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engl6914
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Natchez, Miss.
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Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?

Just reading the thread regarding crowd noise high marks at TS. We have at TS what amounts to a legend in its own time. Other SEC fans have heard and wonder about the place. I remember Ath Director Dietzel 30 years ago proposing a new stadium down Nicholson because TS was so maintenance heavy. That proposal was met with an embarrassing silence and later Dietzel was shown the door.
So what will it look like there in 500 years? Like the downtown Rome coliseum ruins with signs indicating the remains of showers (yes, that's what they used back then) and with a new stadium by the river or on central campus, or the same stadium with a dome and AC added and a Mitsubishi hi-def TV hanging down?
I ask this because TS is central to the lore of LSU. It's like a temple. Maybe Mitchie Stadium at West Point, The Big House, or Notre Dame Stadium could be talked about the same way. Maybe. Griffin Stadium in Gainesville? I dunno. I do know part of what I pay to TAF goes to stadium maintenance, but I pay it cheerfully. No dog in this fight. Just wondering what some feel about it.


RummelTiger
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Texas
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
I get what you're saying here, and have often wondered something similar.

For instance, I think about the very first teams we had and how awesome it would be if they could see what Tiger football has become.

So, where will it all be in another 100+ years is crazy to think about.


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HonoraryCoonass
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
She’ll be 100 in a couple of years.


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LSUShock
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Kansas
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
It's not just Tiger Stadium, but all of the great campus stadiums in college football. They have a folk lore status and almost act as a time machine between old and new. It's like a grandson who never met his grandfather can share a sense of commonality when they walk into these old beasts.


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Ping Pong
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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So what will it look like there in 500 years?


probably a mile into the Gulf of Mexico by then


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genuineLSUtiger
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Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
I think 100 years from now football in it’s present form will be a thing of the past. Teens in 2122 will crawl into the ruins to smoke weed/drop acid and regale each other with stories of the games once played there back in the past two centuries.


tigersbh
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Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
8165 posts

re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
I, like some of you even lived in Tiger stadium. Those old dormitories have become an urban legend to some people. Yes, some people don’t believe that they were once dormitories.


Basura Blanco
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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I think 100 years from now football in it’s present form will be a thing of the past.


This to an extent. They will kill the current version in the next 20-30 years for some version of 7 on 7 flag football.

Hopefully, another generation will come along and realize their predecessors were a bunch of pussies and realize grown arse men have free will and if they feel they can handle a dozen concussions before they are thirty for a few million bucks a year, who are they to argue.


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Basura Blanco
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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Yes, some people don’t believe that they were once dormitories.


My first game as a kid was in 1975 in the home opener against A&M. Some dude that looked to be forty years old with a beard hung a bedsheet out of one of the stadium dorm windows with a crude drawing of something sexual that my 8 year old mind could not comprehend, but had my Dad laughing for ten minutes.

Jump ahead to 1985 and my first game as a student at LSU, some dude that looked exactly the same (hell it might have been the same guy) hung a bedsheet out of a stadium dorm window that had KERWIN BELL SUCKS COCK painted on it.

My biggest regret in life was not living there my freshman year. My broke arse chose un-air conditioned Hodges instead.


I-59 Tiger
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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Jump ahead to 1985 and my first game as a student at LSU, some dude that looked exactly the same (hell it might have been the same guy) hung a bedsheet out of a stadium dorm window that had KERWIN BELL SUCKS COCK painted on it.


That paid off when then winning a misleading 20-0 game. Should have been 38-0. Any your other one was 39-8 disaster.

DO NOT BRING A SHEET TO THE GAME SATURDAY!!


Basura Blanco
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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That paid off when then winning a misleading 20-0 game. Should have been 38-0. Any your other one was 39-8 disaster.

DO NOT BRING A SHEET TO THE GAME SATURDAY!!


We are all glad that Im pretty much done with "firsts" as an LSU fan.


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Gravitiger
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
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I remember Ath Director Dietzel 30 years ago proposing a new stadium down Nicholson
Dietzel was AD in 1992?


HarsinVol
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Auburn AL
Member since Oct 2022
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
What about the "grown arse men" who aren't even 18 yet?


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Ironhead985
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re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
Physical activity will probably be outlawed within 100 years


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engl6914
LSU Fan
Natchez, Miss.
Member since Aug 2008
386 posts

re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
[quote]Dietzel was AD in 1992?[/

A fault of memory. He was AD here from 1978-1982. I should've looked it up, though it's close enough.


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GBFTL 8yr75gm
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Member since Aug 2022
209 posts

re: Will there ever be another Tiger Stadium?
Tiger Stadium isn't going anywhere, but it could sure use a mass renovation, modernization of the interior and consolidation of the exterior "Visual Esthetics" on all four sides to match.

The newer South Endzone Upper Deck has too many eyesore features that should be corrected. (Interior FEMA Trailers up top and exterior igantanormous offset "Great White Wall of Nothing)

Remove the two corner scoreboards, extreme upper seats and the FEMA trailers. In that space, erect a mega wrap-around score board/graphics board. (Largest in college football)

Use the ENTIRE board during the game as a regular scoreboard. (Play-by-play, replays) Have scrolling advertising on the board during Pre-Game, Time-Outs, Halftime and Quarter breaks. (This will allow 100% OF ALL STATIC ADDVERTISING to be removed from the stadium)

Demolish the Great White Wall and put up a new exterior facade that duplicates the North side exactly, then work on the East and West sides to match the North and South.

Concurrently at the same time, totally renovate the entire interior, including all the rooms. Technology is available to safely remove all the asbestos and make those rooms useable.......



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