The Fighting Tigers
In a news service poll once named Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium the most dreaded stadium for visiting teams to play. But a visit to Louisiana State on any weekend the Tiger football team is playing should be anything but feared. The stadium and campus make for a great fall weekend jaunt, and can give some insight into the Southeast’s strong college football culture.
To folks like me who are outside observers to this spectacle, college football can be a bit difficult to understand. To the devoted fans — like my brother-in-law, who follows the University of Georgia Bulldogs with an undeniable passion — it seems almost like a religion.
That same devotion to college football can be seen in Louisiana State’s Tiger Stadium. Better known as “Death Valley” to non-Tiger fans, the stadium was built in the 1920s. Since then, it has been renovated five times and gone from a 12,000-seat stadium to a gargantuan structure that holds more than 90,000 people.
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