“Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s
SATURDAY NIGHT
in DEATH VALLEY
and here come your Fighting Tigers of LSU!” “It has turned the knees of All-Americans to goo. It has caused coaches to lose their coaching minds. Dark. That combined with Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night is something loud, strange and holy. There is noise in stadiums everywhere from Eugene to Tuscaloosa. Only in Baton Rouge is there a living, breathing being lurking in its grand, old stadium.”
“Three SEC coaches I spoke with who have worked in other leagues say that Tiger Stadium is, by far, the loudest stadium in the country.” - Bruce Feldman, ESPN.com, Oct. 1, 2007
“Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It’s like being inside a drum.” - Paul “Bear” Bryant, Former Alabama Coach
- Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com, Oct. 8, 2009
“(Tiger) Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you’ll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU’s Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night.”
“My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.”
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- Glenn Dorsey, LSU All-American
“I get asked about the best games I’ve called, and as far as college football goes, the FloridaLSU (2007) environment was as good as I’ve ever been around. I had always heard about night games at Tiger Stadium and had never gotten the chance to call one. It was really special to be a part of that.” - Verne Lundquist, CBS Sports
- Beano Cook, ESPN (2008)
“The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don’t stop at all. They keep going.”
- Pat Forde, ESPN.com on Tiger Woods’ putt to force a playoff at the 2008 U.S. Open, June 14, 2008
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“LSU students are the best. Part of being the best, is knowing when to be loud, when to be quiet and where to channel your energy. When they are on, they just wreck the other team.”
- Former Arkansas RB Darren McFadden
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