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re: Mike the Tiger (A Tiger Stadium Tradition)
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:37 pm to Broski
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:37 pm to Broski
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It's the most overrated tradition ever.
Wrong.
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First the Tiger goes in the cage and does a lap around the field well before kickoff with hardly anybody actually in the stadium.
Wrong.
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And then, they set them by the visitors tunnel, but the opposing team doesn't even notice him as it runs out.
Wrong.
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And it's not like there's any energy from it, because the cage is so small that Mike can do nothing but lay down motionless in it.
Wrong.
Good Lord. You made four assertions and all four were dead wrong.
As far as the tradition itself I’ve accepted the fact that the ship has sailed, but it was a great tradition.
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Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:40 pm to LSU Jax
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Good Lord. You made four assertions and all four were dead wrong.
How am I wrong?
Mike's cage parades around the field an hour and a half before kickoff. By no means is everyone leaving their tailgate for the game by then.
And the opposing team most definitely is not intimidated by a heavily caged Tiger that is half asleep.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:42 pm to BDJ
One thing about the internet, it allows people you to chat and sound tough like a video gangster, while behaving like an insecure person.
All I am doing is inquire about a past history when I attended LSU in the Fall of 1982.
I want to thank the Board for their commentaries.
Geaux Tigers!
All I am doing is inquire about a past history when I attended LSU in the Fall of 1982.
I want to thank the Board for their commentaries.
Geaux Tigers!
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:43 pm to thelawnwranglers
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The doctors at our vet school
So there weren't doctors at the Vet school before 2014 or whatever year it was when they stopped bringing him into the stadium?
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:45 pm to TigerNSac
These threads shouldn't be kept alive. Beating a dead horse.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 1:50 pm to TigerNSac
I have a better idea.
Let's build a football stadium inside the tiger cage!
Let's build a football stadium inside the tiger cage!
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:06 pm to Broski
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How am I wrong? Mike's cage parades around the field an hour and a half before kickoff. By no means is everyone leaving their tailgate for the game by then
Because Mike would circle the field about 30 minutes before the game, not an hour and 30 like you claimed. Mike sat outside the visitors locker room (where they enter the field) and every opposing player definitely saw him when they would come in and out of the locker room before the game. Sure, they didn’t stop and gaze at him when they ran onto the field right before the opening kickoff, but they definitely would admire the tiger at other times.
As for no one could see him anyway, that was false as well. Many families would bring kids down to field level to see Mike, or is you sat in the bottom 25 rows or so had a pretty good view.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:16 pm to Broski
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Mike's cage parades around the field an hour and a half before kickoff. By no means is everyone leaving their tailgate for the game by then.
bullshite!! It was MUCH closer to gametime. I grew up going to games in that stadium and can tell you for a fact that you’re dead wrong about that.
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And the opposing team most definitely is not intimidated by a heavily caged Tiger that is half asleep.
There have been opposing players confirm that Mike the Tiger freaked them out when coming out of the locker room before the game. The cage would be parked very close to the locker room door and Mike was most certainly not “half asleep”.
Dead wrong too about him only being able to lay down in it. He paced all over inside that cage.
Have you ever even been to home game in Tiger Stadium? It sure doesn’t sound like it. Know what you’re talking about when speaking with such certainty.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:20 pm to TigerNSac
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We are discussing a cameo appearance.
Other schools continue to do it, i.e. Colorado, Air Force, Auburn, Texas,.
Do you think all animals are the same? Lol.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:20 pm to TigerNSac
Mike is an endangered species who lives in a sanctuary....that was the deal so that we could have him. I would not expect to see him loaded into a cow trailer and pulled around the stadium before football games again.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:29 pm to Spankum
They should have built the sanctuary into the stadium with the visiting team having to walk through his habitat in a glass tunnel to get into the stadium.
And it is not PETA but common sense and humane thought that makes sense that keep Mike from being paraded. He is fine in his sanctuary and perhaps better off than in the wild. He appears to like the attention. But to be caged and moved is a major stressor for almost any animal.
And it is not PETA but common sense and humane thought that makes sense that keep Mike from being paraded. He is fine in his sanctuary and perhaps better off than in the wild. He appears to like the attention. But to be caged and moved is a major stressor for almost any animal.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:31 pm to Spankum
You people disgust me.
At the expense of serving up your self loathing religious football tradition you desire to bring down a beautiful animal for God sakes
You put him in the most unnatural environment and allow children to tap on the glass scaring it to death.
Now you desire the return of his caged spectacle in front of 100,000 other self righteous Neck-screaming Cajuns?
Disgusting!
Pa-leese kids!
At the expense of serving up your self loathing religious football tradition you desire to bring down a beautiful animal for God sakes
You put him in the most unnatural environment and allow children to tap on the glass scaring it to death.
Now you desire the return of his caged spectacle in front of 100,000 other self righteous Neck-screaming Cajuns?
Disgusting!
Pa-leese kids!
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:53 pm to Bayou
I miss Mike coming to games. PeTA sucks.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 2:59 pm to Anaximander
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They should have built the sanctuary into the stadium with the visiting team having to walk through his habitat in a glass tunnel to get into the stadium.
In the stadium? Joe Alleva would've charged the visiting team $1000 to run through the tunnel.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:17 pm to TigerNSac
Mike needs to come back on the field. One of college football’s greatest traditions.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:29 pm to TigerNSac
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Having Mike the Tiger in a cage at the opponents tunnel before entering the field would be awesome for a cameo appearance.
It amazes me that this question keeps coming up.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:42 pm to TigerNSac
People can’t even back the frick away from his habitat without mocking him.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:45 pm to Bayou
What is a "natural habitat" for a tiger born in captivity with nothing but human interaction. I don't want him stressed in that little trailer, but your opinion is is otherwise ignorant.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:52 pm to TigerNSac
Per Mike’s vet himself Mike will N E V E R get into that trailer again to be paraded around Tiger Stadium.
You knuckleheaded assclowns need to give that crap up because you’re wasting your breath.
You knuckleheaded assclowns need to give that crap up because you’re wasting your breath.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 3:57 pm to Ramsey Dardar 1982
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That decision was made to placate PETA
You're a fricking tard.
Dr. Baker wipes his arse with PETA letters. His policy begins and ends with what is best for the animal.
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