I put my cardiologist back on speed dial. I expect a nail biter that goes down to the wire. I hope to hell I'm wrong. :lol:
Less confident this year. I think the circumstances are completely different. In '03 we were on a roll, and our D was dominant. OU had been exposed in the Big 12 championship game, and I just had a really good feeling we were going to win. This year, our O is much better. We all "expect" our D to be much better with the time off to get healthy, but with the exception of the SECCG, our D hasn't been solid since the 2nd half against Florida. So I am not 1,000% confident that our D will be stellar tonight. I am pretty sure that we're a better team, but because of tOSU's game last year, they are said to have "a chip on their shoulders". All of the crazy stuff happening this year makes this seem like our destiny. We'll see what happens tonight at 7:22!!! :crystal: :geaux: :crystal: :geaux: :crystal:
More. We have the perfect Head Coach for this game against OSU. Our team is loose and ready to play. They will let it all hang out. :geauxtige
In 2003 I was 41 years old, had waited my entire life just to play in a clear national title game in football or basketball, and said for two decades that if I saw LSU win a national title in either sport with my own eyes I would die a happy man. The entire month leading up to the game I thought about it every day, all the time and had trouble focusing on anything else in terms of entertainment interests (Christmas parties, TV, movies, other sports games, etc.) With one week to go I began feeling quesy, all day, every day and was taking stomach remedies. By kickoff I was ready to pee my pants. In the last 10 minutes when Oklahoma was making it's last ditch attempt my arm had gone from hugging my girlfriend's (now wife's) shoulder to squeezing her neck so tight I was cutting off her blood circulation and air. This year, now that we have a title securely in hand and have had many great seasons . . . I feel the exactly same damn way. I need the game to start so I can get some relief one way or another. I have already been to the bathroom with loose bowels 6-9 times by noon. I can only say the same thing now I will yell tonight to Hester and Doucet: "Run faster, man, run faster. Go! go! GEAUX!"
I'm confident that.... 1) If one team comes out with a bad case of the jitters, it will be tOSU. 2) If a band member falls on his face trying to dot the i, he will also be from Ohio State. 3) If a coach tries to "insert himself" into the game with some weird play, his first name will be Les. 4) ... my neighbor down the street with the LSU flag out front, who just placed containers of gold and purple flowers down his driveway, will stomp the crap out of each container by midnight should LSU lose. 5) ... I will be too over-served to stop him (if need be). Good Luck, guys and gals.....
In 2003 I kind of lazily fell into the game. I was a Freshman and I never really paid attention to football until I got to LSU, so when we surged through our season and trounced Georgia it seemed like people were ready to already declare us national champs. Now, during the game it seemed like everything was moving in slow motion, as I was banging on the seat in front of me in the Superdome, counting down OU's downs ("We just gotta stop 'em two more times...). Now, I've paid much more attention down the stretch and it's really psyched me out. I'm nervous that everyone has written off OSU as slow repeat failures. They'll probably win because they have had this date circled on their calendars since the final whistle blew at Glendale last year.
