The Live Caged Tiger Returns To The Sidelines Of LSU Football’s Tiger Stadium In Game Against Alabama
The LSU football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide just got a lot more intense, and it’s not because of the players on the field. It’s because a live caged tiger will make its grand return to the sidelines of LSU’s Tiger Stadium. And let me tell you, fans are fuming. You would think that […] The post The Live Caged Tiger Returns To The Sidelines Of LSU Football’s Tiger Stadium In Game Against Alabama appeared first on BlackSportsOnline.
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The LSU football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide just got a lot more intense, and it’s not because of the players on the field. It’s because a live caged tiger will make its grand return to the sidelines of LSU’s Tiger Stadium. And let me tell you, fans are fuming.
You would think that having a real, live tiger prowling around would add some excitement to the game, but instead, it’s just causing chaos. People are panicking, wondering how on earth this wild animal will be returning to the sidelines. Well, LSU is bringing back that tradition.
The tiger that will try to intimidate the visiting Alabama Crimson Tide, or give a blast from the past, is not even connected to the team’s past live mascots, all named Mike.
This is an out-of-state tiger being driven in to Baton Rouge that will be on the sidelines. Mike VII has never attended a football game since becoming the team’s live mascot in 2017.
Mike VI was the last to get to watch his Tiger brethren in person because he ‘had adverse reactions to visual and auditory stimuli during pre-game festivities and became resistant to getting into a trailer cage to attend the game,’ per the Louisiana Illuminator.
‘Animal abuse and and gimmicky,’ one LSU fan said.
‘This is a joke. It is an absolute waste of taxpayer money. All so Landry can have his little stunt. A man that didn’t even go to LSU. This is disgusting and I feel for that young tiger being put into such an environment. It makes LSU look like clown show.’
‘I think it’s awesome.’
‘We are going to put the tiger in the end zone. So the opponent knows not to go there.’
The tiger that is not Mike is from Florida and has the name Omar Bradley, per the New Orleans Advocate.
LSU head coach Brian Kelly was asked about the decision on Thursday.
‘I’m a huge Tiger fan,’ Kelly said, dodging the question. ‘Go Tigers.’
Animal-rights group PETA has also slammed the decision to have a live mascot return to the sidelines at LSU.
‘It’s shameful and out of touch with today’s respect for wild species that LSU has bowed to Gov. Landry’s campaign to display a live tiger at its football games to amuse the fans,’ Klayton Rutherford, PETA Foundation associate director of captive wildlife research, told the Illuminator.
‘Whether the tiger is confined to campus or shipped in from elsewhere, no reputable facility would subject a tiger to such chaos and stress, and PETA and nearly 50,000 of its supporters have already called on Landry to let up and leave big cats alone – and are now urging LSU to grow a spine and just say no.’
Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: this game will go down in history as the wildest and most controversial match-up ever played at Tiger Stadium. The question now is whether the fans and players will come out of it unscathed or forever scarred by the roar of the caged beast.
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