Vintage Fans: Tell Us a Tulane Stadium Story?

SaintsBro · 03-14-2011, 01:43 PM

I don't know which game it was, but there was one time when AL Hirt cussed like a sailor after some bad Saints play, which got picked up by the microphone that he would blow his trumpet into, and thus a string of Hirt-ful profanity got broadcast over the stadium PA...

I was reeeeally young, probably my first game, but I remember seeing the Dolphins kinda beat up on the Saints at Tulane Stadium during their heyday. Bob Griese, Larry Czonka, Mercury Morris, the No Name defense, all those dudes. I don't think it was the actual undefeated season, but just before or after that, and those guys were already living legends. And like ForeverFan with the Jim Plunkett story, we went and watched them leave, just some plain NOPD barricades between us and them, and those guys looked so badass and mean up close. Guys were limping, bruised, hobbling down the tunnel into the showers, just like the famous Mean Joe Greene commercial, LOL. But now I look back at it this way: that classic Dolphins team, had the same kind of swagger that our guys have now....

st thomas · 03-14-2011, 02:04 PM

this thread is really cool. i had to ask my mother how did my dad get tickets to my first saints game which was the first in tulane stadium, remembering we were'nt set as with money to afford things like that. here cames the cool part. my old man was a ford car salesman at the time and he was involved with the areas Punt,Pass,& Kick competition which was sponsered by ford at the time and the tickets were a promo award given to him. my mom told my dad to bring me instead of her, man it just blew me away, thanks pop i know ur in heaven.

skymike · 03-16-2011, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by st thomas

this thread is really cool. i had to ask my mother how did my dad get tickets to my first saints game which was the first in tulane stadium, remembering we were'nt set as with money to afford things like that. here cames the cool part. my old man was a ford car salesman at the time and he was involved with the areas Punt,Pass,& Kick competition which was sponsered by ford at the time and the tickets were a promo award given to him. my mom told my dad to bring me instead of her, man it just blew me away, thanks pop i know ur in heaven.

Your Dad & Buddy D up there rooting for our Saints, Tommy.
Nice story. Thanks. So what stuck out in your head about the Stadium and the game experience, when you were a kid?

Saint_LB · 03-17-2011, 06:39 AM

OK...here's my Tulane Stadium story. I know you all have been anxiously waiting!

I was in high school and my best friend's girlfriend's father (she was my girlfriend about 5 years previously for about a week) took my friend and I to a game. I guess his wife and daughter didn't want to come that week.

Anyway, I remember the game was against the Cardinals when they were the St. Louis Cardinals, and if my memory serves me correct, Jim Hart was the QB at the time. I remember one thing in particular about this game because it was one of the few times that I've seen any team try what I believe is called a free-kick. You are allowed to try a FG unopposed, another words, the other team cannot rush, if you try it on first down just after your team has received a punt and called for a fair catch...which was the situation that day. They elected to do this because there was only a couple of seconds left on the clock before halftime. I don't remember whether they made it or not...but that's not the story.

The story is regarding the guy that took us to the game. Just before half, he decided to go to the concession stands and get us all a soft drink and peanuts or whatever. While I was watching the game, my buddy starts poking me in the ribs and laughing. I turned to him and said, "What?"
He is pointing down the aisle...we were sitting in the first 3 seats next to the aisle down towards the concession stands. When I looked, I see the guy that took us to the game preceeding down the aisle and he is about 10 rows or so down from us. Stuck to the back of his pants was a wad of gum, and trailing him from his pants all the way back to his seat was a string of gum. It was hilarious. I guess he wanted to make sure that he could find his way back to his seat.

skymike · 03-18-2011, 06:09 AM

Love it. Thanks, LB. I would bet money you saw Jim Hart.
I saw a "free-kick" once on MNF. Dallas did it in the 80s once, out of desperation. It failed.

I know you've got another one in your memory bank, when you feel like it.

st thomas · 03-21-2011, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by skymike

Your Dad & Buddy D up there rooting for our Saints, Tommy.
Nice story. Thanks. So what stuck out in your head about the Stadium and the game experience, when you were a kid?

mike , it was the most people i've seen in my life, i remember holding my dads pants pocket so i would'nt lose him getting to our seats, we were on the saints side about the 25 yardline 20 rows up about.it was so loud,nothing like the dome. i was in jaw dropping mode for the game. the uniforms were the best i ever saw. i remember my dad loved jimmy taylor because he loved him at lsu. i later became a abramowich fan. gillium ran back kick right in front of us. it was pandomonium. can't remember if we won or loss. i was 9 lol

nevergiveup3 · 03-15-2011, 08:29 AM

Sts Bro's post reminded me of another story. The locker rooms were under the stadium and the players would walk, as he said, between the NOPD barricades. You could reach out and slap hands or get a chin strap which was awesome.

