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re: Who is credited for starting the L sign?

Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:02 pm to
Posted by JJ27
Member since Sep 2004
60560 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:02 pm to
quote:

All I know is it started sometime while Coach O was the head coach.




This is from 2003…

Posted by lsushelly
Denham Springs
Member since Aug 2006
2866 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:09 pm to
Landers Nolley
Posted by bayou85
Concordia
Member since Sep 2016
8657 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:09 pm to
Jr high girls in the 90s?
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30804 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:47 pm to
quote:

All I know is it started sometime while Coach O was the head coach.




Predates O
Posted by how333
Member since Dec 2020
2582 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:48 pm to
Thomas Edison
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30804 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 4:49 pm to
Wrong as usual
Posted by paulb52
Member since Dec 2019
3766 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:06 pm to
Stands for Loser so I would let it ago.
Posted by BayouENGR
Seagrove Beach
Member since Nov 2015
2332 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

I get that he’s trying to do an L correctly but I can’t stand it.


Better than a backwards L, which makes the person look like a moronic loser
Posted by Sp0728
Your head
Member since Aug 2018
1561 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:19 pm to
Captain Crown
Posted by Superfluous Tiger
Houston
Member since Nov 2021
658 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:42 pm to
The university of Texas.

They’re the ones who motivated all the schools to come up with a hand gesture to represent their school because the longhorns had their thing and everybody else was jealous.
Posted by ike221
Loo A Vul
Member since Aug 2006
13705 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:44 pm to
Leonard fournette
Posted by ArkLaTexTiger
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
2473 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 5:48 pm to
I definitely noticed it more after the Texas Bowl vs Texas Tech held in 12/2015.
Posted by tigersbh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
10329 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 6:50 pm to
William Tecumseh Sherman
Posted by makinskrilla
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jun 2009
9728 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 6:51 pm to
I think ace ventura did it first
Posted by mytigger
Member since Jan 2008
14851 posts
Posted on 1/8/24 at 6:54 pm to
Seems like the Women’s track team started doing this decades ago
Posted by lsu711
Member since Sep 2003
13126 posts
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:10 pm to
1996 Preseason SI. So probably the 95 season.


Posted by paulb52
Member since Dec 2019
3766 posts
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:12 pm to
Loser
Posted by victoire sécurisé
Member since Nov 2012
4965 posts
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:15 pm to
I dunno who it was exactly, but…
she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.
Posted by SportsGuyNOLA
New Orleans, LA
Member since May 2014
17175 posts
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:25 pm to
Coach Eaux made it great
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
9391 posts
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:32 pm to
We used to do it in 1980 but it stood for loser back then .
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