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in dollars) $60 million (renovations) | architect = Wogan and Bernard Trahan Architects (renovations) | former_names = | tenants = LSU Tigers football (NCAA) (1924–present) New Orleans Saints (NFL) (2005) (Four games) South Carolina Gamecocks football (NCAA) (2015) (One game) | seating_capacity = 12,000 (1924–1930) 22,000 (1931–1935) 30,000 (1936) 46,000 (1937–1952) 67,720 (1953–1961) 67,508 (1962–1965) 67,510 (1966–1973) 67,720 (1974–1976) 67,744 (1977) 76,092 (1978–1983) 76,869 (1984–1985) 77,542 (1986) 78,882 (1987) 80,140 (1988–1992) 80,150 (1993) 79,940 (1994–1999) 91,600 (2000–2004) 92,300 (2005) 92,400 (2006–2010) 92,542 (2011–2013) 102,321 (2014–present) | record_attendance = 102,321 (Four times, most recently October 17, 2015 vs Florida) |}} Tiger Stadium, popularly known as Death Valley, is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is best known as the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field which was located on the old LSU Campus in Downtown Baton Rouge. Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924. Renovations and expansions have brought the stadium's current capacity to 102,321, making it the third largest stadium in the SEC, sixth largest stadium in the NCAA and the ninth largest stadium in the world. When filled to capacity, Tiger Stadium ranks as the fifth largest "city" by population in the state of Louisiana. ==Testimonials== Tiger Stadium is well known nationally for having among the best game day atmospheres in college football as well as being one of the most difficult places for an opposing team to play. Despite being 14–2 at Tiger Stadium, famed Alabama head coach Bear Bryant once remarked that "Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Rivals.com )〕 In 2001, ESPN sideline reporter Adrian Karsten said, "Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the loudest stadium I've ever been in."〔 In 2002, Miami (Ohio) coach Terry Hoeppner said of Tiger Stadium, "That's as exciting an environment as you can have ... we had communication problems we haven't had at Michigan and Ohio State."〔 In 2003, ESPN's Chris Fowler called LSU his favorite game day experience.〔 In 2009 former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee stated on Sean Hannity's Fox News show that "Unfair is playing LSU on a Saturday night in Baton Rouge." Survey after survey has concluded that Tiger Stadium is the most difficult place for a visiting team to play, including surveys by the College Football Association in 1987, ''The Sporting News'' in 1989, Gannett News Service in 1995, and ''Sport Magazine'' in 1998.〔 More recently, in 2007, ESPN named Tiger Stadium "the scariest place to play," saying that "Tiger Stadium is, by far, the loudest stadium in the country."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=ESPN )〕 In 2009, ESPN writer Chris Low listed Tiger Stadium's Saturday night atmosphere as unsurpassed in the country, ranking it No. 1 out of the conference's 12 stadiums.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=ESPN )〕 LSU prefers night games in Tiger Stadium with its opponents, but television coverage requires that many contests be played in the afternoons. The university is conflicted over maximizing its potential to win to needed advertising revenues from television coverage. As explained by Chet Hilburn in ''The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football'', "The Tigers are apt to win more games at night in Tiger Stadium but the university takes in much more revenue for a day game televised by CBS because of the Southeastern Conference contract with the network is so lucrative."〔Chet Hilburn, ''The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football'' (Bloomington, Indiana: WestBow Press, 2012), p. 89〕 In 2008, as Alabama narrowly defeated LSU, Wright Thompson of ESPN.com described Tiger Stadium as "the best place in the world to watch a sporting event."〔Hilburn, p. 7〕 In 2013, the NCAA ranked Tiger Stadium as the loudest stadium in all of college football.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=NCAA.com )〕 In 2014, the then-(3) ranked Ole Miss Rebels played the then-(24) ranked LSU Tigers on October 25. After the Tigers held the Rebels to only 7 points in a 10–7 victory, Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace stated, "It's a crazy atmosphere. This is the craziest place I've played."〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Courtney Cronin )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiger Stadium (LSU)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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