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re: What era was peak Tiger Stadium?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 10:47 am to Tubedog13
Posted on 6/27/25 at 10:47 am to Tubedog13
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The best that I've experienced in person was 97 Florida and 03 Georgia
97 Florida will always be mine because I was a student at the time and we were so back. Yeah, we sucked arse the next 2 years but it was awesome at the time
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Posted on 6/27/25 at 10:52 am to reauxl tigers
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2003-2012. I
Would agree.
Maybe add in 2001 and 2002. Just early enough after a drought of losing seasons that everyone was hungry and before it became so corporate and bland that half thr stadium left early or wasn’t even interested in the game.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 10:52 am to reauxl tigers
The era when fans stayed to the end of the game.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 10:58 am to 777Tiger
ARE YOU 100 YEARS OLD?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:01 am to ThreeYYYz
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ARE YOU 100 YEARS OLD?
not quite but I have an appreciation for LSU sports history that isn’t limited to just “when I was there “
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:01 am to reauxl tigers
2000 - 2014
2000 = the ascent from the doldrums of the 90's into the best era of LSU football
2014 = the last year fans somewhat believed in Les.
Can't speak to the 70's and before. The 80's had some great moments and the stadium stayed full throughout the entire game because there was no real reason to leave (i.e. no one was at the tailgate watching the game and no one had cell phones to be in the loop of what was going on outside the stadium). Outside of 95-97, the 90's mostly blew.
2000 = the ascent from the doldrums of the 90's into the best era of LSU football
2014 = the last year fans somewhat believed in Les.
Can't speak to the 70's and before. The 80's had some great moments and the stadium stayed full throughout the entire game because there was no real reason to leave (i.e. no one was at the tailgate watching the game and no one had cell phones to be in the loop of what was going on outside the stadium). Outside of 95-97, the 90's mostly blew.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:02 am to reauxl tigers
Tennessee game in 2000- Arkansas 2011.
For you youngins, this was a week after losing a homecoming game to UAB in Nick Saban’s first season. Tennessee was probably a top 5 program at the time. We all know what happened about a month after the 2011 Arkansas game.
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For you youngins, this was a week after losing a homecoming game to UAB in Nick Saban’s first season. Tennessee was probably a top 5 program at the time. We all know what happened about a month after the 2011 Arkansas game.
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 11:25 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:04 am to reauxl tigers
1960’s when it was all night games prior to massive TV work arounds.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:06 am to Basura Blanco
quote:I’d actually say that Auburn game was extremely subdued. It was kind of unsettling how quiet the stadium was considering how we just came off the high of the Florida game and Auburn was a threat. Everyone left A&M at halftime.
2019 with Auburn, Florida and Texas A&M
quote:Nothing better than the flash bulbs crackling pregame and right at kickoff.
just about any era pre social media, cell phones, and over saturation of televised sports
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 11:07 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:09 am to reauxl tigers
50s and 60s. Attendance at the start of the game: 67,500. Attendance at the end of the game: 67,500.
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 11:15 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:13 am to reauxl tigers
Pre PVC pipe.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:28 am to reauxl tigers
I'll probably get downvoted, but the answer is the early 1990s. Wins were fewer back then, so the fans just went absolutely nuts when a rare good play did finally did occur. When the winning picked back up again around the mid-1990s, that fan fervor remained but occurred much more often with more big plays to cheer for.
Also, LSU fans usually just showed up in regular street clothes but by the mid-1990s exclusively only wore purple and gold to games.
Tailgating was well known before the early 1990s, but with all of the losing during that era tailgating became much more of a focal point, even to the extent that it was more climactic than the game itself, becoming legendary in the process.
Also, LSU fans usually just showed up in regular street clothes but by the mid-1990s exclusively only wore purple and gold to games.
Tailgating was well known before the early 1990s, but with all of the losing during that era tailgating became much more of a focal point, even to the extent that it was more climactic than the game itself, becoming legendary in the process.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:31 am to reauxl tigers
I think this is probably right, but agree that I am biased as well. 03 Georgia takes the cake for me.
Being a young kid and considering how much more I cared back then, it's been hard for me to find another game that I attended where I felt the same as I did in that moment.
12 Bama was the closest game in my mind that rivaled the Georgia game even though we lost. We pull that game out (get a defensive stop or they miss the FG) and I think it's the greatest game in the history of the stadium.
22 Bama and 24 Ole Miss were also very close.
Being a young kid and considering how much more I cared back then, it's been hard for me to find another game that I attended where I felt the same as I did in that moment.
12 Bama was the closest game in my mind that rivaled the Georgia game even though we lost. We pull that game out (get a defensive stop or they miss the FG) and I think it's the greatest game in the history of the stadium.
22 Bama and 24 Ole Miss were also very close.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:31 am to reauxl tigers
I was a student during 1956 thru 1959 seasons. I do not recall any observable empty seats. Not saying that they were all sell-outs, but I think if there had been a streak of large empty sections someone may have talked about it. Of course the upper sections were not available then.
Hard to imagine anything wilder than the '59 Ol Miss game.
Hard to imagine anything wilder than the '59 Ol Miss game.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:32 am to LNCHBOX
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2003 UGA was something special as well.
For me this is it.
This almost cannot be topped.
We told the world we had arrived.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:34 am to prplhze2000
My dad says Sept 29, 1979 when USC came to town was Tiger Stadium at its all time best. He’s been going to games since 77 so I trust his input
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:35 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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The 1970’s before all of the additions and TV timeouts.
This. No piped music, no halftime mass exodus, etc.
79 USC might be the pinnacle, 82 FSU right there.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:48 am to reauxl tigers
The absolute peak was the Florida game 2007.
I have been going since 1966. Some of the loudest games I’ve been to were when the stadium held 67,500 people.
I have been going since 1966. Some of the loudest games I’ve been to were when the stadium held 67,500 people.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:53 am to reauxl tigers
70’s , 80’s early 90s. Imo just something consistently magical about Tiger Stadium. The key word is consistently. Just my opinion been going since I was about 8 years old was my first game.
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