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LSU vs Southern Cal September 29

Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:16 pm
Posted by I-59 Tiger
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Sep 2003
36703 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:16 pm
epic game at Tiger Stadium in '79.Southern Cal won 17-12.



return in Los Angeles in 1984.LSU won, 23-3.

Posted by Coastal Tiger
Along the vanishing Louisiana coast
Member since Apr 2005
2132 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:22 pm to
That 79 USC team may be the best ever, talent wise, to set foot in Tiger Stadium.
It was also the loudest that stadium has ever been, hands down.

Incredible game. Very glad that as a 14 year old at the time, I was able to be in that number.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78666 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:36 pm to
In. Sat as a kid in the first row overhang of the North end zone behind the goal posts. What a GREAT game. The Tigers gave it everything they had.


Posted by panzer
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
4035 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:53 pm to
Watched that game on a five dollar youth ticket from the south upper deck, U 17 I think. I don't know if people even realize that had youth tickets back then. Went to five seasons of LSU for like 30.00 a season! ALL the home games. This one was Won except for that terrible face mask call that shouldn't have been called because they jumped before the snap. They just did student body left six times in a row and got the go ahead score.

LSU won that game in every way but the numbers on the score board. I remember walking down the south end zone ramps balling like a baby as a broken hearted 16 year old.

I knew we'd been robbed
Posted by SOCAL TIGER
SOCAL
Member since Jan 2005
10722 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:55 pm to
I was 13 and to this day the best game I have ever been too. I think many feel that way because this was before the amount of games on TV. It is more personal because we know that only 70,000 saw it in person. Many can claim but only a limited group was there. Love to Benji Thibodeaux. It was not a hold!
Posted by panzer
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
4035 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 2:01 pm to
I remember it was the only time I cried leaving a game. It was personal for some reason and probably because it was at a time when the newspapers were the only source of info and this USC team was billed as a monster.

Best assemblage of huge men that ever walked on the grid iron and they were coming to little ole Baton Rouge, a place that most of the USC team had never seen on the map.

LSU made sure they remembered it after that night. And the fans stood and cheered for a long time after the game was over to the surprise of USC. They had never been to an away game like that. The walk in the park they were expecting turned into a nightmare they barely escaped.

It is one of three games I'd like to relive. And to think we lost….Everyone who was there will tell you it was the best game they ever say and LSU LOST!!!

That tells you how proud LSU played and much the fans were there to support them. Magical night in Deaf Valley.
Posted by 81Tiger
LSU Alumnus
Member since Sep 2009
6629 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 2:02 pm to
quote:

epic game at Tiger Stadium in '79.


My cardiac condition began that night. My ears were still ringing and my head was still pounding hours after the game was over.

A college football classic!
Posted by dante
Kingwood, TX
Member since Mar 2006
10669 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 2:24 pm to
I will always remember that game. I was 13 and a huge USC fan at the time. My parents put me on the Greyhound bus in Shreveport and I stayed in Kirby Smith with my cousin. Sat in the North end zone. Left the game a Tiger fan.
Posted by TygerDurden
Member since Sep 2009
1849 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 2:36 pm to
Has anyone ever found a video copy of the 1984 USC game? I remember listening to that one in the radio. Would be good to watch that one.
Posted by JEAUXBLEAUX
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
55358 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 2:59 pm to
I was in my office in the U of South Carolina listening to WWL. We were robbed.
Posted by bruintiger
nyny
Member since Jan 2007
430 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:10 pm to
I was there....my senior year of undergrad...was in the student section with a non student date who used a regular ticket....it was truly heartbreaking; especially the penalty against Benji (against whom I played in high school)...once that happened we know deep down how it would turn out....To this day the best LSU game I have ever seen live (I was not there for Fla 2007 or Ole Miss 1959-my father was- which are probably the best games ever in Tiger Stadium).
Posted by PennsylvaniaTiger
Harrisburg, PA
Member since Mar 2004
136 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:10 pm to
I was 13 for that game sitting in the end zone of the student section as an 8th grader at U-High. I agree that I have never attended a game that matched the intensity since.
Posted by TopsInAmericaTim
Houston Area
Member since Oct 2011
1403 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:27 pm to
3 players from that USC team are in the NFL Hall of Fame...
Posted by TopsInAmericaTim
Houston Area
Member since Oct 2011
1403 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:28 pm to
quote:

It is one of three games I'd like to relive.


What are the other 2?
Posted by TopsInAmericaTim
Houston Area
Member since Oct 2011
1403 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:29 pm to
quote:

I was there....my senior year of undergrad...
Me too. Senior Year undergrad... Still greatest game I've ever seen.
Posted by BayouBengals03
lsu14always
Member since Nov 2007
99999 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:31 pm to
quote:

I remember it was the only time I cried leaving a game. It was personal for some reason and probably because it was at a time when the newspapers were the only source of info and this USC team was billed as a monster.

Best assemblage of huge men that ever walked on the grid iron and they were coming to little ole Baton Rouge, a place that most of the USC team had never seen on the map.

LSU made sure they remembered it after that night. And the fans stood and cheered for a long time after the game was over to the surprise of USC. They had never been to an away game like that. The walk in the park they were expecting turned into a nightmare they barely escaped.

It is one of three games I'd like to relive. And to think we lost….Everyone who was there will tell you it was the best game they ever say and LSU LOST!!!

That tells you how proud LSU played and much the fans were there to support them. Magical night in Deaf Valley.

Seems similar to the LSU/Alabama game in 2012, but even a bigger deal.

I would relive that game if I could, even though we lost.
Posted by T
Member since Jan 2004
9889 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:34 pm to
just imagine how great the game would have been had it been played in Dallas, Atlanta or Houston.
Posted by bruintiger
nyny
Member since Jan 2007
430 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:35 pm to
That game showed old school LSU football at its very very best....times have changed...
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
16455 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:39 pm to
Would be appropriate for the SEC network to show this game now that they're affiliated with ESPN.

The game was shown on ESPN - but not live. They were a fledgling network then and that was their thing; broadcast games on a delayed basis. So there should be a tape of it available in their vault.
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
15851 posts
Posted on 9/29/14 at 3:43 pm to
I was there, 22 yrs. old. Upper deck. Was an unreal game as far as the crowd noise, even in the upper deck. Will always remember the int. on USC's first drive I believe on a long pass play. I forgot who tipped it and int'd it. It set the tone for the defense.
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