re: What was so great about the 79 USC vs. LSU game

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Like someone said, you got in by showing your ID. No tickets to buy. Just show up.

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That's correct. They punched a hole in your ID and you got in. I think there was a limited number of students they would let in (for a normal game, that is). But what I'm talking about is that the space reserved for students seemed bigger then than it does now.

…db Jeff Fisher, rb Marcus Allen, ot Brad Budde…

Btw, both White and Allen won the Heisman.

yes it was Budde that said the romper room quote

I was at the game. I was 10 but remember the game well. I also have it on VHS. We should have won. Then you could have arguably called it the biggest win in TIger Stadium history. Oh well, if if if

I was in Boy Scouts at the time and had been ushering games for two years and would go on to usher until 1983. The USC game and Alabama games in 1979 were the two greatest games I have ever seen LSU lose. The atmosphere at the USC game was one that I had not seen until that game and have only experienced a handful of times since. Everyone was on the edge of their seats the entire game and most of the time standing up. There were a large contingent of USC fans in my section, and I remember them asking if this is how it always was. I told them to enjoy it because they would never be in a better stadium. Even at 11 I knew Tiger Stadium was special. These folks enjoyed the game and I still have some buttons we swapped after the game. I was really dissappointed we lost, and felt we were the better team that night. But I was very proud of how we fought against such a great team. It is great that now we win most of the close ones instead of coming up short. It definitely ranks as one of my top 5. I can't rank it higher because we did not win. If we would have it would be number 1.

My oldest brother asked me to be his best man for his wedding, of course I said sure. Well it was the day of this game. I told him you better stay married to this woman because you're going to make me miss this game and if ya'll split I will never let you forget it.

Anyway.............you guessed it, they divorced 6 years later.

I call him every September 29th to remind him he made me miss the greatest game in LSU Football history for nothing! I have never missed one 29th. If I die before he does I will make 79 Jr. call his arse.

If Tracy Porter or Orlando McDaniel would have caught one of those Hail Mary's in the back of the NEZ at the end of the game, they would have had to rebuild Tiger Stadium

the student section had about 5,000 more students than seats for this game and as i recall there was some kind of crack down on this after the game because of fire code violations

I was there on a 5 dollar youth ticket, south end zone upper deck section U 17.

The place rocked and we won that damn game. The score may have been 17-12, but we won that damn game.

The stadium still reverberates from that night.

Too bad y'all couldn't have seen it.

Best night ever in Death Valley and it was a Loss.

How do you figure that?