re: Tulane Fans

From the way I have heard it explained in the past, in the old days (1940s-60s), if you lived in Louisiana and your family had money, you went to Tulane. Many people in that time period looked at LSU as a poor man's university. I heard this from my uncle who attended Tulane.

It reminds me of a banner I saw hanging in the Superdome when LSU went there to face Tulane in 1985. The banner read: "You will not find any AGRI in our CULTURE." I think that leads more credence to that belief ... subsequent generations have probably been taught to believe that way ... much the same way that LSU fans have magically become "corn dogs" over the past few years just because some Alabama and Auburn fans believed it should be that way.

Living in Alabama now, I do not hear that story from the Alabama graduates that I know, but the Auburn graduates (who graduated in the 1960s) always bring that fact out ... that when they were in school, LSU always had overcrowded classrooms because it was a "poor man's university" and anyone could get in - which is why they attended Auburn.

Not trying to start anything here ... just reporting what I have heard most of my life.