re: What does "Death Valley" mean to you?

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“I grew up knowing a lot about LSU watching them on TV. They were always on TVI had a bunch of friends and family at LSU. It's a cool stadium. I never got to go to it. I heard it's really a special place. It's a big place. It's intimidating. It's loud. We have to play really good there. I'm looking forward to playing there."
-- 2012 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel

“FACT: LSU’s Tiger Stadium at night is the toughest place on the planet to play. You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. The person in the cubicle next to you has heard it. It’s pointless to argue against it: Give 92,000-plus fans in Baton Rouge a full day to prepare, and they’ll bring in the noise and the funk. LSU players and coaches will attest to it. So will opponents. Shoot, even the seismograph in the university’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex proves it. No other stadium, no other crowd can put that on a resume.”
-- Ken Bradley, The Sporting News (Nov. 1, 2012)

“Once you can’t hear, it really doesn’t matter how much louder one place is than the other Death Valley, when it gets rocking at night, it’s a different animal. I’ve played there in the daytime as well and it’s just a different animal at nighttime.”
-- 1997 Florida quarterback Doug Johnson

“(The fans) made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that (Florida) really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.”
-- Former LSU head coach Gerry Dinardo on the 1997 LSU-Florida game

“You know what? I wish I had about 10 snaps left in this body. I’d love to pull the 94 out and suit up for about 10 snaps because there’s no better atmosphere. I’ve played in a lot of NFL stadiums, I’ve played in some Super Bowls, but there’s no atmosphere that I’ve ever been a part of in my life like the one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
-- Former LSU All-American Anthony “Booger” McFarland

"When LSU plays on Saturday night and the band takes the field plays the first four notes of 'Hold That Tiger' it will make the hair stand up on a dead man's chest."
-- Ed Hinton, Atlanta Journal Constitution

“It all makes a body tingle. These folks go berserk when the band marches on the field. A huge roar is heard for the Invocation, for heaven's sake. They not only know the words to the national anthem, they sing them, loudly. And, when the Tigers win the toss—as happened Saturday—there are tears of ecstasy.”
-- Douglas Looney, Sports Illustrated column on LSU-USC game (Oct. 8, 1979)

“College football is LSU’s Tiger Stadium at night.”
-- Former Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly

“Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the loudest stadium I’ve ever been in. There are very few stadiums in America worth a touchdown, but the Bayou Bengals certainly have that advantage in Tiger Stadium.”
-- Former ESPN sideline reporter Adrian Karsten

“The Scariest Place to Play in America.”
-- ESPN.com (2007)

“Louisiana State University has one of the most beautiful campuses we've ever seen, seemingly built in between beautiful old oaks. As the hours roll by, the noise of LSU tailgating builds. I walk around a bunch of tailgates being introduced to all. I'm offered everything from bourbon (I decline) to beer (I decline) to food (I accept). In minutes I'm eating fried oysters, shrimp, alligator and crawfish. All of them are delectable. We stumble on a tailgate in which the scene is really like Alice in football land. … This has been one of the greatest experiences of my life, and any self-respecting sports fan HAS to go to a game in Tiger Stadium.”
-- Alex Ferguson, Sky Sports UK (Nov. 9, 2012)

“Unless your with the opposing team, Tiger Stadium at night is football nirvana.”
-- Chris Low, ESPN.com

“I’d been warned prior to my first visit to Baton Rouge that the legendary Death Valley mystique was a myth. The assessment couldn’t have been more wrong. Tiger Stadium was loud as any I’ve heard during the dramatic fourth quarter of Saturday’s LSU-Georgia game (2003), the festivities surrounding it as advertised. The streets were lined with purple and gold. Smoke emanated from the grills in the parking lot. Shouts of “Go Tigers” and “Tiger Bait” echoed from the stadium deep into the heart of the campus. And that was just Friday night.”
-- Stewart Mandel, SI.com

“I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it’s Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America.”
-- Head coach Les Miles

“For three hours on Saturday Night, I don’t know that there has ever been an atmosphere in sports that I’ve been a part of that was as memorable to me. I have no dog in this fight. I mean look, I’ve been to games where I’ve watched Maryland win a national championship, that was very personal to me. Makes me think of my dad who left us too soon. I have nothing but being a sports fan on the line on Saturday night. And I’ve never seen something that felt like that. Or heard anything that was as sustained as that. … Everything that was part of the experience, I was told it was going to be awesome. It was better than I was told it was. … There is nothing I would put ahead of that that I’ve EVER seen in any sport. When you’re there, you don’t want to miss anything.”
-- Scott Van Pelt, ESPN Radio on the 2012 LSU-Alabama game

"I think atmosphere-wise, LSU was the best atmosphere that we played in [2012]. I loved playing in that game. It was probably the most fun that I've had playing even though we lost, just because of that atmosphere. It wasn't as loud during the day, but as soon as night struck, it was crazy."
-- Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace at 2012 SEC Media Days

“It was so loud I could barely read the signals. My eyes were vibrating.”
-- South Carolina’s Bruce Ellington at 2013 SEC Media Days

"It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go."
- FOX's Erin Andrews, from GQ.com "The 12 Sports Pilgrimages Every Man Should Make"

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Yeah, I think he's a little jelly of the atmosphere. I guess they don't want their fans to get too drunk so they can carefully follow along with the male cheerleaders.

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Nope. It's so after that game, the corps don't go back to their dorms with whiskey dyck.

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How do you explain to your son the "suck that tiger dick bitch" chant?

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Probably the same way you would explain this

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Probably the same way you would explain this

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When you hear 12th man what do you think of?

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Umm, what cheer is that?

Can you post it in its entirety? I need to corrupt the younger members of my family tonight and have them recite a raunchy chant to their parents

You're late.

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So, um, just unsheltered ones?

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No. Why, did it move?

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Umm, what cheer is that?

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"Rat shite, bat shite, pussy gonna smell!
Cock suck, motherfrick, Tigers give 'em HELL!!!1!"


"Peel it back and eat it raw, that's what they do in Ar-kan-saw!"


"What comes out of a Chinaman's arse? Rice! Rice!"




Football ain't the goddamned ballet.