What's your story? - How did you become a fan?

Yeah, because being interested in how people became fans is worse than the 1500 "JJ thought popped in my head" threads that we've had today.

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TigerRad

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You sound like you had a very privledged childhood.. I'm just some RP country bumpkin who grew up pulling for LSU because it was fun. I went to an LSU game with my older brother's then girlfriend when I was in the 6th grade, and I was hooked after that! The game was against Ole Miss. My Dad always felt that he should have played for LSU football and he is really obnoxious and a rantard about LSU football!!!

I was a basketball brat growing up so I really didn't know about or care about LSU football growing up. I was all basketball. My brother however went to LSU, and use to always tell me about how cool the games were. Well as an adult, he and I started going to one home game a year which was usually a money game, then it became one SEC game a year. Then in 2003 we got season tickets. Then we started going to one road game a year. It was something that he and I always looked forward to, and for me it was just awesome to spend time with my brother, the game was just a bonus. I actually remember missing Skylar Green catching the pass against UGA in 03 because the second Mauk threw the ball I began jumping and screaming and hugging my brother TD TD TD! It was great. We lost our season tickets a year after he died a couple years back. Since then I went back to the one game a year routine. And look forward to bringing my son to the games when he's old enough. Who I also named after my brother.

Father was a huge LSU football fan (still is, though an EPIC negatiger). I started listening to games on the radio since before I can remember well, 2 or 3 certainly. I was allowed to curse as a child ONLY in the "Geaux to H*ll, Ole Miss, Geaux to H*ll" - and modified for Notre Dame in '70 and '71.

I had an old, old school LSU pennant on my wall as a kid. I'm assuming my dad got it at a game in the late 50s or 60s. I cannot remember not having it - although, sadly, I'm not 100% sure where it is right now.

I never seriously considered another school for undergrad or law school - I have both degrees from LSU, though I also attended the Defense Language Institute for the Army (Happy Birthday US Army), as well as LSU-A right out of high school.

I try to attend at least 1 game per year, and when I was a student, I rarely missed a game. I have followed LSU baseball, basketball and track and field, as well as alumni in other sports and fields (Shaq, Will Wright, Bill Conti, David Thoms, Dr. James Andrews), but I am primarily an LSU football fan.

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My Dad always felt that he should have played for LSU football

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Is this your dad?

Grew up with in 5 miles of campus.

Went to my first game when I was 6 or 7.

I swam for the LSU Bengals AAU team that practiced at the Huey P. Long pool so I spent many hours on campus at a very young age.

My dad was an alum and huge fan.

I could go on and on....sold peanuts in the stadium when I was 10.

I was a diehard LSU fan long before I went to college.

My great great great great great great great great...grandfather made the Louisiana purchase.

My great, great.....grandfather founded LSU.

All of my ancestors played multiple sports at LSU.

I was born in the NEZ and delivered by Mike the Tiger.

I went to U High and then LSU, where I played football, basketball and baseball. I was also in the Tiger Band. Halftime was rough.

I got 4 masters degrees and PhD from LSU.

I now live walking distance to LSU in a purple and gold house and work in the student union in addition to being a professor at LSU.

LSU alum - '88-'93 ... pretty much that simple!

LSU degrees in the family:
Me - 1
Wife - 1
Everybody in my wife's family - 4
Nobody else in mine (we're carpetbagging Yankees)