re: Too many damn Tigers in the SEC now..LSU, Auburn, Missouri

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You may want to check out the Capital One challenge...

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That same challenge lists "Mike the Tiger" (the one that is a person in costume) as the mascot for LSU, rather than the Mike VI (the one that is a real live Tiger) which is the official mascot of LSU.

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The Auburn vet school has a golden eagle named Tiger that used to be on the sideline at games and flew beforehand, but she was never the school mascot.

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Now we're getting into semantics. Officially "Tiger" the eagle is not the named mascot of Auburn University, but as far as a live animal mascot, she's the closest y'all have. Fair enough though--your mascot is indeed not a bird named "Tiger", it is a human being in a tiger costume. This makes the "feaux Tiger" comment even dumber.

And what's this about "used to be on the sideline at games and flew beforehand"? When did this stop? I thought I saw a video from this season of the bird flying into the press box glass--was that from a previous season or are you just referring to something that stopped a few weeks ago in a way that sounds like its a tradition from a bygone era?