re: Jake Delhomme not an LSU fan

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I seriously doubt that the ULL fans are in mass hating on LSU. Exactly where are all of you running into these ULL fans with a big chip on their shoulder???

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Oh, I'll be happy to give you just a few examples.

First, I have otherwise friends and acquaintances who've hated on LSU to my face for years and delighted telling me so when LSU was in the "dark days." They don't mouth off so much anymore, but the hatred is still there, waiting for us to stumble. I can see it in their faces when they try to feign a half-arse compliment about how good LSU is now.

I also know of friends and family who went to ULL football games where like others they got dirty looks and sometimes jeered for wearing LSU gear. And when the announcer broadcast an LSU loss, hundreds if not thousands of fans (the few they could get in there) cheered. I was there many years ago and heard this for myself. They also booed at another game when an LSU win was announced.

I know of a ULL homer Louisiana sportwriter who openly and bitterly stated in an article that he was not pulling for LSU in the 2003 title game for all the lame excuses given by other posters in this thread.

There was a recent article in the ULL student paper by a writer who stated one could be both a fan of LSU and ULL. He got overwhelmed with perhaps hundreds of vicious replies stating that was impossible, and if you like ULL, you cannot like LSU.

There was a thread here, I believe it was during last baseball season, where a link was given to a ULL message board and the hate for LSU was everywhere.

I guarantee you if I think about it more I could find you many more examples I personally know of. The hatred is real, decades old, cuts across generational lines, and encompasses the vast majority of ULL sports fans.

I will not pull for any team, particularly a Louisiana team, whose fans hate my beloved Tigers so much. Never. Ever.