idiots on this site that call for Miles head. They are a bunch of kids who are either in high school or wannabe LSU students. The wannabees probably don't know where Allen Hall is and that it has lockers like a high school. GED is probably the school that the posters who blast you, are the alumni of. If you tend to have a speck of intelligence, the GED fan base will attack you. Southeastern is their school of choice because they didn't have the GPA to enter the halls of LSU.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 7:27 pm to uppereast
Distinctly remember all the losses to Bammer for so many years, then the beatdowns from Spurrier & thinking LSU may never be an elite program.
Coach Miles has taken the program to a place we could only dream of once upon a time. I, for one, am really enjoying the ride.
Coach Miles has taken the program to a place we could only dream of once upon a time. I, for one, am really enjoying the ride.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 7:32 pm to TexTgrTed
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then the beatdowns from Spurrier
Had a chance at getting that guy too...damn.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 8:21 pm to uppereast
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Remember when we were the ones looking up???
10 yrs ago is not that hard to remember.
I am enjoying this view much, much better.
It's pretty neat to be seen as one of the best college football has to offer rather than good/mediocre/bad which we were for much of 1975 till 2000.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 8:50 pm to Lonnie4LSU
The 90's do not exist for me for two reasons: 1. My first, AND ONLY, marriage 2. The ineptness of LSU football
Posted on 8/5/12 at 10:49 pm to ElderTiger
To Elder Tiger:
The '69 team is said by many to be the best of the era. I never saw them play, though, being on active duty in the US Army at the time.
The '69 team is said by many to be the best of the era. I never saw them play, though, being on active duty in the US Army at the time.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 7:24 am to Tiger Nation 84
when I was in high school back in the early 90's if you wore anything LSU it had better say LSU BASEBALL instead of LSU FOOTBALL.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 7:39 am to bulldog95
For me, considering actually going to and understanding/following the game (not my parents brining me when I was 4 or 5) it was a few shite years under Hallman, and then the Dinardo years (which looking back was fun), and then started LSU the same year Saban was hired.
So some lean years, but pretty fortunate in the grand scheme.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 8:25 am to melonheadla
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I've been following the Tigers since 1956 at age 11. The many peaks and valleys are part of my life's experiences. Worst was the six straight losing seasons under Archer/Hallman. The best, of course, has been the 21st century.
I went to LSU on the middle 60's and again in the early seventies, and have been a season ticket holder since.
The most important lesson learned in all those years surrounds replacing Coach Charlie MacLendon after the 1979 seaso. "Help Mac Pack," and "ABM" (Anybody But MacLendon) read the bumper stickers. He was replaced by Bo Rein, who tragically died without coaching a game. Then came twenty years of mediocrity, with the exception of 3 years of Bill Arnsbarger's brilliance, until the Nick Saban hire in 1979.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head. This is extremely short sighted, counterproductive to intelligent discourse, and, frankly, stupid.
Surely, there will be less productive seasons than we have recently enjoyed. While not welcomed, such is to be expected.
It should be our quest to support the Tigers regardless of any year's record. I have for 55 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
Forever, LSU
I can not claim the same number of years, but there are a number of us that have been around and lived through the 70's and 80's that appreciate what you say. Some really can't understand, because they haven't lived it. Good post.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 8:32 am to bulldog95
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early 90's
This is when i attended my first game in TS, moving here for a job. Sitting in TS on a Sat night with a garbage bag for a rain coat, yes it was raining that night, watching the Tigers lose the the Gamecocks
Been hooked ever since Posted on 8/6/12 at 8:39 am to dbt_Geaux_Tigers_196
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76 NU
Didn't that game end in a tie? 
Posted on 8/6/12 at 10:15 am to uppereast
I was a fan since the early 80's but really got into it in arnspargers last year and then mike archer and curley. Dinardo brought back the magic and then Saban put us over the top. Les has maintained that so yes I remember the days where we knocked off the giants. Bama 93.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 10:20 am to otowntiger
Yes..3-3 or 6-6, something like that...NU was #1 at the time. It was my first game I attended so it will always be special.
This post was edited on 8/6/12 at 10:21 am
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