I'm not sure whether the heart of the 2005 team for carrying the state through Katrina is the best compared to the zany season last year. Sentimentality tells me the former; gut feeling tells me the latter. One thing I do know: both seasons were epic.

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Posted by geaux222

Baton Rouge

Member since Jun 2004

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Posted on 7/15/08 at 12:51 am to Geauxld Finger

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The days of playing "You Honk We Drink" at my house on the corner of Jennifer Jean and Burbank.

A few years ago? I honked many a time...

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Posted by tigerfan1

Member since Jan 2007

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Posted on 7/15/08 at 1:02 am to geauxtigers2

Going to the games, sitting on the East 5 yard line lower level (directly across from the Band, old section 20)from the the Charlie Mac era in the mid seventies all the way through to Mike Archer with my Dad. How to pick just one great memory out of all those treasured moments is tough. It didn't matter if LSU won or lost (ok maybe it did a little) but the main thing was being a kid hanging out with my best friend, my dad.

I may have gone to games before 1977 but my earliest clear memory is of my Dad and I getting to the Rice game 5 minutes late and as we were walking up the ramps, we heard this tremendous roar. When we got to our seat we found out that Carlos Carson had just run back a kick-off for a touchdown. I think he ran it back 99 yards. Then LSU blew the Owls out. I think it was 77 to 0 (Rice may have scored once...I am not sure.

Then there was the agony of watching USC come back and win in 1979. Also in 1979, I was 8 years old and my buddy who was about 10 both went ALONE to see LSU and Alabama play. It was pouring down rain and my Dad had given us homemade panchos (i.e. garbage bags!) to wear. It worked too! We were dry and got to watch the Bear beat us 3 to 0.

And I remember there were two groups of fans. One group would yell "Help Mac Pack!" and the other would yell "Bring Back Mac". Come to think of it, I think that was the same group of people depending on if LSU was winning or losing and on how much they had to drink. Then I remember LSU giving Coach Mac a Cadillac for retirement. Being the kids that we were my friend and I made up a song as we walked back to our car after his last home game. I still remember it, "Bought Coach Mac a Cadillac.....so he can drive to his ratty ole shack!" We were just being kids...we didn't know any better at the time.

Then there was the Florida State game that determined who went to the Orange Bowl in the early eighties. LSU was not so anal then as they are now so they let some 80,000 people walk into the stadium with oranges. I was one of the thousands who threw one onto the field that night. I would have to say that was the greatest memory of all. The crowd, the deafening noise, and people launching oranges out of the old West upper deck. When you are a kid, it can't get much better than growing up in Tiger Stadium!!!

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Posted by pgaddxn

between here and there

Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 7/15/08 at 1:03 am to geaux222

living in tampa and calling the championship in june and having to listen to gator fans talk shite all season especially when they beat us. the 2 bottles of wine for the NCG 1 if we won 2 if we lost. then getting to go to work the day after clad head to toe in lsu and smile in everybodys face and tell em i told you. best shite ever. that next weekend we drove all over the tampa bay area with darth vader masks and and LSU #1 fingers waiving and honking at every gator sticker or liscense plate we saw.

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Posted by drdrfaulkner

Butler PA

Member since Apr 2007

757 posts

Posted on 7/15/08 at 9:21 am to pgaddxn

I have a lot, but one I remember the most is, as a youngster, seeing my Dad's dorm room IN Tiger Stadium. He was a student there in the 1940s when students actually lived there--it was a strategy used by Huey P. Long when he wanted to build the stadium and the Louisiana legislature (or whatever) said that student housing came first. So HPL combined the two.

I still look at Billy Cannon's 89-yard run in the Halloween game as being the start of me being a fan.

I was an LSU fan when Joe Bill Adcock was playing with the Milwaukee Braves (along with Aaron, Spahn, Burdette, and Matthews).

Warren Morris's homer in the CWS.

During one of the LSU CWS games in the 1990s, when LSU had all those HRs, the announcer saying that he hadn't seen a HR in a while, and Mouton slamming one over the LF fence, on cue.

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Posted by robttiger

Columbia MS

Member since Sep 2004

367 posts

Posted on 7/15/08 at 6:40 pm to San Diego Buckeye

being in the stadium for Cholly Mac's last home game and they rolled that Cadillac out for him.

and any other time I am lucky enough to go I try and treasure the experience because you never know these days if it might be your last.

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Posted by Panthera Tigris

Tampa Bay

Member since Jun 2007

669 posts

Posted on 7/15/08 at 7:04 pm to geauxtigers2

October 8th, 1988-Hodson to Fuller. I was watching the game in Alabama with a bunch of Auburn fans that were talking some serious smack all evening. My yell was deafening when Fuller caught the pass.

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