re: I hate seeing our fans wearing Mardi Gras beads

"did I reply to your message, "Cap"?"

Uhh . . . no sir *tips hat*


Anyway this is directed towards the group: old school means that you realize that the majority of the fanbase may hold a different view than your own old school view. Being old school doesn't mean that you think that the new way of doing things sucks or is wrong in any way . .it's just that being old school means that you prefer things in the "retro" "old schoold" way . . . probably because you might be older than today's LSU students.

Thatis all.

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I hate seeing some on here bitch about our fans making LSU the special, very fun fan base that it is.

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Just seems really "hokey" to see people from La wearing beads when it's not Mardi Gras

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I agree with you there buddy. Especially when they are walking around Rosenblatt throwing beads around like they are in a parade. I mean, if you're from Louisiana then you must have a stash of Mardi Gras bead at your house, right?

Every Louisianian has a bag of beads at home just like every Leprechaun has a pot of gold.

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I disagree. The Mardi Gras beads are seen as indigenous to Louisiana and associated, by outsiders, in a very favorable way with LSU. It reinforces that "let the good times roll" perception that people have about LSU fans. The same cannot be said for people wearing them at NASCAR events.

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+1

Also better than those stupid oversized cowboy hats with the horns on the front.

The LSU Superman & Batman are cool too. Whoever they are.

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Just seems really "hokey" to see people from La wearing beads when it's not Mardi Gras.

Kinda like seeing people at a NASCAR race with beads on

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Is this really important?

not so much different from other fans...i.e. cheeseheads, etc, etc ad nauseum

I love the beads...in fact, most other schools have copied LSU and have beads made in their school colors.Having travelled in the post-season with the football team & women's basketball team, handing out Mardi Gras beads is not only a tradition but also a way to make friends in the cities where post-season events are held. I once was hailed by a coliseum worker for beads in Knoxville while at a Regional...it's not hokey, it's Louisiana and I'm proud of my State, my Team, and My beads!

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Old school would also mean "glass beads" and very, very few throws at Mardi Gras, especially compared to todays parades.

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Glass Beads??!! Holy shite. I had completely forgotten about glass beads being thrown at Mardi Gras. You just reminded me.

Glass Beads are extremely old school. My earliest memories of Mardi Gras sitting on the home made seat at the top of the ladder do contain recollections of seeing only a few glass beads amongst our MG Day haul of four or five Schweggmann's bags full of stuff. Point is that glass beads were rare even in my earliest days in the mid-1960s, so, that's even more old school than I am.

Thanks for reminding me about glass beads being thrown on MG day . . . they definitely were thrown, and, when the string broke upon being caught, those glass beads made a mess !

only LSU fans from new orleans should be allowed to wear mardi gras beads to any sporting event. all other fans should be restricted to only wearing beads to events that take place in new orleans