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re: This goes back a ways...How many of you remember John Ferguson....
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:20 pm to PoppaTiger
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:20 pm to PoppaTiger
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I could never tell how much yardage the tigers had gained with Ferguson. We would pick up 3 yards and he'd make it sound like a 20 yard burst. The other team would gain 20 and he made it sound a 3 yard pickup.
Remember that well! We used to guess the yardage before he said where the ball was spotted. (It would have made a good drinking game, now that I think about it.) quote:My dad used to fish with him sometimes, and I know for a fact that it was more than "A" cold beer. When he was on the 6PM news, he showed a pic of me at about age 9 with a huge "big mouth black bass" I'd caught on a set hook. Man, I thought I was famous!
I used to see Scarse fishing at Old River with his shirt off a big straw hat and a red face and I'm sure a cold beer
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Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:39 pm to TigerTattle
JF was a huge part of my childhood memories of LSU in the 60s....Oh yeah, don't forget the voice of Tiger Stadium....Sid Crocker...
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:41 pm to TigerTattle
John Ferguson will always be the Voice of the Tigers to me.
And yes the AM radio added a mystique.
On night games from Tiger Stadium you could always heard someones voice echoing thru the stadium Goooooooo Tigers.
Sid Crocker deserves a mention in this thread as the voice of Tiger Stadium.
Bob Scarce, yep many of them. We had a camp right up the road at Old River landing ... used to see him all the time.. If he wasn't at Old River, or Camp Bayou Corne then he was offshore with Charlie Hardison Good times
And yes the AM radio added a mystique.
On night games from Tiger Stadium you could always heard someones voice echoing thru the stadium Goooooooo Tigers.
Sid Crocker deserves a mention in this thread as the voice of Tiger Stadium.
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I know for a fact that it was more than "A" cold beer.
Bob Scarce, yep many of them. We had a camp right up the road at Old River landing ... used to see him all the time.. If he wasn't at Old River, or Camp Bayou Corne then he was offshore with Charlie Hardison Good times
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:43 pm to Kajungee
Man, you must be REALLY old.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:46 pm to Carolinacajun
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Man, you must be REALLY old.
sez Grizzly Adams
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:54 pm to Mindenfan
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Agreed! John Ferguson was the real "Voice of the Tigers"
HERE WE frickING GO AGAIN. YOU just HAD to throw that in there you dumb frick! Start that fricking argument AGAIN! YOU SHOULD BE BANNED.
I LOVED Ferguson. Called it like is. Whatever it is, luck or whatever. Hawthorne has called 6 baseball championships 2 football and been involved in so many great games in LSU's history, it is crazy. So IMO he is MY VOICE OF THE TIGERS. Granted I was in school from 1983-1988 and only listend go Ferguson for away games as a kid.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 7:57 pm to Kajungee
We had a camp at Old River Landing and listened to the away games on the radio by fire while my dad, grandpa and others sat around drinking. I laugh thinking about how we leaned toward the radio when the Tigers were about to score, as if that were going to help us hear it better!
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:03 pm to Dinkle
John Ferguson and Walter Hill from Death Valley on Saturday night... it didn't get any better. 
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:07 pm to Dinkle
Great memories. I listened to JF in Columbia, Mo. He was the VOICE of the TIGERS. I remember when the change came about and my baby son came into the room while we were listening to JH. He wanted to know what happened to the announcer. The pitch is a lot different. The Golden voice will always be with us old timers. No comparison. Loved that JF.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:07 pm to oleheat
Outiside of his broadcasting career, John Ferguson was a decorted military pilot and started "Tigers Unlimited". "Tigers Unlimited staretd the endowded scholarship funds and was instrumental in bank rolling several of LSU's improvements to athletics from stadium construction to other paying off the contracts of poor cocaches (Denardo, Etc). I think it is safe to say that without TAF, LSU would be a bad way financially. JF
JF
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:10 pm to Dinkle
Sid Crocker could be heard in the background "Doctor #54 call the Doctor's Exchange". There were no cell phones or pagers.John Ferguson had the best "pipes" ever. I saw him once in the ticket office and we spoke in passing. His voice was a gift. 
