Your first time at Tiger Stadium was......?

I'm pretty sure they have the big plasma sceen TVs in heaven for watching football. You could hardly call it Paradise if they didn't. Cholly Mac is probably watching and enjoying this season too. When Bear Bryant entered the Pearly Gates God greeted him and led him to a little frame house that was kind of run down looking and told Bryant "This is your house. You're lucky. Most people don't get their own house until they have been here a few milleniums." Then Bryant looked up the hill and saw a magnificent mansion with LSU flags flying everywhere. Bryant said to God "I don't mean to complain but my Alabama teams beat Cholly Macs LSU teams almost every year. Why does Mac get a mansion like that while I have to live in a dump?" God told Bryant "Thats not Macs house. Its mine."

 

My first experience(that totally sold me on being a tiger fan) was sometime in the late 70's. Steve Ensminger was the quarterback at this time. I played pee-wee football with Steve's younger brother, and Steve arranged for the team(we were the tigers too) to tour the locker room and actually go throught the tunnel onto the field. Dude...if there was ever a question of my loyalties to LSU, it ended right there. Man for a 8-9 year old kid, that was freakin awesome. Of course, it would still be awesome today, too.

My first game was around the same time. My dad took me to see the tigers play the Oregon Ducks. Awesome, I was totally hooked from then on.

 

My first time was, I think, in 1984 against Florida. We had some of those box seats (as I think they were called at the time) which were at field level and were little more than folding chairs on raised platforms (i.e., temporary seating-kind of thing).

I remember Wilbur Marshall intercepting a pass late in the 4th to seal a 31-19 Gator win...and me, as a 13 year old, breaking the finger off of my big foam LSU hand by banging it on the fence in front of my seat.

Damn Wilbur Marshall...

 

I was at that game too. It had rained almost the whole game. After LSU held MSU, me and my wife-to-be left because we were soaked. We got outside the stadium and heared the roar when Kennison scored. I was thinking LSU got another one. Then I hear the announcer say Kennison runs it back for 105 yds. An SEC record. If only I had waited 5 minutes.:angry: . Anyway my first game was sometime in the mid seventies. I know it was against Tennessee but I don't remember the year. I was about 9 or 10 so around '74 or '75.

 

Ha, I was pretty close: it was 1983, not 84 and the score was 31-17.

Damn Gators still won, though

 

1992 against MSU. I sat under the overhang in the south endzone and that was the hottest freakin ballgame I have ever been to. My most fond memory was hearing "Robert Davis Scoooorrrrreeee". The upper deck was almost empty but I was hooked for life.

 

It was '74. That was Cholly Mac's second worse season (finishing 5-5-1), but the Tigers beat Tennessee 20-10.

 

I remember that 1973 season. I was a sophomore in high school and attended every LSU game that year, home and away, except for the game at South Carolina. LSU and Bama were both 9-0. They played that game on Thanksgiving night on national television. LSU played Bama tough, winning the statistical battle, but Bama made all the plays when it counted and won 21-7. Then, the Tigers suffered a major letdown the next week at Tulane, losing 14-0. LSU was a huge favorite and had beaten the Green Wave 24 straight times. I was also at the Orange Bowl to see LSU take on undefeated Penn State. Again, LSU played great but just couldn't get the breaks or make the big plays when they needed to and fell 16-9. A season that had started with such promise at 9-0, ended up a bit sour at 9-3. I blamed the Bear. We just never seemed to be able to get over the Bear hump!

 

Mine was in 1979, against #1 Alabama. I was 11 years old and in the boy scouts - we were ushers in the south end zone. It rained all game and we had to wear these stupid RED boy scout ponchos. The Alabama cheerleaders threw red/white pom-poms to the crowd and I caught one. Then I gave it to this elderly bama fan whom I escorted to his seat. He had the crimson jacket and Houndstooth hat--looked like the Bear himself. He was very nice. Anyway, you know the score, Bama 3, LSU 0, but what a game to be your first!