", — Travis Haney (@travhaney) October 14, 2012, RELATED: LSU’s 2019 Football Schedule Looks Promising for a SEC Title Run. Well, that depends. with Tiger Stadium checking in at No. Gradually the reporters, television and other media have transformed the deaf valley to Death Valley which was incorrectly referred and remained as such thereafter. , Dr. Howard Fields, No Comment, January 1, 2018

Who gives a rats ass what lsu stadium is called Alabama owns that place anyhow check the record books, January 6, 2018 When the University of Louisiana played against University of Florida in 2007 October 6th the CBS channel recorded the noise levels in the stadium as 130 decibels.

Its where for years mainly unranked OOC teams get killed in nighttime games (no TV) ! This name was later applied to LSU accidentally.

Charleston, SC 29403, News tips/online questions: newstips@postandcourier.com, Delivery/subscription questions: subserve@postandcourier.com. If you’re on the road in college football, there is one place you definitely don’t want to play, and that is against the LSU Tigers on Saturday night in Death Valley. Yahoo ist Teil von Verizon Media. Lots of teams borrowed traditions from Clemson. 18 Jersey Became LSU’s Most Important Tradition. High 77F. The deaf valley name was given to this stadium earlier in order to differentiate it from the other university stadium called Clemson memorial stadium. It was called as Death Valley as there was large cheering during games. Showers and thunderstorms. LSU, on the other hand, reportedly didn’t pick up the Death Valley name until 1959, when the Tigers defeated Clemson in the Sugar Bowl to win the national title. There is one Clemson player, though, who has been to both stadiums and is firm on which one deserves the official nickname. But Clemson won the last time they played — the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta — on a last-second field goal. It was called as Death Valley as there was large cheering during games. Various other lists ranking the toughest venues to play in for opposing teams have included LSU and Clemson near the top.

Our readers voted on Charleston's best. But Clemson’s fans have hit a decibel level of 132.8, according to 247Sports, roughly equivalent to a military jet taking off from 50 feet away, and just ahead of LSU’s 130.

For example, Auburn borrowed their color orange and their mascot, the Tigers. 2 in first installment of College Football Playoff rankings. Death Valley[edit] The nickname "Death Valley" for Memorial Stadium, derives both from Death Valley National Park in California as well as the location of the Clemson University cemetery on a hill that once overlooked the field—before the upper decks were constructed.

“That was Death Valley.

Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field, which was located on the old LSU campus in Downtown Baton Rouge. Yes, the dorms are the structural reason why Death Valley is so insanely loud. Copyright @2020 TigerDroppings.com. Clemson is the real “Death Valley”. Tiger stadium is considered as the best for the Louisiana State University football games. According to Bud Johnson, the SID from 1966-71, LSU only started calling itself Death Valley after the SEC Tigers swiped it from the ACC Tigers … The exact origin of LSU’s Tiger Stadium first being called Death Valley is tough to find, but it was in 1959 that it first became a thing. Clemson's Memorial Stadium has been called "Death Valley" since the 1940s. You have permission to edit this article. That was the place where opponents’ dreams go to die,” he once said. , Jecinta Morgan

However, the timing of that gas station name is unclear and would still give Clemson’s “Death Valley” the edge in history. In August 2018, when Clemson and LSU announced a home-and-home football series for 2025 and 2026, the inevitable question arose: Which team would claim the mantle of the “real” Death Valley for its stadium?

Clemson's Memorial Stadium. Everyone from fans and coaches to journalists have come to know Tiger Stadium as an impossible place to play because of how loud LSU fans are during games. But when it comes to which was the original Death Valley, an LSU sports information director from the 1960s says that honor belongs to Clemson. This noise levels were known to have made this stadium as second loudest college stadium next to the Husky stadium in Seattle at Washington. When a jovial, good-natured Clemson graduate, Sam Jones, took a trip to Death Valley, Calif., in the 1960s, he brought back a rock from his travels that he gave to Howard. Wir und unsere Partner nutzen Cookies und ähnliche Technik, um Daten auf Ihrem Gerät zu speichern und/oder darauf zuzugreifen, für folgende Zwecke: um personalisierte Werbung und Inhalte zu zeigen, zur Messung von Anzeigen und Inhalten, um mehr über die Zielgruppe zu erfahren sowie für die Entwicklung von Produkten. It was originally called Deaf Valley and it morphed into Death Valley or something like that. LSU Drops In The AP Top 25, Coaches Poll After Loss To Miss. The game time temperature was 91 degrees, making it the 5th hottest game time temperature in the history of LSU football. Damit Verizon Media und unsere Partner Ihre personenbezogenen Daten verarbeiten können, wählen Sie bitte 'Ich stimme zu.'