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re: Who were the TIGERS first? LSU or Auburn?
Posted on 5/6/09 at 4:40 pm to jbirds1
Posted on 5/6/09 at 4:40 pm to jbirds1
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Not uh, LSU first used the tiger mascot in 1795, well before Auburn came along. This is common knowledge.
Not so fast, Poindexter.
In actuality, the roots of the LSU tiger mascot go back to 1719, when the French governor of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, took a sporting party northwest from New Orleans to play competitive games with the local Indians.
Most of his party were young men who attended the provincial school for Louisiana at that time, and they played a modified version of rugby against the Houma Indians near the present day LSU campus. The Frenchmen referred to themselves as Le Tigres, which derived from symbolism involved with the Bourbon dynasty in Paris, reflecting a tradition going back to the ancient pharaohs of Egypt, and in all probability, much further back than that.
Thus, the tiger mascot lineage of LSU goes back at least 5000 years, in my humble opinion.
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Posted on 5/6/09 at 6:46 pm to Doc Fenton
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Thus, the tiger mascot lineage of LSU goes back at least 5000 years, in my humble opinion.
This is the correct answer...but he forgot that they were related to Adam and Eve, who everyone knows where bitten by a tiger snake. So it truly goes back to the beginning of time...just sayin'.
Posted on 5/6/09 at 6:55 pm to Doc Fenton
Not so fast, Fenton,
Archeological digs from both the existing Indian mounds on campus and throughout the gulf region show these tribes created, revered and buried their dead with clay figures that are described as "striped catamounts". These funerary objects were highly prized and, when freshly unearthed are said to bear a stale sour mash aroma.
Apparently, there was some ceremonial use for these striped catamounts in the Indian lacrosse contests as well, where a large version was recovered atop a travois device used to move from palce to place.
Archeological digs from both the existing Indian mounds on campus and throughout the gulf region show these tribes created, revered and buried their dead with clay figures that are described as "striped catamounts". These funerary objects were highly prized and, when freshly unearthed are said to bear a stale sour mash aroma.
Apparently, there was some ceremonial use for these striped catamounts in the Indian lacrosse contests as well, where a large version was recovered atop a travois device used to move from palce to place.
Posted on 5/6/09 at 7:03 pm to Doc Fenton
quote:
Not so fast, Poindexter.
In actuality, the roots of the LSU tiger mascot go back to 1719, when the French governor of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, took a sporting party northwest from New Orleans to play competitive games with the local Indians.
Most of his party were young men who attended the provincial school for Louisiana at that time, and they played a modified version of rugby against the Houma Indians near the present day LSU campus. The Frenchmen referred to themselves as Le Tigres, which derived from symbolism involved with the Bourbon dynasty in Paris, reflecting a tradition going back to the ancient pharaohs of Egypt, and in all probability, much further back than that.
Thus, the tiger mascot lineage of LSU goes back at least 5000 years, in my humble opinion.
Man, I love the RANT
Posted on 5/6/09 at 7:35 pm to Doc Fenton
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Thus, the tiger mascot lineage of LSU goes back at least 5000 years, in my humble opinion.
Incorrect, Doc. We have recently found fossil remains of what looks like a game similar to football played between tribes that once resided in the area of the Auburn campus and tribes that used crude tools and weapons known to be located in the Baton Rouge area.
These fossils go back at least 30,000 years. Here is evidence of the ancient game between LSU and Auburn..
Posted on 5/6/09 at 7:52 pm to Zach
no wonder... by erroneously using the moniker 'tigers', they are hoping to dissuade everyone from discovering what you have just revealed... the auburn university 'war eagle' is actually a 'war moth' !!!... this undoubtedly explains why they are so aggressively defensive about being called 'war eagles'... GOOD WORK, Zach!!!... 
Posted on 5/6/09 at 8:25 pm to Akit1
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To further confuse the matter, the Eagles name is Tiger
Posted on 5/7/09 at 12:04 pm to 4evaLSU
Looks like the historical, archealogical and geological evidence is overwhelming: LSU, and its cultural ancestors adopted and employed the tiger (f/k/a "striped catamount") centuries before Auburn sought to imitate that example thru it's schizophrenic and simultaneous adoption of the war/ tiger/ eagle that serves to embarrass that institution to this very day.
Ya gotta feel for those poor bastards, meth labs and mullets notwithstanding.
Ya gotta feel for those poor bastards, meth labs and mullets notwithstanding.
Posted on 5/8/09 at 10:02 pm to jbirds1
I didn't graduate from LSU. Does that make me a second rate fan?
Posted on 5/8/09 at 10:09 pm to nitwit
very clever..
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