Sort of OT. I didn't make the UM game in '88, but I did make the Auburn game. It was the very first LSU game I ever went to and I was hooked for life after that. How could I not be?
I made that game ... and all the others ... well over 400 now. Of all the games played in the 80's ... I remember that Miami game most for many things ... the inspiration and determination passed to me by that Miami team ... After that game, I knew in my heart that LSU would have a program like Miami's some day ... And I waited 15 years to see it! My dad made that game with me, and was pissed at me for staying until the very end of the 4th quarter. He'd come to home games with me regularly since 1960, but didn't make them all as I did. The score could have been much, much worse ... even in torrential rain. Wal-Mart Ponchos were $1.88 ... I stuck a Tiger sticker in each and then sold 'em there for $10 pre-game and cleaned up ... wished I had bought 100 of them. I still remember our talk about THE LSU FB PROGRAM on the ride home, and my dad's observations of an "elite" Miami FB program ... one that I coveted until Nick Saban brought home the prize. My dad had actually scouted out the entire Miami team from recruiting and knew the mismatches they had against our personnel. He knew they would run on LSU, but he never expected holes in the line you could drive Mack trucks thru. And the passing game ... Wow! After that game, I truly began following LSU FB recruiting in earnest ... no longer just spending a couple of hundred hours on it each year with pop and family ... but well over a thousand hours each year, making Friday night HS games along the Gulf Coast in a five state area checking out potential recruits and reporting the news back to the LSU Network. This game will be truly special for me! Although pop won't be making this game with me, I wouldn't miss this game for the world ... It's a clash of two elite yet fading programs who both last saw a NC game in 2003 & 2004 ... one to finish in the Top 10 this year ... the other one dropping out.
Hey... I was three... :hihi: I wasn't IN ts but I was outside tailgating with my parents and family... I remember it vividly as my first time seeing TS and the LSU experience.
South End Zone here. I've blocked most of it out, except for one short TD pass Walsh threw early in the game. I've never seen a quarterback who looked so comfortable, so completely untouchable, as on that play. I knew we were doomed.
Me too! I was sitting in the student section almost by myself cold and wet. Miami brought the Hurricane to Tiger Stadium that night. It was awful. :bncry: Heather
I was there. I was 15, we sat right behind Miami players and they were facing us and we were cussing them and they were cussing us. Of course we couldnt say much. I also remember Steve Walsh just ripping our defense apart in the damn rain storm from hell. We left at half and had to ride an hour and a half home soaking wet. Not my best LSU game memory
I had tickets, but decided not to make the drive from NO due to the piss poor weather that evening. Watching LSU get smoked on a muddy TS field from the comfort of my home wasn't that great, but watching it soaked in the stands woulda been much worse.
I was not only there, but stayed untill the clock was 0:00. The ESPN cameras were showing the empty student section at the end of the game and there I was with my girlfriend soaking wet. We were pretty much the only people in the shot. Awful. And if you are talking about terrible losses, the loss to Tulane after the big Fla. St. Orange Bowl win was right up there with the most awful. Wasn't there a big fight at the end of that game? Hey....4 reputation chicklets for only 45 posts! I think that is pretty good, but then again I have only been here enough to post 45 times, so what do I know?
