Seventy seasons is more than a habit — it’s a lifetime woven in purple and gold.

LSU has been playing football since 1893 — that's 132 years of football. Baton Rouge's Bitsy Hadskey, 88, has been there for 70 seasons.

The roar of Tiger Stadium is her favorite song.

Her real name is Dolores Hadskey, but everyone calls her Bitsy. She bought her first LSU season ticket package in the fall of 1955. She has renewed them every year since. Until this football season, she had missed only six games — most of those for what she calls "legitimate reasons," including the birth of a child and the death of her husband.

But at the beginning of this season, Hadskey was told she would have to begin dialysis and wouldn’t be able to go to the games.

Though she has since recovered enough to avoid dialysi

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