re: When and Why did you become an LSU Tiger?

When I was a kid, my dad would dress my brother and I up as LSU football players and we'd have to sign the fight song at the church's fall fair every year. I eventually went to LSU.

My "moment of clarity" was when we beat UT in OT in 2000 my frshman year. After we took the field, I realized you can get an education anywhere, but you go to LSU for the football (and baseball).

At birth. Everyone in my family down in Avoyelles parish were LSU fans, but my Dad's youngest brother, who was only 9 years older than me, was the greatest influence. He and I and my younger bro would listen to the Games on Mawmaw's floor on an old radio. That would have been about '60 thru '63 when we moved to NOLa. He had been to Tiger Stadium and described every detail.
When I finally went to school there, it was like I knew the place intimately. already!

My Mom and Dad were married in DeRidder on June 1 of 1948. Dad was born in DeRidder and my Mom in California. Shortly after their marriage, my Dad went back to LSU to get his bachelors degree in Physical Education. He ran the City Park Pool there in Baton Rouge as he was attending classes. I was born in April of 1949--he says they had to call Dad out of class because Mom was in labor. Dad was from a family who loved LSU--in fact, I think my Uncle Bony (Herman Winfred Faulkner) graduated from there, and my Great Uncle, E.G. ("Blake") Blakewood, played on the 1922 LSU football team. Several of Blake's children attended LSU, and one is now a prominent Veterinarian around the Pineville area. As for me--I became an LSU Tiger very early as I listened to games on the radio at my Granmother's house on Division Street in DeRidder. Through the years I have at least listened to games on radio if I could not watch them on TV. You can always tell an LSU Fan if WWL is playing a game and the fan is weeding through the static to hear The Voice (John Ferguson) or (more recently) Jim Hawthorne. A true LSU fan knows the voice of the Tigers and can always discern an LSU game even through the static (around here in the Spacecoast we contend with all sorts of things). Lastly, my son played for LSU--not the University, but on a Little League team in Pensacola.

great story.

cheers to making your family proud as well

My family home was in suburban Shongaloo. The area along the interstate from my house to the metroplex of Shongaloo produced (5) LSU professors (most were relatives---every resident of Shongaloo seems to be a second cousin to everyone else in Shongaloo). No matter where folks went to college, LSU was the flagship university.

My dad played basketball, baseball, and ran track for Fritz Spencer and was the starting point guard on the team with Lyle Lindsey for three of dad's four years.

My earliest memories are of friends and relatives sitting in the living room on Saturday night in the mid-50's, litenening to LSU football. Win or lose I will always be an LSU fan.

So I quess I would say by birth.

1997

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When I went to school in 1995. My first game in tiger stadium was the "Bring back the Magic" game against Auburn. Never gave a shite about LSU before that. Fan for life after.

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EXACT for me as well.

Started at LSU in the fall semester of '83. A native Missourian, I didn't realize what it was all about until I went to my first game in Tiger Stadium. (It was the game they lost to FSU after going up 14-0.) I also remember the DKE's put up a huge banner on the front of their house that read "Clog the Semenholes!"

the day Dinardo signed Faulk