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Shouldn't Our Live Tiger Mascots Be Buried or Entombed on Campus?
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:26 pm
Mike is such an LSU traditon that no doubt will continue as long as there is an LSU. Mike's habitat has arches out to Mike XX, which LSU may not see for another century.
What happens when a mascot dies? Are the remains incinerated and then unceremoniously dumped?
I think Mike VI and all future Mikes should be entombed on campus. I don't know where there's room in the Tiger Stadium-PMAC-habitat area even to bury urns with tiger ashes, much less the uncremated remains of 500-700 pound tigers.
I envision a nice mausoleum type spot where the Mikes' burial urns could be entombed, somewhere around the front of Tiger Stadium, maybe around the plaques for past Tiger football teams, or perhaps in the wall of Tiger Stadium itself. It would be dignified and a fitting resting place for all future Mikes, who are such a part of LSU.
There is precedent, since Mike I is still on campus in Foster Hall. I wouldn't be for stuffing every future Mike and lining them up like a taxidermy shop though.
I do think a nice entombment wall for the urns with ashes of all future Mikes would be dignified and add to LSU tradition--certainly better than unceremoniously dumping the ashes of our live mascots that have meant so much to every LSU student since 1936.
What happens when a mascot dies? Are the remains incinerated and then unceremoniously dumped?
I think Mike VI and all future Mikes should be entombed on campus. I don't know where there's room in the Tiger Stadium-PMAC-habitat area even to bury urns with tiger ashes, much less the uncremated remains of 500-700 pound tigers.
I envision a nice mausoleum type spot where the Mikes' burial urns could be entombed, somewhere around the front of Tiger Stadium, maybe around the plaques for past Tiger football teams, or perhaps in the wall of Tiger Stadium itself. It would be dignified and a fitting resting place for all future Mikes, who are such a part of LSU.
There is precedent, since Mike I is still on campus in Foster Hall. I wouldn't be for stuffing every future Mike and lining them up like a taxidermy shop though.
I do think a nice entombment wall for the urns with ashes of all future Mikes would be dignified and add to LSU tradition--certainly better than unceremoniously dumping the ashes of our live mascots that have meant so much to every LSU student since 1936.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:29 pm to timlan2057
Put them in the tunnel the opposing team has to walk through. Would be creepy af.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:32 pm to timlan2057
Only UGA can pull that off
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:35 pm to timlan2057
LSU should stuff them and line them up somewhere on campus.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:39 pm to timlan2057
I think they should have the heads stuffed and hung up in the tunnel the opposing team comes out of
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:43 pm to timlan2057
We shouldn't entomb our live mascots. It's better to wait until they are dead.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:49 pm to timlan2057
Before the renovation, I think they were in the old habitat.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:49 pm to lakelanier
Touché.
But if I hadn't put "live tiger," people would have started joking about burying the guy in the tiger suit.
But if I hadn't put "live tiger," people would have started joking about burying the guy in the tiger suit.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:50 pm to timlan2057
Mike I is stuffed and was displayed for many years in the natural history museum on campus.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:54 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Mike I is stuffed and was displayed for many years in the natural history museum on campus.
He is still on display, though after almost 60 years, he is starting to look a little worse for wear.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:57 pm to timlan2057
i thought i read they put him in the basement at one point. I guess they brought him back or i am misremembering.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 8:58 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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i thought i read they put him in the basement at one point. I guess they brought him back or i am misremembering.
He was out on display at the museum in Foster as of a couple weeks ago.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 9:04 pm to Draconian Sanctions
The stuffed tigers like Mike I would be awesome but too many people would freak.
I'd be all for some kind of monument for the cremated remains with plaques, etc.
Something that the public could visit.
I'd be all for some kind of monument for the cremated remains with plaques, etc.
Something that the public could visit.
Posted on 3/15/15 at 10:20 pm to lakelanier
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We shouldn't entomb our live mascots. It's better to wait until they are dead.
Smart arse but funny as hell!
Posted on 3/16/15 at 12:49 am to timlan2057
I don't remember which one, but there is one mounted in the lobby at Ralph and Cakoo's I believe.
Posted on 3/16/15 at 7:22 am to timlan2057
You may have a point. DEAD is likely the only way to get our tiger into the stadium
Posted on 3/16/15 at 7:38 am to timlan2057
ehh the aggies do this with their dogs and even have a scoreboard set up facing the cemetery for the dead dogs to know the score of the game. It's a little weird, but I guess everything they do is a little weird.
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