re: WE ARE!!!

My condolences.

Here's to you and your dad

So sorry for your loss. We have another angel with purple and gold wings watching over us.

To your dad

I'll think of your dad as the kickoff to a new season arrives! Sounds like a great dad. I was at the 3-0 Alabama game in 1979 (in the rain with my first date with my girlfriend who is now my wife). Now your dad gets to watch the game with the biggest Tiger fan - God!!

My condoences DFT.

I lost my Dad on Feb 2009. Day before Mardi Gras.

It's just not the same during football season without him now. I truly say I can feel your pain and understand.

Toast returned!

Sorry for your loss.&

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Dad, made me what I am today and I will miss him so much. We have somethings in commond that he gave me and its we are TIGERS and they are TIGER BAIT.

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Not to put a downer on this thread, but I didn't have this expereince with my dad. He was a lot less than father of the year. My love of the Tigers comes from my father-in-law who passed away a year ago. "Fortunately," he passed away before the Ole Miss debacle. I can only imagine the cursing and the screaming if he had seen that game.

However, I now have a son who is 32 years old, and we have been going to most all the games since he was four. We have been out of state a few times. I think his first game was Oregon State decades ago. I have his tickets for NC/LSU. We sometimes meet him in Lafayette since he lives in Houston and babysit the two babies while he and my daughter-in-law go to some of the games.

The tradition will continue. My granddaughter is two with her cheerleader outfit, and she has a shirt that reads "I HATE VEGGIES AND BAMA." Last year we were watching an Alabama game while at his house, and he points to the TV with her in his arms. He then tells her, "See, that's Nick Saban. He's the devil. Can you say devil?"

To many of you young fathers on this list, try to find a way to get your kid in the game with you. The older I get, the more i realize that life is about family. The relationship that my son and I have through LSU sports grows by the day. I would absolutely die if I had my grandson play for LSU. More than one time I can rememeber holding my sleeping son in the south endzone waiting for a meaningless game to end. And now, we may ride together for hours going to see Tigers play while we talk about the trivial and the important things in life.

Didn't mean for this to be so long, but the hell with it. LSU sports means a lot to me, and many, many people on this rant. It is much more than a game sometimes. It's the analysis on the radio playing before and after the game. It's the opportunity to tailgate with people I see only a few times a year. It's meeting my same "family" of season ticket holders in the south endzone, and it's the far too few moments that I get to spend with my son screaming at and with the Tigers.

For those of you on the list that want absolute perfection each game and each year, it won't happen. You should be unbeleiveably outraged at the loss, but you need to let it go for the next game with your kid. Remember this. On the day we win or lose, over a billion people in China don't even know we are playing. Surprisingly enough, the sun will rise and set the next day even though we lost. You need to do that for your kid.

To the original post guy, thanks for the chance to refresh my memory about why I like LSU.

Here's to your pops and the Tigers

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you gave me chills. I lost my mother two years ago this week during gustav, and LSU gamedays are my get away. Once i step onto that campus and start talking football, I feel at home and i feel like my mom is looking down on me, my family, and the tigers. God bless all tiger families.