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Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:15 pm to MountainTiger
The Bama game was played in the rain.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:20 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
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Also lost to FSU that season. Tough schedule.
If LSU had won that game (FSU 24-LSU 19), Bobby Bowden would’ve been the next Coach at LSU. He actually told me this.
FSU wasn’t THE FSU yet and he was starting to question if he could win big there. This game convinced him that he could. He told me that he had already been contacted and was considering it.
Crazy to think what the 80’scand 90’s would’ve been with him as HC.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:20 pm to St8lyOaks
I remember this stuff. Also the small high school I attended beat Bonnabel in 79. He was good, we were better that day.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:26 pm to 6R12
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I remember this stuff. Also the small high school I attended beat Bonnabel in 79. He was good, we were better that day.
Tommy Wilcox didn’t play for Bonnabel in 79, lol, he was redshirting in Tuscaloosa.
What school did you play for?
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:58 pm to St8lyOaks
I was at those games, including Charlie Mac's last game in Orlando. I have always said that the USC game was the most exciting game in Tiger Stadium history that we lost. Got screwed by the refs. Charley Mac was still insisting on his death bed that that facemask penalty was a bogus call and I agree with him.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:01 pm to St8lyOaks
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40th anniversary of 1979 team this year
The Fla. St. game that season was the first game I'd been to since I was in the Cub Scouts in '71 or '72. As Cub Scouts we went to the games to escort people to their seats. Being 7 and 8 years old I didn't know most people knew where to sit. And I was more focused on my job than who LSU was playing or really much about the games at all. All I remember from those games is one was incredibly loud and another most people were gone by the 4th quarter. By 1979 I had started playing football and was really excited to go to the game. I was a soph in HS and me and 2 friends sat in one of the box seats on the ground level close to the endzone. I don't remember which side we were on. Before the game as we were in line to walk into the stadium there was this, IDK, I guess he was a former player for Fla. St., dude was built like that guy from the movie The Program, about 6'5", 260, nothing but muscle, no shirt, walking around just cussing LSU and LSU fans, daring anybody to shut him up. He wasn't talking to anyone in particular, just in general hollering and cursing and threatening.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:21 pm to geauxpurple
I hate to say it but in 1979 this was a 15 yard penalty.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:55 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
But the USC offensive lineman raised up before the snap, would have never been a facemask if called. We got hosed. Greatest, loudest game in TS history. USC was most talented team to ever play in TS, 2 Heisman winners and 4 future HOF players.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:14 pm to St8lyOaks
I remember, I must've been about 10 years old, we were tail-gating and my dad and my uncle Leonard were talking to some of the other adults we were tail-gating with (don't remember who) and they were saying that someone had bought a ticket for $1,000. A grand back in 1979 was a heck of a lot of money!
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:18 pm to tiger81
This is true. USC was likely the most talented team to ever invade Tiger Stadium with the 1988 Jimmy Johnson Miami team that destroyed us 44-3 a close second.
I was 14 and sitting on the east side. Never heard it that loud and thought we'd pulled the upset of the century.
I was 14 and sitting on the east side. Never heard it that loud and thought we'd pulled the upset of the century.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 6:55 am to ATCTx
I was 13 and a huge USC fan at the time. Road the greyhound bus from Shreveport and went to the game with my cousin who was a student at LSU. Left the stadium a Tiger fan.
I seem to remember a pass going through Carlos Carson’s hands in the end zone late in the game that would have won it. Is that correct or am I misremembering?
I seem to remember a pass going through Carlos Carson’s hands in the end zone late in the game that would have won it. Is that correct or am I misremembering?
Posted on 6/26/19 at 6:58 am to MountainTiger
But that Bama game was the most frustrating thing I'd ever seen up to that point.
—I was in the south endzone. It was cold and raining. That made the loss even worse.
PS that 79 roster was loaded with legendary Tigers LINK
—I was in the south endzone. It was cold and raining. That made the loss even worse.
PS that 79 roster was loaded with legendary Tigers LINK
This post was edited on 6/26/19 at 7:04 am
Posted on 6/26/19 at 7:53 am to cypresstiger
quote:PAINFUL
PS that 79 roster was loaded with legendary Tigers LINK
Posted on 6/26/19 at 9:28 am to babymaker
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If LSU had won that game (FSU 24-LSU 19), Bobby Bowden would’ve been the next Coach at LSU. He actually told me this. FSU wasn’t THE FSU yet and he was starting to question if he could win big there. This game convinced him that he could. He told me that he had already been contacted and was considering it. Crazy to think what the 80’scand 90’s would’ve been with him as HC.
This is true.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 9:47 am to 2geaux
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That was my freshman year.
Same here! Still the most emotional game I've been to in T.S.
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You will never convince me that Benji Thibodeaux faced masked Paul McDonald!
He may or may not have (USC QB Paul McDonald said he "brushed his facemask but did not grab it"), but USC was offsides first and it wasn't called. I had a class with Thibodeaux and the next week students clapped and cheered for him when he walked in.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:08 am to St8lyOaks
Yup. The 3-0 score is deceiving. LSU was dominated from start to finish.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:16 am to NOSTRODAMUS
Mistake to focus on the facemask call. The play never should have happened. Right side of USC OL jumped pre-snap. 5 yds in that situation would have made a huge difference.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:32 am to St8lyOaks
quote:I was at this game sitting in the lower north endzone.
and a 3-0 loss to #1 Alabama later in the year, with two 4th quarter interceptions thrown by Steve Ensminger.
It freakin rained almost all night and the field was muck. At one point, an LSU player made a tackle on the sidelines and knocked over Bear Bryant into the mud. The stadium went crazy. That was the biggest cheer of the night.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 12:12 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
McDonald said that he does not know who that Tiger was, but any LSU fan from that era remembers instantaneously: defensive tackle Benjy Thibodeaux.
"His hand did brush my face mask, but it was a very, very fortunate call, " McDonald recalled. "I was kind of surprised we got the call to tell you the truth."
"His hand did brush my face mask, but it was a very, very fortunate call, " McDonald recalled. "I was kind of surprised we got the call to tell you the truth."
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