re: Mike the Tiger as Blind Referee

The staged spear incident was against Florida State. I also remember when we played FSU late in '82 that they staged a guy dressed up as a Seminole before the real Seminole came out to gallop his horse out to the 50yd line. Of course all the student section was begging him to come on down closer. The guy gallops towards the student section and they pelted him with frozen oranges (if we won we went to the Orange Bowl that year), similar to the opening scene in Dance With Wolves.

Another funny Mike moment was in '82 or '83 before the Halloween game with Old Piss. Before the band comes down to the field but after team warmups, a black hearse solemnly rolls on the field on near the Tiger sidelines then stops on about the 20 yd line in front of the students. The male LSU cheerleaders run over, open the back, pull out the casket and leave it. A few moments later Mike jumps out with a Count Dracula costume, tophat and cape. Classic!! Mark Jeffers was the man back then.