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Posted on 8/21/21 at 9:22 pm to Farmer1906
Posted on 8/21/21 at 9:22 pm to Farmer1906
I'll gladly admit that Faurot Field looks very underwhelming when photographed, but it definitely feels a lot bigger than it looks when you're there. It's not a very aesthetically pleasing stadium and I'd love to have a new one, but it's no worse than Vaught Hemingway or Davis Wade. Lumping it with Vandy is woefully inaccurate
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Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:13 pm to ShowMeHorns
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LSU, death valley? I've seen a couple post on how it got that name due to a graveyard? Accurate or no?
Never heard anything about a graveyard.
It was originally called “Deaf Valley” due to crowd noise. At some point in the 50’s, a newspaper writer misheard “deaf” as “death” and called it “Death Valley” in the article. About that time we won our first National Championship and the new moniker stuck.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 11:02 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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The most miserable experience I ever had at a football game was in Norman in 1997. Couldn't even enjoy the 51-7 beat down because it was 8 degrees!
Not sure how good the Aggies were in 1997, but I know how good the Sooners were in 1997! That Sooners team paired with that temperature, no thanks! I went on a recruiting trip to A&M in 2000, the Aggies played Tulsa, it was a cool experience.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 1:34 am to BoomerSooner
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Not sure how good the Aggies were in 1997
Big 12 South Champions. 9-2 regular season, but got run over by Nebraska in the title game and lost to UCLA in an R.C. Slocum Cotton Bowl special.
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I went on a recruiting trip to A&M in 2000, the Aggies played Tulsa, it was a cool experience.
I'm going to assume you meant academic year 2000, because the 1999 season was when A&M played Tulsa at Kyle. Randy McCown's 96 yard TD pass to Chris Taylor is still the longest pass play in A&M history.
The 2000 season, A&M played at Notre Dame, Wyoming and UTEP in non-conference.
This post was edited on 8/22/21 at 1:36 am
Posted on 8/22/21 at 1:41 am to KCM0Tiger
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but it definitely feels a lot bigger than it looks when you're there.
Not really. If you didn’t have that track/walking path around it that makes the stadium feel like it’s a mile away, it wouldn’t feel that big. It’s definitely not better than the Vaught or Davis Wade by any measure.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 6:16 am to Farmer1906
Posted on 8/22/21 at 6:39 am to Golfer1
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Damn Donald W Razorback stadium is a thing of beauty
I went in 2016 (pre -renovation) but honestly not a bad seat in the house and great scenery.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 8:31 am to WAC13
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Never heard anything about a graveyard.
It was originally called “Deaf Valley” due to crowd noise. At some point in the 50’s, a newspaper writer misheard “deaf” as “death” and called it “Death Valley” in the article. About that time we won our first National Championship and the new moniker stuck.
The phrase "where opponents dreams come to die" came along sometime after that.
The graveyard is a Clemson Death Valley thing. They have a mock graveyard where tombstones are erected for big wins.
https://www.tigernet.com/forum/thread/Football-tombstone-graveyard-Story-behind-who-was-first-1021477
Now BDS is right next to a big real graveyard... I thought that was kind of creepy.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:30 am to GetmorewithLes
Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:31 am to Farmer1906
We do too for our mascots.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 10:05 am to Mizz-SEC
I was talking about our stadium dumbass
Posted on 8/22/21 at 10:11 am to Farmer1906
Lots of amazing stadiums in our conference 
Posted on 8/22/21 at 10:25 am to Old Money
Yep, nice and unique facilities for sure, those little things interest me. Guess I'm a geek lol
Posted on 8/22/21 at 10:27 am to WAC13
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Never heard anything about a graveyard.
You never heard of native Americans being buried all around that place?
Posted on 8/22/21 at 11:35 am to BigRedNewKingOfSEC
Post less, you are embarrasing the rest of us.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 12:09 pm to Questfor8
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Post less, you are embarrasing the rest of us.
I think everyone knows he's an Alter
Posted on 8/22/21 at 12:23 pm to Sput
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Fake news, no BLM sign on Tiger Stadium
You hired Harsin
Posted on 8/22/21 at 12:38 pm to JetDawg
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Looks like Arkansas' Razorback Stadium now has the colored lights...looks great.
Thanks! Actually, we don't have red colored light. On Friday nights before a home game they light up the video boards solid red, which gives the stadium that red glow. It looks really cool.
We've been doing this for about 10 years or so now.
This post was edited on 8/26/21 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 8/22/21 at 1:09 pm to lsusteve1
You hired Shrek.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 1:33 pm to ShowMeHorns
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Yep, nice and unique facilities for sure, those little things interest me. Guess I'm a geek lol
You'll have a lot of neat new places to travel to! I have a few SEC East schools I still need to visit
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