Thirty years after I graduated from LSU, my sons, Matt and Adam, showed their Tiger spirit in a very unique way. While attending LSU, they rented a house near campus and late one night decided to move a desk from our home to their new home. In the top drawer of the desk was an envelope that contained Matt’s tickets to all of the LSU games that season, both home and away! They secured the desk in the back of their truck and took off down Highland Road. Somehow, the drawer flew open and when they got to their house, they realized that the tickets were gone! In desperation, they spent the rest of the night searching Highland Road, shining flashlights from the back of the truck as it travelled up and down Highland but to no avail. The next morning, they started walking south from the intersection at Lee, determined to walk every inch of Highland Road! Finally, eight miles later, they found the envelope! It had come open and the tickets were scattered over a fifty yard section on either side of Highland Road. One of them described it as the “wackiest Easter egg hunt ever”! They cheered and shouted out the name of each game as they found the ticket for it! They were joined in their celebration by motorists who honked their horns at the sight of two very happy fans shouting “Go Tigers!” and waving game tickets on the shoulders of Highland Road. In the weeks that followed, I had a number of friends tell me that “they couldn’t imagine why but they thought they had seen our sons shouting and waving game tickets on the shoulders of Highland Road.

–Ann Darphin Jennings, ‘76