re: Tiger Stadium Dorms

I lived in North Stadium right across from Mike my 1st year in 1984. It was the hottest year on record. I remember 104 degree days with No AC. Had to sleep with NO Cover, and would wake up at night with 3-4 inch Flying Roaches on my chest drinking the sweat off my chest. Rats as big as medium sized Cats. I reached in my wooden closet for shoes once, and had a Rat the size of a Dog run up my arm, jump off my shoulder onto my roommate's lap while he was reading, then bounced off my bed, then right out the window to the ground. I lived on 3rd floor. There were 5 floors. Rooms got smaller as you went higher to 5th floor. Easy to Pass Liquor pass the Metal Mesh Screens as friends were walking up the Ramps. A good many Players lived in South Stadium then, and they were the only rooms with AC. Mike the Tiger woke everybody up EVERY SINGLE night at 2am... when they Fed him a wheel barrel full of meat. If anybody was there that year... that was me who rolled the Bowling Ball every night down the hallway with a "Chip" in it, between 2 and 4am. Made some HELLacious noise as it rounded the circumference of the concrete hallway. Guy on the very end would grab it before anybody could come up and investigate. Anybody who was anywhere near Me that year probably Hated Me! I turned the whole year into my very own Jackass Movie! I don't think Ie ever went to sleep when it was dark outside. Had to take showers late at night, because it was wide open. Even the toilets were all inside one room with showers...unless you Enjoy taking a shower rubbing elbows with the guy staring at himself in the mirror the whole..... moved to Power Dorm after that. That was enough. LSU went 0-7 in the SEC that year... never was an empty seat in the house, and noise was UNREAL from start to finish... very different from the Fans now!