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re: Let's pretend y'all weren't the "Tigers"......
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:48 am to tigerdup07
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:48 am to tigerdup07
Nutria - LSU Swamp Rats. Nahhhh - we are the Bayou Bengals. Fightin' Tigahs.
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Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:49 am to UFownstSECsince1950
LSU Tigers. Won't let myself think about anything else. Blasphemy.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:49 am to 2007lsuno1
Gators in a pen are whack. They stink and just lay their cold-blooded asses around all day. Mike struts around, climbs, and rips things to shreds.
No contest: Tigers
No contest: Tigers
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:50 am to UFownstSECsince1950
LSU Mud dogs 
I wouldn't want anything but a tiger as our mascot. Just go look at him he is by far the baddest mascot on any college campus.
I wouldn't want anything but a tiger as our mascot. Just go look at him he is by far the baddest mascot on any college campus.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:50 am to 2007lsuno1
I would rather not be a GAYtor...
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:51 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Interesting thread UF1950.
It is thought-provoking to think of the Louisiana Gators (has sort of a ring to it :)
But I think that 'Tigers' while being a somewhat boring, pedestrian, general mascot, was probably popular in 1893 because of its connation to the "Fighting Band of Louisiana Tigers" who distinguished themselves in the Civil War.
Also, the moniker "Fightin' or Fighting Tigers" got it's start and/or was added to Tigers after WWII when Louisiana fighter pilots saved lives and shot down Japanese planes. One of their aircraft was actually named "Fighting Tiger."
And I absolutely LOVE the Mike the Tiger tradition. We are on our sixth live tiger - this one being a Siberian/Bengal tiger mix who was originally the house pet of the adminstrators of the Great Cats of Indiana Sanctuary - who donated him to LSU.
Mike VI's Habitat is sick. He is cared for the LSU Vet School, and he loves to put his paws up to the glass when visitors, esp. kids, come by.
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It is thought-provoking to think of the Louisiana Gators (has sort of a ring to it :)
But I think that 'Tigers' while being a somewhat boring, pedestrian, general mascot, was probably popular in 1893 because of its connation to the "Fighting Band of Louisiana Tigers" who distinguished themselves in the Civil War.
Also, the moniker "Fightin' or Fighting Tigers" got it's start and/or was added to Tigers after WWII when Louisiana fighter pilots saved lives and shot down Japanese planes. One of their aircraft was actually named "Fighting Tiger."
And I absolutely LOVE the Mike the Tiger tradition. We are on our sixth live tiger - this one being a Siberian/Bengal tiger mix who was originally the house pet of the adminstrators of the Great Cats of Indiana Sanctuary - who donated him to LSU.
Mike VI's Habitat is sick. He is cared for the LSU Vet School, and he loves to put his paws up to the glass when visitors, esp. kids, come by.
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Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:51 am to TigerWoody
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TigerWoody
take away the fact that ull has it now and you can't deny that "ragin cajuns" would have been a fantastic mascot for lsu. hell, all the announcers refer to our fanbase as cajuns now.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:53 am to TigerWoody
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:53 am to UFownstSECsince1950
When I was an ignorant child who did not know the reasoning behind the name Tigers, I always wondered why not the gators. However, after knowing the history of the soldiers the mascot is picked to represent, it makes me feel proud to be a tiger. Auburn should be the the one that change. They are the ones named after a line in a stupid poem...
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:54 am to MetryTyger
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MetryTyger
Great response
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:54 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Mizzou Tigers
LSU Tigahs
Auburn Plainsmen/War Eagle/whoknowswhatthefrickweare
I see no problem
LSU Tigahs
Auburn Plainsmen/War Eagle/whoknowswhatthefrickweare
I see no problem
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:55 am to tigerdup07
quote:Yes, I can. I am one half cajun and absolutely love that part of my lineage. However, the only way I would want that name for my school would be if we were called the LSU Muthafrickin' Crazy Coonasses.
you can't deny that "ragin cajuns" would have been a fantastic mascot for lsu
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:56 am to TigerWoody
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They were the honey badgers of the war before anyone knew what the hell a honey badger was.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:56 am to Bmath
I say we should be the Fightin' Mo Isoms since she aint skeered to take on anybody.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:56 am to TigerWoody
We could take a page from Auburn's playbook. Official name would be Gators, but our mascot would be a tiger - that way, we still get the intimidation factor when the other team comes out of the tunnel. And before every game we'd release a flock of brown pelicans to fly around the stadium.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:57 am to tigerchad11
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Fightin' Meaux Isoms
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:58 am to Cold Cous Cous
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:58 am to Oxidized Iron
quote:
Mizzou Tigers
LSU Fightin' Tigahs
Auburn Plainsmen/War Eagle/whoknowswhatthefrickweare
FIFY
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:58 am to Cold Cous Cous
quote:Then we could be schizo like them.
Cold Cous Cous
Posted on 10/5/11 at 9:59 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Mud Dogs
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