we are only less than 6 days away from gameday, just to past time think yall can post your funniest story from tiger stadium on game day mine has to be the 02 bama game, its freezing cold, we head up to our seats in the east upper deck and there awaits a dead pigeon as if it looked like it flew right on to the concrete below the seat with its head smashed in, highlight of the night for me, still cant believe how our d gave up that 2 min drive with all runs except for spikes to stop the clock i swear this is going to be the longest week
i remember going to a game when I was 7 or 8 with my dad. i forgot who we played but i remember it was storming and my dad was hammered. we had to make a dash from tiger stadium to the charter bus back to opelousas. so my dad takes two full trash cans and dumps them out on the bottom floor of the stadium and then takes the bags out and flips them inside out so we can use them as panchos. and people wonder where I get it from.
Tygertail, I'm originally from Opelousas and rode on those buses for years. My Dad and friends used to get really smoked. Wish small towns still did it.
There are many great stories, but one of the funniest was when we were going to the game as a student. I had a beer in my hand as I was walking through the gate. The ticket taker said no alcohol is allowed in the stadium - dump it out. I threw it in the trash without thinking. As I turned around, there was a young guy walking through the other gate (must have been a freshman) that heard what the ticket taker told me. Well he must have thought the ticket taker was talking to him and he lifted up his sweatshirt exposing many ziplock bags full of booze. He started ripping off the bags and throwing them away. The cops came and escorted him out. Everyone in line was laughing at the poor guy :rofl: :rofl: Then we realized all of that booze was wasted :cry: . BTW, is there anyone in this forum that was a student from during the '93-'97 football seasons and used to sit in the front row of the student section behind the 'L' in the endzone? We used to have some great times and I seem to have lost contact with most of y'all.
I was there during that time and almost always sat in or around that very spot. There were a few heavy set guys that sat in the front row. The "second down dance", for lack of a better term, originated with those guys in the front row. At one point a few of us in that section were the only small group of students rolling our hands from side to side during the band's second down song.
My two best friends at LSU were from the north and had never attended an LSU - Ole Miss game until 1976. LSU won that game pretty handily, as I recall, but Jim and Marc decided they wanted souvenirs. The Ole Miss male cheerleaders were wearing red baseball caps, and they decided that is what they wanted. They devised a plan to snatch one of the hats outside the stadium - one guy would come running through the crowd and grab the hat off one of the cheerleader's heads and the other guy would be there to throw a body block if the cheerleader tried to give chase. The block wasn't needed. Marc came dashing through the crowd outside the visitor locker room, snatched the hat off a guy's head and kept going - but the Ole Miss cheerleader guy just stood there pointing and going "AHHHH! AHHHH! AHHHHH!!!" When they arrived back at the fraternity house, they also had a medium sized Rebel flag on a stick. The story was that they had wrestled it away from some big Ole Miss fan, but the truth was that they had taken it away from a little kid who was waving it out the window of a car in the post-game traffic jam. Both relics survive to this day and are always brought out and placed on display in Jim's house during "Ole Miss Week."
Were you on the buses that left from Donald Gardner Stadium and had George the bartender on it. I remember in the hayday that there were 2 sometimes 3 buses that left from there, then in the final days before Saban I think only one bus would go.
I am one of those guys! We had a blast! I can't believe the dance took off like it did. I smile everytime I see the whole student section (and half the stadium) doing it! :grin: :grin: :grin:
The 00 Bama game when the two guys rushed the field and mooned the Bama tean was a classic. The on-field chase by the cops only added to the hilarity. I really think that incident won the game for the Tigers. Another funny moment occured at the 01 Arkansas game. A fight broke out right behind us, and the cops showed up and started walking off with the wrong guy. My friend Luvie told the cops they were taking the wrong guy and pointed out the real culprit (some douche fratty in a sport coat). The fratty's date said "Officer, that ni**er is lying he wasn't in the fight." To which Lovie said "B###h sit your boney ass down before you get handled.
