Most crushing LSU moment

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GREAT topic SF.

Here is my most crushing LSU moment.

When Butch Duhe suddenly passed away just a week before the 1970 season, I was 13 years old, and I cried. I had followed him as a Holy Cross great, and he was truly a great HS QB. We were all sure he was going to be a great Tiger too.
The first game of that season was against A&M, and all I remember is Paul Lyons trying to bat the A&M Hail Mary pass down, but he batted the ball up in the air and the A&M receiver ran under it there was no way anybody was going to catch him. TD Aggies. Ballgame.

I can't ever remember any game I ever saw at Tiger Stadium with a crowd that was so disconsolate.

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Are you sure that wasn't 1996?

I only say that because I turned 18 in Jan of '97 and I remember being devastated because they changed the law back to 21 shortly before my 18th birthday.

 

I'm pretty sure it was '97 because I had just moved to Dallas, and everyone up here was asking about that story.

 

You're right, but I'll take winning so much that a 9 win season is a horrendous disappointment vs being happy making a bowl any day of the week. I respond to your post b/c even though I'm 30, I didn't start watching LSU sports (or any college sports for that matter) until 2003. So yeah, I've definitely been spoiled as an LSU fan, but that's a good thing.

To contribute to the thread and stay on topic: hands down the most crushing moment WOULD be a tie b/t the two 3-OT losses in 2007 IF we hadn't miraculously won it all despited the two losses. With that being the case, I'll have to go with the final play of the bowl game loss to Iowa. I know that's not even close to the most crushing loss in LSU sports history, or even football for that matter, but it is for me b/c, again, I've only been a collegiate sports fan since 2003.

Now SabanFan, let's get the "Greatest LSU sports moments" thread going! Not to knock this thread, but it makes more sense because we have such great success in sports. Damn it's great to be an LSU Tiger! Are ya' with me Tigers!! (oops, got a little excited there..)

 

If I had to pick one moment, it would be the blunder at the end of the Ole Miss game.

 

26 years and it still hurts

It was the 1985 Alabama game in Tiger Stadium that ended in a 14-14 tie. It was the midpoint of our long drought against Alabama in Tiger Stadium. Dalton Hilliard led a Tiger drive down to Alabama's seven yard line in the final minute of the game. Rather than punching it in with time left on the clock, LSU ran the clock down and settled for a 24 yard chip shot field goal that Ronnie Lewis missed. That tie hurt me more than any loss we've ever had.

 

It was 1997 because it was my last semester of my undergrad degree.

And the drinking age loophole closed on August 15, 1995. I remember because my birthday is August 11. I was born in 1975 so I turned 20 4 days before the law changed. I joked that I was "Freds Legal" for four days because back in the day, you had to be 20 to get in Freds. I went from being legal to drink for 2 years, to having to sit on the bench for a year before I could get back in the game. That sucked worse than never being able to drink because I had rights stripped away from me when I should have been grandfathered in.

 

I was only 8 at the time but remember that game well, maybe because it was one of the first games that I watched completely by myself. I want to say Gary James had a 49 yd TD run (straight up the middle) and Wendell Davis had a long TD catch (60+ yds).

Those were the two "plays" that I would draw up with my friends on the playground. First, hand the ball to me and I'll run really fast up the middle. Next, throw the ball deep to me down the sidelines and I'll do the rest.

 

I recall that the loophole went back and forth a few times, maybe due to appeals? When I turned 18 on Aug 20, 1995, I went out to a bar at midnight (on the 19th) and was told that 18 was still legal. That particular bar was in Maurice (near Lafayette) so maybe they intentionally overlooked the Aug 15th legislation. It seemed as though it went to 21 for good shortly thereafter.