Anyway towards the end of his career, Danny Abramowich (sp??) asked to be traded to SF so he could play with a winner... Well as fate would have it they had a lousy year and we had a "great year" by our standards back then... maybe 6 wins.... So anyway I made my way down to the barricades where SF passed and yelled.. "Hey Danny... how's life with the winners??" He stopped and I thought he was going to be pissed, and just smiled and waived the peace sign.....

ALLSAINTS66 · 03-19-2011, 06:50 AM

Yanno y'all, the Dome *does* have the equivalent of metal bleachers as far as sound! If you sit in the VERY LAST SEATS AT THE TOP, you can bang on the metal wall behind you like a mofo. Highly recommended fun!!! : D

skymike · 03-19-2011, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by ALLSAINTS66

Yanno y'all, the Dome *does* have the equivalent of metal bleachers as far as sound! If you sit in the VERY LAST SEATS AT THE TOP, you can bang on the metal wall behind you like a mofo. Highly recommended fun!!! : D

HAHAHAHAHA... So YOU are that guy! I see you all the time. You've been there since the 80's.

If you are sitting on the top row, and you are NOT banging the wall, you are not doing your job. Please trade seats with a fan who will do it.

ALLSAINTS66 · 03-21-2011, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by skymike

HAHAHAHAHA... So YOU are that guy! I see you all the time. You've been there since the 80's.

If you are sitting on the top row, and you are NOT banging the wall, you are not doing your job. Please trade seats with a fan who will do it.

Faddarekkid, I'm that *chick*, but as far as noise, who cares
who's makin' it, as long as it's MADE! But I agree with you,
if you're goin' to sit in the last row and not be part of that
racket, trade seats with someone who will. It's AWESOME
NOISE!!!

03-14-2011, 02:04 PM	#2
st thomas Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: lafayette Posts: 7,753	this thread is really cool. i had to ask my mother how did my dad get tickets to my first saints game which was the first in tulane stadium, remembering we were'nt set as with money to afford things like that. here cames the cool part. my old man was a ford car salesman at the time and he was involved with the areas Punt,Pass,& Kick competition which was sponsered by ford at the time and the tickets were a promo award given to him. my mom told my dad to bring me instead of her, man it just blew me away, thanks pop i know ur in heaven.
	thats the fact jack!!!!!

03-16-2011, 06:21 AM	#3
skymike E. Side Cholo Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Barrio, H-town Posts: 6,089	Originally Posted by st thomas this thread is really cool. i had to ask my mother how did my dad get tickets to my first saints game which was the first in tulane stadium, remembering we were'nt set as with money to afford things like that. here cames the cool part. my old man was a ford car salesman at the time and he was involved with the areas Punt,Pass,& Kick competition which was sponsered by ford at the time and the tickets were a promo award given to him. my mom told my dad to bring me instead of her, man it just blew me away, thanks pop i know ur in heaven. Your Dad & Buddy D up there rooting for our Saints, Tommy. Nice story. Thanks. So what stuck out in your head about the Stadium and the game experience, when you were a kid?

03-17-2011, 06:39 AM	#4
Saint_LB Deuce Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2,894	OK...here's my Tulane Stadium story. I know you all have been anxiously waiting! I was in high school and my best friend's girlfriend's father (she was my girlfriend about 5 years previously for about a week) took my friend and I to a game. I guess his wife and daughter didn't want to come that week. Anyway, I remember the game was against the Cardinals when they were the St. Louis Cardinals, and if my memory serves me correct, Jim Hart was the QB at the time. I remember one thing in particular about this game because it was one of the few times that I've seen any team try what I believe is called a free-kick. You are allowed to try a FG unopposed, another words, the other team cannot rush, if you try it on first down just after your team has received a punt and called for a fair catch...which was the situation that day. They elected to do this because there was only a couple of seconds left on the clock before halftime. I don't remember whether they made it or not...but that's not the story. The story is regarding the guy that took us to the game. Just before half, he decided to go to the concession stands and get us all a soft drink and peanuts or whatever. While I was watching the game, my buddy starts poking me in the ribs and laughing. I turned to him and said, "What?" He is pointing down the aisle...we were sitting in the first 3 seats next to the aisle down towards the concession stands. When I looked, I see the guy that took us to the game preceeding down the aisle and he is about 10 rows or so down from us. Stuck to the back of his pants was a wad of gum, and trailing him from his pants all the way back to his seat was a string of gum. It was hilarious. I guess he wanted to make sure that he could find his way back to his seat.
Saint_LB Deuce Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2,894	Whether you think you can or think you can't...you're right!

