Your Top 5 Cajun Field Memories

[facelessjonmoon]

The UAB win was 2002. It was bustles first win.

Yep. Can confirm.

That was a big win at the time. UAB had beaten us pretty bad in 2000 in Birmingham and they also won in BR that year.

We took it to them all game in the return game in 02

[fanof71]

Here's one that's not going to be on anyone's list:

2003, loss to UH. 21-14.

It rained. And had a rain delay. Then it rained some more. The field was sloshy. The student section was basically a waterfall from each row to the next. My Nokia phone was toast. The band played for the entire rain delay. And I ended up marrying the girl who stood on the front row with me for the whole thing.

Nice story....

[RedTails]

2011 against ULM (if that's the one where PeeWee scooped up the onside kick) is up there for me.

I also got to watch the Kansas State win in 2009 from the president's box, which was an all-time memory for me.

Also a home game against MTSU when a friend (infrequent poster here) tried to give Dwight Dasher a giant publishers clearing house check for his gambling debts.

[sportsfanatic21]

There was a game against NLU where the Cajuns were down BIG at half. And Dwight Prudhomme led a furious 2nd half comeback to win.

I wanna say it was early 80s. That second half was a blast to watch.

A&M win was magical. Far and away my #1

[Cajunchuck]

1) Cajuns beat Texas A&M in 1996
2) SBC championship game
3) Cajuns erase 26-0 halftime deficit to Northeast (ULM) and come back to win behind play of Dwight Prudhomme (best game I attended as a UL student)
4) Brian Mitchell beating Ark. St.
5) Not on anyone's list but mine - Cajuns lose 37-0 to McNeese in 1973 at my first game at Cajun Field. The only game I ever attended with my Dad at Cajun Field. I was 10 years old and it started my sports hatred of McNeese.

[Jacob81]

1 A&M
2 Kansas state
3 conference champ
4 southern (record crowd)
5 UAB ( rain and drunk)
6a ULM onside comeback
6b Fenroys record against north Texas.

Wish I’d have seen some Brian Mitchell games.

[ZoomZoom]

Alabama and the first Oklahoma State game. Left both feeling like the Cajuns belonged with the big boys. Few years later, USL popped that balloon with a toothpick.

A&M in retrospect, not as much simply because the turnover margin was so great. No excuse to lose a game where the opponent gift wraps it for you.

[Geaux]

2009 - Kansas St (W)
- High expectations for KSU's Josh Freeman. 17th overall to Tampa Bay. Rainy night.

2011 - ULM (W)
- We held the rope and Ladarius Green came through!

2002 - UAB (W)
- We beat the brakes off of Roddy White and UAB. 34-0

2004 - North Texas (L)
- Jemario Thomas ran for 200+ yards that Friday night. He was special.

2009 - Southern (W)
- Packed house!

[JamesTheJeweler]

"3 - NIU, 1994. Some were saying Leshon Johnson was the best RB in the country. One play, he breaks through the line and immediately is knocked into next week by Orlando Thomas. The hardest hit I have ever seen in my life. It literally echoed in the stadium."

Man! I remember this game and that hit!!!! I was 21. Seems like an eternity ago.

[Swamp]

Cajuns crushing UAB in a rainstorm (I hate to use something from the Baldwin era, but it was a great game).

I was there. Terrible but good duck hunting weather is what i remember like yesterday. I had become unbelievable die hard Cajuns Football fan at this point. Top of student section in rain, frat bro shows up from the house (glynn abel dr) wearing a Bama shirt and I said look at the scoreboard, even though we were terrible, that day we weren't, and he became a die hard Cajun Football fan too. Tore the shirt and threw it on a step.