BATON ROUGE — The second vinyl billboard was installed at Tiger Stadium this week onto the back of the South endzone scoreboard. Lamar Outdoor Advertising and Turner Industries attached the 119-foot wide sign after completing the North end on Aug. 16.
The gold billboard with purple and white lettering covers the back of the 3,600 square foot South scoreboard and features the new LSU Athletics visual identity and the words “Tiger Stadium” in LSU’s Geaux font. Also, the words “Geaux Tigers” appear below “LSU” in white with a purple background.
The background of the South end billboard was done in gold to accentuate the LSU logo and reduce the effect of fading from constant direct exposure to the sun on the south side.
“Since the scoreboards were installed, there’s always been a question about the blank areas on the back side of the scoreboards,” Senior Associate Athletics Director Dan Radakovich said. “We were able to complete this project with the help of TAF, Lamar Outdoor Advertising, and Turner Industries, and concurrence of the LSU Facilities Design and Development Committee.”
Tiger Stadium has been home to the Tigers football team since Nov. 25, 1924, when the LSU coach Mike Donahue’s team completed its home schedule against Tulane. LSU’s all-time record in the stadium entering the 2002 season is 323-135-18, a 69.7 winning percentage.
The stadium was expanded to its current capacity of 91,600 prior to the 2000 season when the East Side Expansion was completed, making it the fifth-largest on-campus stadium in the nation.
A record-crowd of 92,141 watched LSU defeat Auburn, 27-14, to clinch the Southeastern Conference Western Division on Dec. 1, 2001.
Other than the new billboards, summer of 2002 renovations include several new concession stands built and a handicapped seating area in the student section.