03-21-2011, 12:15 PM	#6
st thomas Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: lafayette Posts: 7,753	Originally Posted by skymike Your Dad & Buddy D up there rooting for our Saints, Tommy. Nice story. Thanks. So what stuck out in your head about the Stadium and the game experience, when you were a kid? mike , it was the most people i've seen in my life, i remember holding my dads pants pocket so i would'nt lose him getting to our seats, we were on the saints side about the 25 yardline 20 rows up about.it was so loud,nothing like the dome. i was in jaw dropping mode for the game. the uniforms were the best i ever saw. i remember my dad loved jimmy taylor because he loved him at lsu. i later became a abramowich fan. gillium ran back kick right in front of us. it was pandomonium. can't remember if we won or loss. i was 9 lol
	thats the fact jack!!!!!

03-15-2011, 08:29 AM	#7
nevergiveup3 100th Post Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 101	Sts Bro's post reminded me of another story. The locker rooms were under the stadium and the players would walk, as he said, between the NOPD barricades. You could reach out and slap hands or get a chin strap which was awesome. Anyway towards the end of his career, Danny Abramowich (sp??) asked to be traded to SF so he could play with a winner... Well as fate would have it they had a lousy year and we had a "great year" by our standards back then... maybe 6 wins.... So anyway I made my way down to the barricades where SF passed and yelled.. "Hey Danny... how's life with the winners??" He stopped and I thought he was going to be pissed, and just smiled and waived the peace sign.....
nevergiveup3 100th Post Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 101

03-14-2011, 01:43 PM	#1
SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	I don't know which game it was, but there was one time when AL Hirt cussed like a sailor after some bad Saints play, which got picked up by the microphone that he would blow his trumpet into, and thus a string of Hirt-ful profanity got broadcast over the stadium PA... I was reeeeally young, probably my first game, but I remember seeing the Dolphins kinda beat up on the Saints at Tulane Stadium during their heyday. Bob Griese, Larry Czonka, Mercury Morris, the No Name defense, all those dudes. I don't think it was the actual undefeated season, but just before or after that, and those guys were already living legends. And like ForeverFan with the Jim Plunkett story, we went and watched them leave, just some plain NOPD barricades between us and them, and those guys looked so badass and mean up close. Guys were limping, bruised, hobbling down the tunnel into the showers, just like the famous Mean Joe Greene commercial, LOL. But now I look back at it this way: that classic Dolphins team, had the same kind of swagger that our guys have now....

03-18-2011, 06:09 AM	#5
skymike E. Side Cholo Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Barrio, H-town Posts: 6,089	Love it. Thanks, LB. I would bet money you saw Jim Hart. I saw a "free-kick" once on MNF. Dallas did it in the 80s once, out of desperation. It failed. I know you've got another one in your memory bank, when you feel like it.

03-19-2011, 06:50 AM	#8
ALLSAINTS66 Bless You Boys! Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In mah hause. Posts: 319	Yanno y'all, the Dome does have the equivalent of metal bleachers as far as sound! If you sit in the VERY LAST SEATS AT THE TOP, you can bang on the metal wall behind you like a mofo. Highly recommended fun!!! : D

03-19-2011, 11:57 AM	#9
skymike E. Side Cholo Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Barrio, H-town Posts: 6,089	Originally Posted by ALLSAINTS66 Yanno y'all, the Dome does have the equivalent of metal bleachers as far as sound! If you sit in the VERY LAST SEATS AT THE TOP, you can bang on the metal wall behind you like a mofo. Highly recommended fun!!! : D HAHAHAHAHA... So YOU are that guy! I see you all the time. You've been there since the 80's. If you are sitting on the top row, and you are NOT banging the wall, you are not doing your job. Please trade seats with a fan who will do it.

03-21-2011, 10:42 AM	#10
ALLSAINTS66 Bless You Boys! Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In mah hause. Posts: 319	Originally Posted by skymike HAHAHAHAHA... So YOU are that guy! I see you all the time. You've been there since the 80's. If you are sitting on the top row, and you are NOT banging the wall, you are not doing your job. Please trade seats with a fan who will do it. Faddarekkid, I'm that chick, but as far as noise, who cares who's makin' it, as long as it's MADE! But I agree with you, if you're goin' to sit in the last row and not be part of that racket, trade seats with someone who will. It's AWESOME NOISE!!!