THe Man Behind the Voice of LSU's Tiger Stadium

This is a pretty cool interview at Dan Borne': LSU's "Voice Of The Valley". He has been the Announcer there for 22 years which is pretty incredible. He shouts out such goodies that we love as "The Gooooooooooooooooollllllllden Band from Tigerland!!!" and"Here come your Fighting Tigers of LSU!" as well as other regular mantras we come to expect.

This part is pretty funny


What was the most memorable thing to happen in the Press Box that the fans may not know about?

Going back to that Auburn game after Hurricane Katrina, the students were on the field after the game and it was apparent that they weren't planning to leave anytime soon. The LSU band always plays a few songs after the game and students were dancing and going wild.
I made the announcement to please leave the field. It didn't have the desired affect. Then I get a call from Skip (Skip Bertman, former LSU Athletic Director and legendary LSU baseball coach) saying, "Voice" (he calls me Voice), he said "Voice, we need to get them students off the field, but they won't leave as long as the band is playing."

So we radioed down to the band director and told him to have the band stop playing. This really just upset the herd and they began chanting "Play, Play, Play, Play".
So the phone rings again and it's Skip. He says, "Voice, tell the band to play God Bless America. If they play God Bless America, the students will get the point and leave."

Back on the radio to the band director, "Skip says to play God Bless America then wrap it up." A minute goes by and the girl on the other end of the radio says, "They don't know God Bless America."

Well, I really didn't want to be the one to tell Skip Bertman that the Golden Band from Tigerland didn't know God Bless America, but I had no choice. "Coach, they don't know God Bless America."

After a brief silence from Skip's end, I said: "Well coach, I don't think it means they don't know it, I think it just means they don't have the sheet music for it." (Nice save!)
So ultimately, the band played on for a few more minutes and then shut it down. The crowd eventually left the stadium and began roaming the streets of Tiger Town until class the following Monday.