re: Would one of you mind telling me where the Tiger mascot came from?

Also while Claire Chennault was raised in Louisiana and went to ROTC at LSU, the Flying Tigers were a name given to the unit by the Empress of China. The Tiger represents the acme of fierceness in China, and she was impressed with how Chennault's unti was holding their own against overwhelming Japanese forces.

Those are shark's teeth on the planes, not tiger teeth.

SHHHHHHHHHHHH, they are Aggies not UT grads, they will never figure this out if you don't spell it out for them. (LOL)

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I always thought it was another generic choice.

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I believe all the other tiger mascots are, but not ours! History of our mascot is pre-ATM.

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War for Southern Independence.

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War to Perpetuate Slavery. Not all of us are proud of it.

well, ya gotta start with a male tiger

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War to Perpetuate Slavery.

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Vast oversimplification.

It was the war for Southern Independence.

That's how Lincoln saw it, which is why he refused to recognize the CSA as a new country. Until they defeated the North, they didn't earn their independence. As far as Lincoln was concerned, the only way a state could secede from the Union was to win independence the way the colonists had.

The slavery issue was settled once and for all by a Constitutional amendment. But you can't force people to love their neighbors, which is why it took another 100 years for people of color to win the right to vote, use the same facilities as whites, etc. And as Randy Newman sang about, blacks were treated just as poorly in many Northern cities. Here in Oregon, the Klan was rampant in the 1920s and blacks were forbidden to own homes in Portland except in certain neighborhoods. The South is far from alone in bearing the shame of the past.

I'm not proud of the way America treated people of color for centuries. But the Civil War was but a very small part of America's (and the whole world for that matter) long struggle with slavery and more akin to the American Revolution -- the difference being the South lost in its attempt at rebellion.

I was just in Gettysburg back in October and saw a house near Cemetery Hill that mentioned Louisiana's Tigers. They were famous...well known fighters, drinkers and ladies' men. The nickname is PERFECT for my alma mater.

I read here often, and never post, but anyone who thinks the War between the states was primarily fought over slavery is simply a devotee of political correctness, nothing else.

You need to read the history of the war, it was not about slavery but about something being argued to this day, Federalism, state's rights, and then slavery as an issue of state's sovereignty.

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I read here often, and never post, but anyone who thinks the War between the states was primarily fought over slavery is simply a devotee of political correctness, nothing else.

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This.

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saw a house near Cemetery Hill that mentioned Louisiana's Tigers

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The Louisiana Tigers attacked and seized Cemetery Hill on July 2nd, 1863. They were unable to maintain their position after the enemy brought up reinforcements, and, the Tigers, having no reinforcements from the rest of the Army, had to withdraw from the position later that day.

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Anybody know the history on that one? tia

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Anybody know the history on that one?

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Speaking of history of mascots... What the hell is an Aggie?