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Lots of good bad memories here. I remember 1983 Miss St. That was the night that John Bond became the only QB to beat LSU 4 times.
I lived just off campus then, and took my 3-yr old son to that game. It was pretty cold, and the game wasn’t competitive. State ran the Wishbone option, and we couldn’t stop Bond for 4 years.
We left with about 6 minutes to play, but we heard one more cheer from the stadium as wr approached Nicholson. I told my son, Bond must’ve scored again. I was right.

Estay is one of my favorite all-time Tigers. I was 11-13 years old and he made so many tackles. John Fergurson would call his name all night.
I have that photo of him tackling Pat Sullivan framed on my den wall above the tv.

I’ve said “That’s baseball “ often, and I believe that’s an idiom with an element of truth that explains what goes on sometimes in games that you lose when you’re expecting to win.
But when it happens 20 times in a season, that’s a bad team.
We’ll be better next season. That’s baseball.

I’m old. After graduating in 1981, I lived off Nicholson and after work would stroll my 1-year old son to Alec Box to watch baseball. We were there, no tickets, with the players’ families and girlfriends. A couple other fans. Jack Lamabe was the coach.
They fielded the ball better than this team.

I agree, Graychef. Arrambide moves the mitt too far and dramatically when trying to frame the pitches. It looks like he does it for every pitch on the outside corner and moves it to the middle. The ump knows he’s framing and sometimes it makes the ump call it a ball. I mean if the catcher has to move it that far, thrn it must be outside.
I think we’d get more called strikes on the corner if he’d just hold the glove there. Or if he does have to move it, make it subtle, and not all the way to the middle.

I have a couple friends who are retired from DoTD. I still gripe to them about it, even though they had nothing to do with it.
Notice the shadow of the tree in the lower right of your photo. They threaded the approach ramp around the north side of that tree. If they had laid it out around the south side, the merging lane would be twice as long.

Carol Channing wasn’t at the first Super Bowl, but she was among the first celebrity performers at Super Bowl IV played in Tulane Stadium in 1970. Al Hirt and Doc Sevrinson, who lead the Tonight Show Orchestra, also performed. And the Southern U band and a reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans, with cannons firing and an actor portraying Jackson on a white horse.
Pregame had 2 hot air balloons carrying a Viking and Chief out of the stadium. I recall that the weather was stormy early that day, and the Viking balloon was pushed into the crowd by the swirling wind. Eventually took off and out of the stadium.
This was the game that started the trend of halftime extravaganzas.
My Dad was an original Saints season ticket holder and I remember him taking a phone call from the Saints ticket office offering 4 seats to the SB. They were $15 each.
The Saints were so bad back then, but they had some creative halftime shows. Camel races, ostrich race pulling buggies manned by sportswriters, balloons and cannons. Finally, a cannon fired early as the ramrod pushed the charge down the barrel. The ramrod splintered but flew across the stadium sending a few fans to the hospital. The reenactor pushing the ramrod lost a couple fingers. That put an end to the extravaganzas.

Quiet, smart kid. Best athlete not to make varsity.

I’ve been to:
UGA
UF
USC
Auburn
Tenn
A&M
Vandy
Bama

My favorite is UGA, but that may be because of Athens being a nice place to visit. But the stadium is nice. Good view from most seats.
A&M-everyone is very polite to visitors.
Tenn campus is beautiful and the river adds to the scene.
Ole Miss- we were offered hospitality at several tents in the Grove, but it’s crowded and no onsite cooking. So mostly burgers or chicken fingers in steam pans. But lots to drink.
Bama- also pretty polite to us. We ate lunch downtown before going to campus. Tuscaloosa has a nice commercial area that’s been converted for entertainment. But concessions and bathrooms in Bryant Denny are worse than Tiger Stadium! Very long lines.
Vandy is really a trip to Nashville. The stadium is small, so no bad seats, but not enough concessions for an LSU crowd.
Auburn was ok. The eagle soaring in pregame is pretty cool.
USC had good tailgating but it’s off-campus. Not a bad thing, just different.
UF-the worst. No redeeming qualities.
Some of these stadiums, upper deck seats can be very high: Tenn, Bama, A&M.
But, overall, UGA is my favorite road trip.

Dropper,
Sounds like I have to turn up the heat and wear out my spoon. I’ll try to be bold next time and see if I can save some time.
Thanks