re: what was your first experience at tiger stadium?

Notre Dame - 1971.

My first game ever was free tickets from my moms company. We were poor and her company was giving away tickets to the Arkansas game one year because it was cold and STORMING that day. I went with my cousin, we sat on the second row between the 40's and it STORMED hard. We would have never been able to afford tickets, especially 2nd row. We couldn't see over the players so we stood on the seats... some regulars hassled us, some regulars hassled the people hassling us so we stood on the seats most of the game.

Lived in North Stadium there one year (junior year) 1984-85. We called it "The Rock" (like Alcatraz).

--Hall bathrooms only; thankfully RIGHT when we were moving in they added stalls to the rows of toilets and showers. Before that it was wide open for anyone in that big bathroom to see when you were taking a dump or a shower.

-- Shower heads were low-flow; someone broke one or removed it and it just had a nice strong flow of water coming out of the pipe/tube that didn't spread like a shower does. That became the preferred shower stall, and those on the floor took to calling taking a shower in that stall "running the tube".

-- NO air-conditioning, but at least ceiling fans were put in the year before. With the ceiling fan and the windows open, it wasn't that bad other than the first few weeks and the last couple of weeks of the academic year. It was, however, worse than Pentagon where I lived the following year, because Pentagon dorms had higher ceilings than North Stadium.

-- At night, with the windows open, we would often hear Mike the Tiger roaring across the street. Sometimes he would roar so loud he would wake us. One of the coolest memories of living there.

-- There were a couple of openly gay students living on our floor; the rest of the guys on the floor treated them okay and didn't give them any problems and would talk to them. My roommate and I once played a racquetball doubles games against them; before the game he and I referred to the game as "the heteros vs. the homos" and swore we wouldn't lose, so as to uphold the good name of straight men everywhere. We defeated them pretty easily.

-- We had meals in the basement cafeteria of Hatcher Hall. One of the female on-campus job student workers there we first called "Milk Lady". But she actually became part of our group and would go with us to see shows, go to parties with us, etc.

-- I NEVER got up in time for breakfast at the dining hall. but our RA (who also became a good friend) would always come down to our room, bang on our door and get my roommate to go, but only on those days when the Hatcher cafeteria was serving pancakes, with this simple phrase:(knock knock knock) "STEVE!!!! CAKES!!!"

-- We got cable in the spring semester in the dorms.

October 5, 1963. 7-6 Pat Screen-fueled win over a then-powerful Georgia Tech program led by Bobby Dodd.

Bama early nineties. A story that would be repeated many times over in my lifetime.

October 4, 1958 LSU beat Hardin-Simmons. I will never forget walking into Tiger Stadium thru the Portal and seeing the field for the first time. I had no idea grass could be that green.

Mine was '06 against Virginia Tech, I was a senior in HS and it was my first college football game ever, including the gameday experiences. I had a blast tailgating and pregaming. Drank whiskey hidden in a friend of a friend's wooden globe in their the dorm.(felt like special whiskey, but I'm sure it was cheap. LSU, as many of you remember, ended up stomping them. By the fourth quarter it was so bad the crowd was shaking their keys and screaming "OVER...RATED." It was so special going on to win the Natty that year too. Such a good year of my life. Wish I could go back.

1996 LSU Houston, Kevin Faulk ran for the circumference of the state

Tnx for the stadium dorm memories!

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Colorado state loss

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Loss my virginity after that one in 92.

It just happened to be a win against Colorado State in 1985 was my first game as well.

Kelly Stouffer was QB stater in 85 game for Colorado State