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:15 pm to tiger81
I laid on the floor with my ear right by the speaker while my Dad sat in his chair and we both listened to JF call the games. I remember Sid Crocker also. "Doctor's exchange calling...." No cell phones!!!
Bob Scarce-The Old Beach Comber. Man, he hit the beer!
Bob Scarce-The Old Beach Comber. Man, he hit the beer!
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:21 pm to oleheat
Agreed! John Ferguson was the real "Voice of the Tigers"
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:30 pm to oleheat
As a little boy, my dad and I would listen to him. With 6 kids, my dad would go to the living room on the opposite side of the house from the family-tv room. He said if I was real quiet, I could stay and listen to the game with him. I did that for ten years.
My dad was one of those men who used to wear coat and ties to the football games. Now at 85, we watch them on TV together.
Classic radio voice Mr. John had.
My dad was one of those men who used to wear coat and ties to the football games. Now at 85, we watch them on TV together.
Classic radio voice Mr. John had.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 8:46 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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ep, when I was young. Had a small a.m. radio and used to listen to the games, one of my first memories of college football.
I listened to many games on a small radio that would fit in my shirt pocket as as stood watch, when I was in the US Navy. I listened to WWL in ports all along the East Coast. The mention of Walter Hill jogged my memory, "Listen to the post game show brought to you by the Ground Patty".
Posted on 8/23/10 at 9:23 pm to tigerswin03
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he didnt make the billy cannon holloween punt return call for some reason. any one know why.
WJBO lost the contract as the flagship station for LSU football for two years in 1958 and 1959 to WAIL radio in Baton Rouge, thus the voice of J.C. Politz and not John Ferguson for Billy Cannon's Halloween night run.
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John Ferguson, LSU Tigers From 1946–1987, LSU fans heard Louisiana native John Ferguson’s baritone pipes belting out the action live from Death Valley. An Army Air Corps pilot in World War II, Ferguson also served as a voice for the New Orleans Saints. In 2005, Ferguson died at the age of 86.
This post was edited on 8/24/10 at 8:28 am
Posted on 8/23/10 at 9:31 pm to oleheat
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How many of you remember John Ferguson....
....as the "Voice Of The Tigers"?
Count me in. Have great memories as a kid of listening to John Ferguson on an old AM radio sitting around the kitchen table at home with my dad in the 70s in Mississippi.
It was always a treat to live the pause between hearing John cry out "FUMBLE...and there's a BIG scramble for the ball...and the Tigahs have recovered!!!"
Those were the days.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 9:37 pm to oleheat
I remember him. Great announcer back in the day...
But he would get blasted and abused by rantards.
But he would get blasted and abused by rantards.
Posted on 8/23/10 at 9:45 pm to Skillet
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remember John Ferguson and Walter Hill, they were great...If you had a camp at Old River surely you remember "The Old Beach Grinder" Bob Scarce.
That would be "The Old Beach Comber"
Posted on 8/23/10 at 9:45 pm to LSU0596
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DadAnd I used to sit on the back patio in Magnolia Ar. He would have his Budweiser and Winstons going
OMG this was my Dad as well, only substitute Schlitz for the beer & Vantage for the cigs.
Hell, I bet my lifespan was shortened a fair amount from those smoke-filled fall Saturday nights in the kitchen listening to JF call LSU games.
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then blew out FSU and bowden for the Orange bowl bid. I remember John Ferguson yelling "the fans are throwing Oranges on the field!". The way he described it the field was covered in oranges.
Remember that game well...I was one of of the fools throwing oranges.
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Now those were two memories of LSU football and time spent with my Dad I will never forget!
Amen, brotha.
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