By Far the BEST Crowd in Tiger Stadium History..

Keep in mind that soon after the 95 yard TD screen pass....L-S-U was heard throughout the stadium as loud as ever. Timing is everything. Tigers never say die!

 

I was at the 1979 USC game on the sidelines covering the game for an ABC affiliate.

I've been to countless LSU games in the stands and countless games on the sidelines.

That USC game was the most magical I can ever recall.
After the game we went up to the press box. Keith Jackson had called the game and he told me and the guy I was working the game with that it was one of the top ten games he had ever seen in his career.

ABC had a segment at the time called 'Fireman's Fund Flashback.' Normally they carried some highlights from a game several years past. The very NEXT WEEK the 'Fireman's Fund Flashback' ran highlights of the PREVIOUS weeks game at Tiger stadium between LSU and USC. They had never done that before or since they stopped that segment.
THAT'S how great THAT game was. Being on the sidelines during that game, it was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think.
Sadly I wasn't at this weekends game against Georgia. I can imagine it was extremely loud. But for pure fanaticism the USC game is going to be hard to beat.

My most humble opinion.

 

The 1979 USC game had the loudest sustained noise of any game I have attended. However, the 2003 Georgia game was close. When you consider that the 2003 Georgia game had a daytime kickoff, then I would have to call it a tie.

 

Best Tiger crowd

I was also at the LSU-SC game but in the pressbox. AT the time the stadium held about 68,000 people, far less than today. The crowd roar was constant, you could hardly hear the opening strains of the band's pregame much less "Touchdown for LSU" as it marched across the field to form LSU. And it did not let up (except at halftime). After the game the fans refused to leave the stadium all the while clapping their hands and stomping their feet chanting, L-S-U We are proud of you. L-S-U We are proud of you. This went on for almost an hour. Coach Mac had to send out the team 3 times to acknowledge the crowd. Many tears were shed that night by the fans, team and coaches. I've heard nearly as loud or maybe even louder games but not on a sustained level as that night and that includes the 2 second Ole Miss game, Notre Dame, Florida and Tennessee. Its hard to compare noise levels between crowds. However, I have never been to a more emotional football game as that SC one. It was Mac's last year after he had been told he was no longer wanted as the Tigers" head coach by a group which no longer can control the university's athletic dept. thankfully.

 

For the loudest sustained high volume decibel count ever on the LSU campus I have to go with the 1975 Led Zeppelin concert in the PMAC. I was Dazed and Confused after that one. Of course in those days my intake of conciousness enhancing party stimulants wasn't strictly confined to the liquid variety that I partook of on Saturday.

 

I agree Red.

 

BengalB, you mean like Skoal or something (wink-wink)? Unbelievably, I missed the Led Zepplin and the ELP concert that Red mentioned. But I did see The Who there in '75 and they were PLENTY loud.

I was also at the '79 USC game, sitting in box seats directly behind the USC bench. I think it was Brad Budde who before the game downplayed the effect Tiger Stadium might have on them, saying that after all they had played and won in Notre Dame's stadium, blah, blah, blah. But to see the looks on the USC players' faces when their kicker missed the short FG at the end of the first half and the LSU crowd went off like an atom bomb. The guys on the bench right in front of me were looking at each other with their jaws hanging open and their eyes bugged out - just like the coyote when the roadrunner hits 4th gear.

I also recall Marcus Allen and Charles White shooting the bird at the LSU fans after the game - but they knew they had been in a cauldron.

Sorry I missed the Georgia game in person, but I could hear y'all all the way up here in Virginia.

 

I was very surprised to hear the chant. I was busy kicking the ground and saying some nasty words when I realize the crowd is chanted and really getting behind the team. I think the L-S-U chant really helped the team physcologically because it would have been real easy to get down on yourself in that situation.

 

I missed the Who at the PMAC but I had seen them at the Warehouse in NO. The Rolling Stones and Springsteen shows at the PMAC were both pretty loud. I think they were both in 1976. For the Stones we headed out hoping to buy tickets from somebody outside the PMAC. I picked up some guy hitchhicking on Highland Road and he sold us tickets that turned out to be on the 4th row from the stage.