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It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:45 pm
I have been reading the book by John Ed Bradley and there is a lot of talk how the 1979 game with USC at Tiger stadium was like the best game ever played there. Even though we lost 12-10 it seems tiger fans have taken that USC hatred along for three decades. how big do you think a game in tiger stadium would now be? I can only imagine what the game day campus expereince would be like. Hope it happens in the near future.
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Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:48 pm to back9Tiger
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we lost 12-10
17-12
LSU won 'the return match' 23-3 in Los Angeles in 1984. I think the 'hatred' came from the 2003 Media push to pump Southern Cal and discredit LSU.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:50 pm to back9Tiger
good book
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:57 pm to k wilk
Really?
Made me kind of sad for John Ed. Depressing...
Made me kind of sad for John Ed. Depressing...
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:58 pm to k wilk
quote:
17-12
sorry charlie the book says 12- 10 a few times. they came back on the last drive or something like that and scored. pick up a copy, good book.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 4:59 pm to back9Tiger
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Made me kind of sad for John Ed. Depressing...
No doubt the guy had issues. he just couldn't face not life past LSU. He should have taken the gig when stovall offered it to him.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:00 pm to back9Tiger
I read it last year. But,before I had read it,I knew LSU lost that game 17-12.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:03 pm to I-59 Tiger
Loved the book. Some people on here didn't like it but they thought it would be an LSU rah-rah book. He is a southern goth style author and it reads like most of his works. It isn't meant to be a great moments in LSU book.
This post was edited on 1/13/09 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:05 pm to I-59 Tiger
i stand corrected i found it in the book. 17-12.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:07 pm to back9Tiger
The greatest game ever. Hope to see it happen again in TS
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:11 pm to ginms
John Ed just bought a house here in Mandeville. Met he and his wife/girlfriend...I think she's a hairdresser, and I have no idea what he does other than write.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:12 pm to back9Tiger
It's actually a collection of past JEB aricles, and, as such, doesn't flow really well. In additon to his obsession to the SCal, he seems to have major relationship issues with women. I really didn't like the way he dissed his girlfriend, epecially after the shitty way in which he treated her. (And her teenage son put him on the road. Imagine!)
I met JEB at a book signing. He seemed to be a very nice person but came across to me as being gay.
FLAME AWAY. Just MHO and is shared by many others.
I met JEB at a book signing. He seemed to be a very nice person but came across to me as being gay.
FLAME AWAY. Just MHO and is shared by many others.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:59 pm to BillyBowlegs
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but came across to me as being gay
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Posted on 1/13/09 at 5:59 pm to BillyBowlegs
Good Book!!!
Posted on 1/13/09 at 6:05 pm to Tiger Fan 23
Where does he live in Mandeville?
Posted on 1/13/09 at 6:27 pm to Roovelroe
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Made me kind of sad for John Ed. Depressing...
+1
Along with feeling sad for him, he also comes off kinda pitiful. He had opportunities that most of us will only dream of, and he pissed away or shite on all of them. It took Woodley's death, Dar Dar's imprisonment, and his boy getting paralyzed for him to have his semi-epiphany. Really? Is that all it took? Most of the book just made me angry at him.
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collection of past JEB aricles, and, as such, doesn't flow really well. In additon to his obsession to the SCal, he seems to have major relationship issues with women. I really didn't like the way he dissed his girlfriend, epecially after the shitty way in which he treated her.
Also, +1
The book has a terrible narrative with the way it jumps around. He especially dumped on that girl.
Lucky for him, the guy can write.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 6:29 pm to back9Tiger
FUSC
Posted on 1/13/09 at 6:31 pm to DanglingFury
It was a good book. But I didn't come away feeling sorry for him.
Posted on 1/13/09 at 6:57 pm to back9Tiger
Most intense game with more emotion than any game I have been to over the years. Alabama this year is comparable, but back then the feeling inside that bowl was what we who have been to these type games know about. It is not easily described to others who have not experienced it. :-)
Posted on 1/13/09 at 7:06 pm to 1958
I was at that game...definitely ranks as one of the best LSU games I ever saw in person at TS. 
My hatred for USC did not come from that game though. I hated ND with a passion back then. Now they aren't even relevant. I have never hated Bama...just the majority of their fans.
My hatred for USC did not come from that game though. I hated ND with a passion back then. Now they aren't even relevant. I have never hated Bama...just the majority of their fans.
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