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Curious, when did USL start copying the "Geaux" term for their sports teams?
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:15 pm
Saw a USL team bus yesterday and it had "Geaux Cajuns" on the side.
Did not realize they started using that.
Did not realize they started using that.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 12:16 pm
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Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:20 pm to Geauxgurt
Cajun isn’t owned by LSU but is rather Louisiana. ULL is free to use it and I think it actually goes better with their team mascot than ours. I actually don’t like us using it as it makes us all seem less intelligent and more drunk. Not saying we aren’t that, but we don’t need to advertise it
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:21 pm to Geauxgurt
Because they are The University of Louisiana?
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:22 pm to Geauxgurt
Nicholls uses it too.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:23 pm to Oilfieldbiology
ULALA
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:23 pm to Geauxgurt
Just trash trying to be something they're not.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:23 pm to AUCE05
Which one? There are 2
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:27 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Of course nobody owns it, it's still an odd thing to use due to it's popularity and association with LSU
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:34 pm to Geauxgurt
LSU is a bunch of yankees. ULL and Nicholls are actual cajuns, and are more entitled to use it than the posers in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:40 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:
when did USL start copying the "Geaux" term for their sports teams?
quote:
Geauxgurt
I will refuse to answer your question and instead ask the same question to you about GoGurt
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:02 pm to Oilfieldbiology
quote:
Cajun isn’t owned by LSU but is rather Louisiana
Geaux isn't Cajun, or even a real word.
LSU should've trademarked that long ago.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:12 pm to Geauxgurt
Baton Rouge-ians appropriated it from Cajun Country when Cajun culture became cool and was not seen as backwater trash anymore.
louisiana.edu article claims USL started using it in the 1980s
Not sure about LSU.
Edit: This guy says it originated in 1977 in Vermilion Parish.
louisiana.edu article claims USL started using it in the 1980s
Not sure about LSU.
Edit: This guy says it originated in 1977 in Vermilion Parish.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:14 pm to Baers Foot
quote:1979, obviously.
louisiana.edu article claims USL started using it in the 1980s
Not sure about LSU.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:17 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:
Curious, when did USL start copying the "Geaux" term for their sports teams?
Copying from whom?
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:25 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:
Saw a USL team bus yesterday and it had "Geaux Cajuns" on the side.
Did not realize they started using that.
We've used it ever since i could remember. We didn't just start using it
And it's a Cajun term. We are a school located in the heart of Cajun Country and our nickname is the Ragin Cajuns. So it's pretty fricking obvious why we'd use Geaux.
Why is LSU, who isn't located in a place with the same Cajun history or a Cajun-based nickname, using it? FTR, I don't care that LSU uses it, no one owns the term. But to act like LSU owns it and we "stole" it is pretty damn ludicrous
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:30 pm to Hazelnut
quote:
And it's a Cajun term.
No it's not. 
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:30 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:Yeah, because Baton Rouge is more Cajun than Lafayette, give me a fricking break
Of course nobody owns it, it's still an odd thing to use due to it's popularity and association with LSU
ETA: for the record I think it's fricking stupid regardless of who uses it, but it's absurd to act as if LSU "owns" this term, as it's clearly Cajun influenced, and Baton Rouge isn't very Cajun.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:35 pm to Epic Cajun
quote:Yeah, because the only LSU fans are in Baton Rouge. Give me a frickin break
Yeah, because Baton Rouge is more Cajun than Lafayette,
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:39 pm to Cincinnati Bowtie
quote:The school is located in Baton Rouge (obviously), to act like that school is entitled to a Cajun phrase more so than a school in the middle of Cajun Country is fricking stupid, regardless of where fans are located.
Yeah, because the only LSU fans are in Baton Rouge. Give me a frickin break
This is coming from an LSU fan who lives in Lafayette, and isn't really a UL fan.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:50 pm to Geauxgurt
I can remember USL using it when they were actually called USL. According to the pride of Meaux, Danny Broussard, the word geaux originated in Meaux LA. An argument on who stole it from who is stupid, but I would assume UL used it first being so close to Meaux LA
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