-1972... -hearing the Golden Band from Tigerland play the pregame routine as the team ran on the field for the first time. Incredible chills then and now. -Bert Jones to Brad Davis vs Ole Miss as time expired...nuff said -The panty raid before the Ole Miss game -The food fight in the cafeteria (by Kirby Smith and the Pentagon) before the Ole Miss game. -The hangover after the Ole Miss game Don't know if this counts, but the snowfall in January on the first day back to start the second semester which was also the same day of the Howard Johnson sniper in New Orleans.
Wasn't that the year of the big streak on campus? or was it '71? News traveled slow up to North BR :hihi: That pass from Bert J to Brad D was marvelous. TS was ROCKIN'!
... LSU-Tenn '05. Agh. Won't ever forget that one. I brought my sister to that game and we sat in my grandpa's seats on the 50, halfway up on the east side. It was hot, miserably hot, so hot that I had wiped sweat off my forehead so many times I had rubbed my forehead raw. As magnificent as the first half was, the second half was miserable. Highlight of that season HAS to be the Arizona State game, which I watched from whatever the name of that popular sports bar in Hammond is- I had driven to Covington to help clean up on the family farm out there after Katrina and for being such a good sport Dad surprised me and drove me to Hammond (because St. Tammany was one of the parishes that got hit pretty bad) to watch the game because he knew how much it meant to me, missing my first game as a college student. Watched the ESPN broadcast and cheered almost as loud as I ever had in my entire life. Got the whole restaurant going as an 18 year old. Walking out, Dad turns to me and says, "Man, I'm glad I raised you right." Also remember great scrappy wins against AU, Florida, and Bama- first time we'd ever beaten all three in one year. Went to a terrible SEC Championship game (lost it only because we'd played 12 straight weeks of football, I still say) and ended up being on a plane for the duration of the Peach Bowl, missed the entire thing- and watched the SportsCenter highlights of that shellacking about 40 times that night from the hotel in Denver.
My freshman year as well. My first year of college was all of my older friends first year as graduates. They told us that they weren't gonna set up any tailgate anymore, and that it was on our group. So we went out, in the median of Nicholson (which because of the damn hippies, we couldn't park there anymore because it hurt the oak tree roots) and tailgated with like 2 chairs and 2 ice chests. and nothing else...... It was a thousand degrees, and the worst tailgate of my life. Then we go to the game, take a nice 21-0 halftime lead, then watch LSU lose in OT. I hated Les Miles so much that night!
Beating Tennessee for the SEC Championship. And getting to go for free as a member of Tigerband. I also remember going into my office at my student aid job the monday after the Ole Miss loss and writing everything down that needed to happen for LSU to make the championship game. It was nice for it to all have worked out. Rohan Davey and Josh Reed breaking records in the Bama game. Nebraska having LSU week on their campus leading up to the SEC Championship game so they could get back into the title game.
The low was losing to UAB. The high was split between beating Tennessee when no one gave us a chance and beating Bama in Tiger Stadium for the first time in 30 years.
And Joe Addai was hurt. Without those two things, I think we roll. The 2005 and 2006 teams were damn good teams. My freshman year, the final year of the dark times - 1999. Probably the weekend that sticks out most was the weekend of the Florida game. I think the game was a 2:30 game, and from about 10 o'clock that morning, all the way up through the start of the game, it was a total deluge. Torrential downpour like I've never otherwise seen from a non-tropical system. There were FEET of standing water around the field. When we were waiting on the sidelines before marching onto the field for the halftime show, I was standing in probably 6-8 inches of water, and that was pretty close to the sideline. Add to that the way we got manhandled, and it was a pretty miserable day. To make matters worse, we were playing at the Saints game the next day, so we didn't have time to get our uniforms cleaned or even to let them dry. We spent most of the next day, including the bus ride over to New Orleans, and sitting field level where it was 60 degrees, in completely soaked, cold, moldy smelling, wool uniforms. I'd do it again.
Dont forget the offenses when there was a poor QB. QB Draw, QB Draw, QB Draw, QB Draw, QB Draw, Interception. That was pretty much your '02 Auburn game.
