re: Renderings of expansion from LSU

Peronally, I like the design of the proposed expansion. I think it's worth noting that we aren't discussing an update to a Mies van der Rohe modernist classic or the renovation of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Dinginess has always been part of Tiger Stadium's gritty appeal. It's a huge, drab bowl of steel and concrete that rises menacing and melancholy along the banks of the Mississippi. It's scarred and battered and, from the air in a rickety little regional jet juddering into the Baton Rouge airport, it resembles a cancerous stone angel of death ready to beat its winged upper decks and bring petrified destruction to the deep south. From some approaches it's a haunted house, a warren of abandoned dorm rooms hung with wreaths of asbestos and echoing with the stifled moans of 1960's fluffy-bushed coeds. Seen from other angles, it's a factory designed for large scale industrial slaughter. The wary animal enters down along chute from the south, is unceremoniously gutted, entrails and blood splatter the floor, the meaty bits are sprayed off the pitted concourses with a hose, laughing workers piss into a trough between killings, and the slaughter resumes next Saturday. Unintentionally, the motley Tiger Stadium aesthetic perfectly represents the assortment of loons who congregate there in the fall. I love every part of the place, ugly or no. Best stadium experience on earth when she's rockin'.