ABC 2015: In the Shadow of the Valley of Death

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Louisiana State University treated 60 Athletic Business Conference & Expo attendees to an all-access tour of the Baton Rouge campus’s expanding recreation and athletics facilities Wednesday, culminating in a ground-level view inside Tiger Stadium, known by local fans and visiting SEC rivals alike as Death Valley. Lsu Exterior

The stadium — with its towering windowed exterior (it housed dorm rooms until the mid-1980s… a clever means of securing state funding at the time of its 1924 construction, according to tour guide Katie Gerlach) and steeply raked seats — is quite possibly the most impressive spectator venue I have ever seen. I can’t imagine how 102,321 fans could be any closer to a playing field. 

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