re: How Did Your Live Tiger Get The Name "Mike" ?

Peter Charles, or Paul Christopher or whatever so that when you abreviate it will be......

P. C. Bear

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what about Rebear?

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It's not the Rebel Black Jap Bear.

should have gone with the adm. akbar!

would have been an opportunity to take a bad situation and at least found a creative way out.

the bear is stupid.

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re: How Did Your Live Tiger Get The Name "Mike" ?

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Micheal the 'archangel'.....the baddest mofo ever.

From Louisiana Life Magazine

LSU FIGHTING TIGERS
AKA BAYOU BENGALS
Mike
ORIGIN: When LSU met Tulane in
its very first football game in 1893, this
Baton Rouge-based military seminary
was without a nickname, though,
according to researcher Marty Mule,
the New Orleans newspapers referred
to the team as "the Baton Rouge
boys." Three years later, the team
adopted a greyhound named Drum to
share mascot duties with a pelican. A
more demonstrative nickname was
needed as the team became more
successful. A new mascot was chosen,
drawn from the Civil War fame of two
Louisiana Confederate brigades
consisting of New Orleans Zouaves
and Donaldsonville Cannoneers
dubbed the "fighting band of
Louisiana tigers" by other Southern
troops because of the fighting spirit
displayed at the Battle of Shenandoah.
LSU's nickname became more closely
matched with the state's military
heritage in 1955 when it evolved into
the "Fighting Tigers."
AT THE GAME; The university
acquired its first live mascot in 1924
when an alumnus donated a cub
named Little-Eat-'Em-Up. The
original Mike came to the school in
1956. His ride through the stadium
before home games in a mobile cage
became a football tradition — that is,
until the animal protection agency,
PETA, strongly urged the university
to "retire" Mike to a permanent oncampus
habitat and replace him with
a student dressed in a tiger costume.
Since 2005, a student dressed as the
striped carnivore has served as Mike
VTs sideline surrogate — although
the actual Mike still makes the
occasional cameo.
TULANE GREEN
WAVE/PELICAN
NAME; Riptide
ORIGIN: This unique team name,
the Green Wave, came almost as an
accident. Although Tulane began
playing intercollegiate football in
1893, from that time to 1919, the
school's athletic teams were known
as "the Olive and Blue." In 1919, the
Tulane Weekly campus newspaper
began referring to the football team
as "the Greenbacks." But for more
than 50 years, the alternative name
"Green Wave" was symbolized by a
logo of a pelican riding a surfboard.
Then in 1955, local cartoonist John
Chase, who drew covers for the
Tulane football programs, created a
little man wearing a top hat and
named him Greenie. When Rix Yard
became the athletics director in 1963,
he felt Tulane needed a tougher
symbol for its teams. Working with
the manager of the Tulane bookstore,
he arranged for a new mascot to be
created. Several sketches were
submitted, and the angry-looking
wave was adopted in 1964. The block
"T" with waves became the Tulane
athletics logo in 1986. Today, the
logos feature a"T" with a modern
wave as a primary mark. A new
pelican mascot was introduced and
given the name Riptide by a vote of
Tulane students.
AT THE Over the past 25
years, Tulane mascots have been
depicted by a life-size sea god in the
image of Proteus, complete with a
triton, and in the image of the tough
wave, unofficially known as Gumby,
until the pelican riding a surfboard
was re-introduced in 1998.
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
RAGIN' CAJUNS
NAME: Ragin' Cajun
ORIGIN; Legendary football coach
Russ Faulkinberry, not particularly

That's really cool. How did you get the Purple and Gold colors.

Teddy