Re: when did you become a tiger...

typeClem · 2016-08-12T14:09:22.469Z

At what moment did you truly become a tiger. I dont mean just pulling for them to win and wearing shirts. I mean there was a moment when you knew this is my team and my family for life. For me it was watching the 98 clemson-fsu game. We didnt win but my dad and i watched it together. Both of us screaming and hollering the entire game like we were helping the team win lol. One of the happiest memories in my life. I realize it might sound odd to other people but that scene rolls through my head often. So whos next?

I think it was 1969. I was 7. My dad had come to Clemson married with 2 kids. Ray Yauger was in his classes. For those of you who never saw him run..wow! He was my hero. My dad set it up with Ray that I would meet him after a game. But Ray got hurt and had to leave the game early. My dad threw me over the wall as Ray was walking to the tunnel. I ran down the sideline..security was lax in those days. And yelled at him. He stopped, put his around around me and walked into the tunnel. I walked with him all the way to the locker room door. Neither of us said a word. He stopped, grimaced with pain, gave me his chin strap and said Go Tigers. Been bleeding Orange ever since.
Go Tigers!!
PS that was way before the mean joe green coke commercial

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1977/78. I was 10 or 11

Aug 12, 2016, 11:12 AM

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I watched the coaches' shows on Sundays and decided I liked the Paw, the orange, and Tiger Rag much more than the chicken, the dark red, and whatever their song is.
In pick up football games I was Steve Fuller.
My mother bought me a Clemson nylon button-up jacket, and when I moved to Florida in 1979 everyone asked, "Who is Clemson?" Of course, after the championship and the recruitment of the local star, Terrance Flagler, I wore that jacket more proudly than ever.
Almost enrolled at Clemson but had to stay in Charleston while a family medical situation played out; then my stepfather died in an accident, so a semester at CofC turned into a year, etc.

My son is a second year engineering student who has been a Tiger since he was two and yelled out "Go Tigers" during pre game warm ups at Williams-Brice (they were playing Kentucky). Couldn't figure out what made him do that until the following week, when we were driving down I-77 for the next SCar game, and he joined in with the guys on the Tiger Tailgate Show as they threw it over to Jim Phillips with a "Goooo Tigers!!!" A week or two later I decided he was ready for the road trip, and he's been attending Clemson games ever since. When he was about 10 or 11, we were at the Missouri game, and he asked me something about a rule or penalty or something like down-and-distance. At that time I knew he was a full fledged football fan, as interested in the game as he had been into running out into the fired after the game.

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when did you become a tiger...

1970 10 years old***

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