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Woodward said in a WAFB interview earlier this year he was “very optimistic” that game day will be back to normal.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN It’s not just Baton Rouge that will be back to its old self either. Campuses across the country are
“It’s going to be wild. You’re going to have a lot of pent-up emotion and then just kind of a release,” says DVA Tailgating member Zach Rau, daydreaming about the first “normal” football game in Baton Rouge in nearly two years.
DVA Tailgating’s Adam Henderson and Terence Delaine toast to the Tigers.
opening up, and after months of travel restrictions, what better time to take a trip to see the Tigers play an away game? Along with its standard SEC schedule of rotating opponents, LSU also makes its first-ever trip to the historic Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, on Sept. 4 to play UCLA for the first time in school history. It’s a rare opportunity for the Tigers to play against an uncommon opponent in a legendary stadium, similar to LSU’s trip to Lambeau Field in Wisconsin in 2016. The LSU Alumni Association’s Traveling Tigers group, which just celebrated its 35th anniversary, takes a little extra pride in planning these unique road trips. It’s not every day you get a plane full of LSU fans bound for Los Angeles for a weekend full of fun and football. “It’s definitely a little more work because we don’t plan it every two years, like our other schedule. But for us, it’s a new city that we get to introduce our fans to,” says Vice President of Alumni Engagement & Marketing Sally Stiel. “We (work) with other Continued on page 35
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