Your Top 5 Cajun Field Memories

[CajunVic]

"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.

It was . . .

[Big Buds]

1) SBC Championship Game
2) aTm
3) ULM miracle
4) Brad McGuire stAte comeback
5) Fall of ‘95, while in 8th grade, me and some buddies broke into CF early Sunday morning after a home game and scored a live tap of cold beer. We filled about 5 empty gallon jugs and stashed them in an ice chest. We snuck out the following weekend and got drunk as hell and had a couple lung darts…good times.

Honorable mention: K-State

[AirBill]

5. Another "no one else's but mine" game: Fresno State, 9-10-77. Cajuns win 34-13. I was in the Cub Scouts, and we got to walk on the field before the game. Went to Alesi's after the game, and saw my then-hero Rafael Septien in person. A star-studded evening for a 10-year-old.

4. Alabama, 10-6-90. Not a great game, but a great atmosphere.

3. Oklahoma State, 9-6-86. Sophomore year, remember sitting behind OSU bench and hounding Thurman Thomas all game long. My first real big-time college football experience.

2. Middle Tennessee, 12-3-08. Cajuns won 42-28, but it's big for me because it was the only time I got to see Fenroy in person. Also, it was senior night, and if I remember correctly, that's when he found out UL was putting him in the ring of honor. Very emotional for him. On top of it all, it was the first game I was able to bring my then 3-year-old son to. Lots of feels watching him play on the north hill.

1. Texas A&M, 9-14-96. Cajuns win 29-22. 'Nuff said.

[JayWalker]

Someone mentioned NIU in the freezing cold in 90...but that was in DeKalb.

This isn't easy. But for me........

Cajun Field memories aren't always wins.

5. Nelson Stokley's first game as head coach. Mike Gundy to Hart Lee Dykes. Most gut-wrenching loss I can remember at the Swamp. 1986. Was there as a fan.

4. The crowd for the Southern game in 2009. Yeah, they brought a lot of folks. But the atmosphere was unreal.

3. ULM 2011. We were done. Until we weren't. Brett Baer was the master of the onside kick.

2. Texas A&M. Frankly I think the Iowa State win on the road was bigger (in fact, I KNOW it was), but a great atmosphere...and Jake motioning for everyone to come on the field at the end.

1. The SBC title game. Nothing like winning a championship. And, it wasn't a fluke.

[RaginDave]

Someone mentioned NIU in the freezing cold in 90...but that was in DeKalb.

This isn't easy. But for me........

Cajun Field memories aren't always wins.

5. Nelson Stokley's first game as head coach. Mike Gundy to Hart Lee Dykes. Most gut-wrenching loss I can remember at the Swamp. 1986. Was there as a fan.

4. The crowd for the Southern game in 2009. Yeah, they brought a lot of folks. But the atmosphere was unreal.

3. ULM 2011. We were done. Until we weren't. Brett Baer was the master of the onside kick.

2. Texas A&M. Frankly I think the Iowa State win on the road was bigger (in fact, I KNOW it was), but a great atmosphere...and Jake motioning for everyone to come on the field at the end.

1. The SBC title game. Nothing like winning a championship. And, it wasn't a fluke.

https://ragincajuns.com/sports/football/schedule/1990

Nope 1990 was a home game. It was very cold in Lafayette that night, but I was drinking heavily so I might not remember 100% correctly, but I know it was a home game.

We won 24-20 according to ragincajuns.com. Again, I don't remember much about the game, but I remember we won and it was cold.

[JayWalker]

https://ragincajuns.com/sports/football/schedule/1990

Nope 1990 was a home game. It was very cold in Lafayette that night, but I was drinking heavily so I might not remember 100% correctly, but I know it was a home game.

Ah.....good get. I was remembering the game in DeKalb where the wind chill was well below zero. That must have been in '91.

[CajunNation]

Ah.....good get. I was remembering the game in DeKalb where the wind chill was well below zero. That must have been in '91.

That game was on TV on either KADN or some other UHF channel. All I could get was a grainy picture, but I saw Nash score!

[MelRock]

Someone mentioned NIU in the freezing cold in 90...but that was in DeKalb.

Here in Lafayette in 1990, as Dave mentioned. Low in the 40's, high in the 70s. This is the days forecast, I do not see what the actual temperatures were that evening.

[Boomer]

That game was on TV on either KADN or some other UHF channel. All I could get was a grainy picture, but I saw Nash score!

[Jeaux]

Ah.....good get. I was remembering the game in DeKalb where the wind chill was well below zero. That must have been in '91.

Yeah 91 was in Dekalb. Ironically I was only 20 miles away at the time but I was too young to drive or else I would have gone. I remember trick or treating the day before or something and temperature just dropping. Froze all my candies together but I was happy cause everything just shut down but I still had my stash. LOL.