Who remembers when they dropped Mike(mascot) out of the ceiling.

It was always awesome. They half arse tried it last year, but they did it way too early and it took a full minute for him to drop because some genius thought the drop needed to be timed with the eye of the tiger song. Just drop the rope and let him repel down right before the starting line ups like he used to do for the kentucky games and the place will go nuts.

Yep. Sometimes he would come down head first, really fast, then pull up and flip feet down at the last possible moment.

Pretty sure it was a ringer fake Mike, since he never had a tail.

For all of you youngsters, it wasn't the REAL tiger... it was the guy in the tiger suit.

This is all I think about when hearing stories of mascots being lowered from ceilings. LINK

Those were the greatest years in Tiger basketball. It set the tone for some of the most exciting games in LSU History

like it was yesterday. i brought my late father to the game and he was from kentucky originally and a big wildcat fan. the pmac was rocking and it was great to finally give the old man shite about kentucky basketball. if my memory is correct, mike also got ejected from that game for impersonating the refs posing as a blind man. boy, LSU had some exciting teams in those days; daddy dale was a character.

I witnessed it!..

My dad used to do this. He saw this thread being shared on Facebook and sent the link to me because he thought I might post. See quotes below for his comments:

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It is very cool to read these comments.  It’s funny how the truth is somewhere in the middle of all of that.

 

Facts are: a State Trooper did it for a couple of years, I believe 81&82, I did it from 83-93.  In 94 and 95 or 96, the ROTC group did it until the kid burned his hand real bad.  That was the last time it was done as a rappel.  I believe, from the later comments in the article, they lowered someone in a slow descent.  One time, we lowered a manikin in a Kentucky basketball uniform about half way.  The crowd was booing so loud… until we cut the rope.  The manikin hit the floor and broke apart.  Then, Mark Jeffers, the real mascot at that time (and the best and most controversial, in my opinion (blind ref skit was his idea)), came across the court with a big dust mop and swept the pieces off of the court.  The crowd went wild!  The comment about upside down, really fast (almost a free fall) and flipping at the last minute is true.  I did that a few times.

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Before any detectives say anything about MSG's post earlier, yes, he's my cousin.