re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr

1957 - when i was born. I have the same season tickets my Dad had since 1949. I remember thinking we were the only ones tailgating in the early '60's. I went to games as a very young boy but the first game that I definitely recall going to and remembering what game it was, probably because we traveled to the game out of town, was the 1966 cotton bowl. I recall having an LSU football uniform and running across my parents bed looking at myself in the dresser mirror and asking my sister if I looked like Joe Labruzzo. I remember Pat Screen and then Nelson Stokely. I had a number 14 jersey that wasn't even LSU colors - it was navy with white numbers and white stripes around the shoulders - that I wore until it was in tatters because it was Stokely's number.
I go pretty far back.
To answer the question, I guess around 1962 when I was 5 I started learning the players and following LSU football closely.

Last season, when I decided I was going to school here.

Nov 12, 2005 went to my first LSU game as a 6th Grader. LSU beat Bama in Tuscaloosa, in overtime. When Jamarcus Russel threw that last touchdown pass to Dwayne Bowe to end it, it rained Alabama hats and cups. It also was when I started hating Bama fans. I had to sit by a smelly drunk Alabama hick the entire game.

2000. I went to my first game that year as a kindergartner.

2001/2002. Whatever year they played Illinois. I remember being flabbergasted that LSU has an offensive linemen in Rohan Davie playing qb.

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When I was a kid the 1981 final four team began my love of LSU. I followed all sports from that point on as well as a kid can.

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Prior to that I was a Tulane fan. Actually won $5 off of one of my dads friends that played for LSU when Tulane won 48 to not enough in 80.

It was in the late 50's. There was many tv channels to watch as there is today so you either listened on the radio or went to the game if you were lucky. I lived in Shreveport then and remember Dad taking me to a stadium at the fairgrounds to watch the Tigers. I remember it poured down rain before the game started and we hid under the stands. Dad was big in the boy scouts then and a guy he knew put us in some seats by the LSU bench. Someone with a better memory than mine might know who we played. We did when the game and just as the game ended he lowered me to the field and I got to tell BC "good game".

Rice I think

1979 I was 5