re: Louisiana St. vs LSU

I’m with you.

Hearing Verne say “Touchdown, Louisiana State” was OK with me.

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I am guessing you can not read:

It struck me that purple and gold looked Tigerish enough and I suggested that we choose “Louisiana Tigers,” all in conference with the boys. The Louisiana Tigers had represented the state in Civil War and had been known for their hard fighting.

He told you it came from the Civil War, just like the 1930's article in the Baton Rouge paper about Dr. Coates.

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The part you bolded is merely an aside that was a confirming coincidence. Read the whole damn quote:

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It was the custom at that time, for some occult reason, to call football teams by the names of vicious animals; the Yale Bulldogs and the Princeton Tigers, for example. This is still the vogue. It struck me that purple and gold looked Tigerish enough and I suggested that we choose "Louisiana Tigers," all in conference with the boys. The Louisiana Tigers had represented the state in Civil War and had been known for their hard fighting.

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The man who came up with the idea said that it "was the custom at that time . . . to call football teams by the names of vicious animals."

"It struck me that purple and gold looked Tigerish enough and I suggested that we choose "Louisiana Tigers," all in conference with the boys."

Criteria for mascot: vicious animal

The LSU uniforms looked: "Tigerish"; therefore, the coach and players chose "Tigers."

There was also the confirming coincidence that "The Louisiana Tigers had represented the state in Civil War and had been known for their hard fighting," but that was not part of the criteria. They merely had the same monicker.

This ain't rocket science. It's like you are intentionally refusing to accept the clear facts, that are right in front of your face, by the man who suggested the name back in 1893.

Come on, man.

First, you argue "Boyd," but he was gone.

Then you argue "bad reporting," but it's not research or interpretation.

Then you argue "source," but it's a quote from THE MAN himself.

Now you are arguing context.

Holy frick!

You have not offered one shred of evidence. Not one.

You argued Boyd.

You argued "bad reporting" about the same letter that you now quote.

You argued "source" about the same man you now quote.

When you have nothing left to offer or argue, you try to quote the source that I provided from go, and you attempt to argue that it's not what Coates says specifically in his letter about why he suggested Tigers, it's the coincidental context that Louisiana also had units called Tigers in the Civil War.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. You refuse to see.

I put the clear facts in front of you, but you are blinded by your agenda.

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Bengals is nowhere to be found.

You people.

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I heard "Bengal Tigers" many times growing up.

Who said "Bengals"?

You person.

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LINKLINK

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Headlines don’t work if they’re too long

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When I was at LSU there were only two schools in the country that "officially" went by their acronym...LSU and UCLA

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I wonder when UCLA’s neighbors started insisting on USC in preference to Southern Cal.

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And I went to LSU in the 80's

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So did I Slippy. And as a testament to my wonderous powers of procrastination, I ended up on the top floor of the west stadium dorms. Who knows, we may have run into each other in the mass of humanity that traversed the quad.

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I can promise you that we were referred to in the media as LSU. The endzones have always said LSU.

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Yep. I can verify

LSU 1957

Beginning in 1972 LSU started including a notice in its media guide that stated that it wanted to be called "LSU," even on first mention.

The Associated Press wire service style in those days was to refer to a school's full name the first time it was mentioned (in most cases-UCLA being one exception), and then it was okay to use the abbreviation after. LSU requested to be an exception to that rule, and AP largely complied.