re: LSU vs Southern Cal September 29

"It's probably the only time in my life I was intimidated by the crowd. A lot of great players have played in that stadium, but I don't know if any team has walked into that stadium and dealt with what we went through. From the time we landed to the time we left, I don't know if a team has ever gone through that. Every one of us left that night saying 'that was a game,' but I still think about it that way. I haven't been in an event like that at any level of football. Out of all the games I've ever played in, I've never been in anything like that, and I am including my Super Bowls in that assessment." - NFL Hall of Famer, Ronnie Lott

I stood in the aisle in the student section. There was no sitting that night! That was an underachieving team but they showed out that night. I was just a freshman and it was only about my 3rd game in Tiger Stadium. I was hooked for life!
There was no way Benji Thibadeaux facemsked on that last td.

Brad Budde, Southern Cal's All-American guard and the son of Kansas City Chiefs' Ed Budde, made the statement after it was over:

"Notre Dame is like Romper Room compared to this."

I was 12 years old, a boyscout usher, sitting on the steps watching the game. I remember Marcus Allen catching that swing pass and scoring the winning touchdown. I went to every home game with one exception from that time until I moved to Texas in 1997. Stadium may only have been louder when we beat #1 Washington, Earthquake game and when we beat Florida St. to go to the Orange Bowl with Alan Risher at QB.

I was a student then and I recall the week before we played a lousy team and after the game the LSU students were yelling "USC! USC!" as we were leaving the stadium.

I've been a season ticket holder since 1982 and that is the loudest and most exciting game I have ever been to at Tiger Stadium. The stadium was electrifying that night. I recall the face mask penalty but some may have forgotten that Ensminger threw a bomb into the end zone at the end of the game that a LSU receiver nearly caught.

That was probably the most heartbreaking LSU loss I've ever seen.

I was just a kid from Maryland playing golf at LSU. That game caused me to fall in love with LSU for the remainder of my life. Geaux Tigers.

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I love telling this story. I was a graduating senior and my brother had "set the date' to get married on this day. I was best man and I didn't think he should be getting married to this chick. With that said, i told him I would never let him forget that he was making me miss this game. I call him EVERY YEAR since and remind me he made me miss one of the greatest games in LSU football history..........and he didn't even stay married to this chic

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Unreal. Thanks... Unreal... I was there the night before and all day...

I'll share since it's the anniversary...

My dad was an Auburn grad. He moved to Louisiana and had me. He took me to the 1969 Auburn/LSU game in Tiger Stadium where we opened with a half back pass for a TD. I had, at the age of 12, already been to several Iron Bowls. My mom went to Alabama. That play. That day made me fall in Love with LSU. So later I attended and my senior year was 1979. My dad invited a friend of his from L.A. who was a USC grad to come down. He picked him up at the airport. This was Friday night and the guy was wearing a USC hat and windbreaker. My dad brought him to my apartment just as we stuck the Duh, dunt, duh, duuuuuh into the loud speakers. Back then, just having a cassette of the fight song was a rarity. People were screaming all over the apartment complex. The complex was built around the courtyard and pool. People came out all over on their balconies screaming. It was just turning dark outside but there was enough light left to illuminate this guy from USC, an older man, as he was walking into the courtyard with my dad. My dad had told him, in order to get him to come to the game, "LSU is the nicest place on earth. They will literally stand up and cheer as the opposing team comes on the field and leaves both..." The guy bought it to fly all the way to B.R. But when he walked into the complex and the fight song blared the first four notes, people went crazy. Friday night. Then they collectively saw this old man with his USC garb. People began to scream, cuss and point at the guy. There were some drunks - a bunch of them, er, us - that were jumping from the second floor balconies to get a chance to run at this guy. There were no less than 20 people around him screaming at him at the top of their collective lungs, "TIGER BAIT!!! TIGER BAIT!!" He was genuinely afraid and so was I. It was intense. No sooner had that happened and someone screamed, "The USC Team bus is headed to the stadium right now..." Everyone left to head over there immediately. There we screamed and waited with thousands for the buses and when they came down over the hill so the USC players could take a look at the field, which was a tradition for all visiting teams in the NCAA "back in the day" the place went nuts. IF... IF... I could have had a video of that USC man watching thousands of students rocking the USC buses, screaming, cheering, "TIGER BAIT" "TIGER BAIT" that video would have a billion views on Youtube. Seriously. The LSU of today does not begin to understand what that place and that game was like. I carried two frozen milk gallon jugs of beer into the stadium on Saturday night and the guys checking us in just laughed. Remember too it was free for students to go to the games back then. The game itself has been talked about enough. But the next Monday, the famed sportswriter, Jim Murray of the L.A. Times wrote, "It ought to be against the law to make any writer watch a game in Baton Rouge on a Saturday Night then have to watch any other game on Sunday." I lost that newspaper, which had been mailed to me by the USC man with a note, "Thanks for the best time I ever had at a football game in my life." If you weren't there, you could only imagine the Earthquake Game reaction literally from an hour before the game to 30 minutes afterwards. And we lost... Amazing.

PS... my dad died the year of Cam Newton and we spread his ashes on the 50 yard line at Auburn... the exact spot Cam Newton took off on his signature run that beat LSU, won the title for Auburn and the Heisman for him... My damn dad had something to do with that...

Present. Loudest continuous "Tiger Bait" chant ever. Started during warmups and never let up.

This was my freshman year. It was standing room only in the student section. I stood the whole game. I remember walking down the ramps leaving the stadium when everyone kind of spontaneously started the LSU LSU chant. Easily the proudest I have ever been of the Tigers in a losing effort. I am also glad that the expectations of our program have changed drastically since that game.