re: Who here has been in TS when Mike the real Tiger was pulled around the stadium in a cage.

My daughter was a cheerleader from 2007-2010. The girl cheerleaders would flip off the back of the cage to dismount.

If Colorado can run out with a live Bison and Texas can bring a cow, LSU should be allowed to bring Mike. No cage. Just let him roam

I took this...I believe it was the last year they did it! Pretty cool tradition but I understand why they stopped.

Better image show the other team coming out of the locker room and had to run right by him!!!

Yes and it was 2nd to nothing in all of college football. I also wish that it could return.

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Upon returning to in front of the student section, some cheerleaders and the human mascot would yell and pound on the cage to get a response from Mike.

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Not how they did it. There was a segment on inside LSU football about this while I was a student.

Costumed Mike would hide behind the cheerleaders, then jump out and “say hi” to Mike. The sight of costumed Mike triggered the hell out of the animal. There was definitely no banging on the cage.

I lived in the stadium during my second year at LSU. I don't know how I survived living there. There wasn't any air conditioned rooms in the stadium and to get cool you had to bring a fan to put in front of a open window. I stayed in that sweatbox for a year. The next year I lived in Kirby Smith. That dorm was the best dorm to live in since it had a/c. The second best was Gram Hall. Today I can't live without an a/c running. In high school we got a/c's the month before we graduated. I guess that your body adapts to the conditions you are in.

I’ve ridden a few times in the stadium as he was pulled around.

Me. I miss it. I understand why they don’t do anymore but I still miss it.

It was in 1983, I also lived in the dormitories in Tiger Stadium. That was a wild and crazy time like no other living environment on campus. We all heard Mike’s roars at night.

Geaux Tigers!