I doubt that had to do with how loud / intimidating the fans in the stadium might be, but more about the reputation of LSU fans. I had a blast there, no one messed with me, but I've heard some pretty nasty stories from people I know who were treated badly by those fans...
I think they are a different culture of fans that if you don’t have thin skin and can cut up then everyone has a great time. We got fed by total strangers after we took the Tiger Bait well.
Yah, we were treated great, though part of that was due to LSUgradBamaDad hooking us up. But tons of strangers were completely cool with us, making joking comments and such, nothing serious.
Yeah my only regret is that I didn’t get to see their version of the Walk of Champions or Mike ( he just died when I went
). I plan to go again this year as well. I’ll probably never go to Auburn or UGA again, but aTm and LSU I recommend to any true college football fan because they have some of the best traditions and atmospheres I’ve ever seen.
I'd tend to agree, I had a great time and I was in the end zone right at the edge of the Alabama section (so LSU fans were on one side of me). But I guess overall there's just more of a... let's say aura? With what LSU has going on with their games, all the way down to always getting to play at night for big games and so on. The environment certainly seems to be in people's heads more.
I thought that was the point: All 25 were of Bryant-Denny, so I gave it awesomeness. I guess the joke was on me.
Well I think in a way that particular game they had a reason to be confident. They beat us at home, Miles had become the 2nd coach to beat CNS in consecutive games, we had an unproven qb ( entering but not leaving), and it was in NOLA ( the sight of their last 2 NCs 03 and 07). I heard they were worst than normal that game, but I’ve also heard they are worst away from BR than in it.
I was at that game. The stadium was went from explosively loud to total silence when OU hit that fake punt.Loudest I've ever personally heard B-D was all the way back in 2003 when we played a heck of a close game against OU - which at the time was nearly at the top of the "food chain" in college football.
BUT - Caveat - I was sitting very low in the bowl for that game, and most games since I've been in one of the decks - SO I can't claim its a fair comparison!!!
Good post and true. Often folks confuse loud with intimidating, but as you have alluded to, the 'Shoe is loud, but if Miami of Ohio played there instead of OSU it wouldn't be particularly intimidating and the same applies to Bryant-Denny or any other home stadium for a major team. Few stadiums are louder than Death/Deaf Valley in Baton Rouge but Bama has a better winning percentage there than does the home team. In point in fact, LSU once went over 20 years without their fans seeing a win over Bama in that stadium, and they haven't been fairing too well lately there for that matter either. Talk to players and they'll almost to a man tell you that it revs them up to go into a loud, rowdy stadium and hear the high decibel noise and listen to it slowly go silent as they grind the home team down. Always been that way, always will be that way as long as you have real competitors on a team. Real players glory in beating down the opponent's fans along with the opposing team.
