re: True Tiger Fans

i am 35. I grew up around university lakes. My grandmother (passed) would come over when i was little (wickersham and hodson days), she bled P and G all her life, didn't matte what sport or how bad they were doing. Then with archer and currly it got really bad, but that was ok cause tickets were CHEAP!! and the game only a couple blocks away!!!


One of the best post i have read in a long time maybe ever. It wasn't about the really fast good players (cause we never really got very many), it was about our boys out there fighting for us. You, me, everyone. The goaline stands, eddie kennison on the returns and of course my favorite, hodson throwing touchdown passes. We may not of won them all, but we were going to fight like hell trying


I also think dinardo should take a little credit for turning the program into what it is today. He made sabans job a little easier. Granny used to call him the "nose"

Freak those negatigers and bangwangtigers. Please geaux support another team.

frankly, imo, if you wanna define TRUE fan, you want your football team to succeed. You want them to have a great leader to lead them in their fight, and you expect excellence, because if you don't....what's the point right? Nobody plays for second place.

Now, I don't mind positivity, and I root for the Tigers every time they play, whether I'm in the stadium, tailgating, or when I'm away and forced to watch on TV/computer/etc.

However, as a true fan, if you saw your prized team, the team you follow so closely and invest so much of your time/money/resources into, fall on their faces repeatedly, it hurts. It SHOULD hurt. If it doesn't, something is wrong with you. Obviously, it certainly means you aren't motivated to win enough, because the thought of losing does nothing to hinder the positive spirits of the ever optimistic yet gullible bandwagon fan.

For those of that know how it feels to be on the losing end of the stick, we don't want to go back there. We hate to see these kids who have put their time and effort into coming to this university for their education and to put their talents to good use on the football field squandered by a man who has singlehandedly been the butt of more jokes on ESPN and the national media in one week than any other coach I've seen here at LSU.

Now, if it doesn't make you wince to think about how that makes you feel, to see a football game on where even the commentators poke fun at your football team due to a lack of fricking leadership, then you can go ahead and decide that the purple and gold glasses fit just fine, drink your koolaid, and enjoy LSU's good name getting drug through every national outlet so far.

I hope it galvanizes the players. I hope they beat everyone's motherfricking arse this year in spite of the idiocy that is Les Miles. I root for those students every time they're on the field, and I pray that Miles will get the frick out of their way. I hope the media storm this week (b/c trust me they aren't blind to it) lights the fire that helps them rip Florida to shreds and send Alabama back to hell from whence it came.

But I'll be damned if I see one more person try to dismiss this shite as "well let's stop being negative and just enjoy the year." Goddammit, if you're a real fricking fan, it should tear you up inside to see those students running around not knowing what to do time after time after time. It's not fair to them, it's not really fair to Miles himself, it's not fair to this university and it's not fair to us as fans.

For frick's sake, be proud to be a goddamn Tiger.

Amen brother!!!

Nice post. I'll be there on saturday sitting in the Uf sky box. I will make damned sure Uf understands what a Tiger fan is all about.

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This is some of the dumbest crap I've ever read.

So in order to be a "true fan," one must be detrimentally naive to the problems with the current coaching staff?

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True americans don't question the president.

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Let us RALLY around our Tigers


with a pocket full of shells?

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Should be our theme song.

I agree with the OP

Love Me Some LSU.

Good post. Everybody bitches about the coaching etc... that is only natural. But some of you want miles to fail just to say told you so. How is that good for LSU? And whoever said they never left a game early in 25 years in lying.