re: Ranking the Nicknames/Mascots of the SEC

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Read the thread. I know the connection. There is no REAL connection between REAL tigers, which are seemingly the name and mascot of LSU's team. If they wanted to go with a civil war troop then they should have Mike the confederate soldier...

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Yes, because a confederate soldier would go over so well in today's society..

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The "Tiger Rifles" were a volunteer group of men that formed in the New Orleans area during the Civil War. They later became a part of a battalion that was commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat.

Before the war was over the entire battalion became known as the "Tigers." As time went on, the name "Tigers" was associated with all Louisiana troops commanded by Robert E. Lee. The tiger symbol became the logo of the Washington Artillery in New Orleans, LA. The official logo consisted of a mean and snarling tiger's head. David French Boyd, a Major in the Confederate Army, became the first president of Louisiana State University after the war ended.

He was very familiar with the "Tiger Rifles" and the "Tigers" from the Washington Artillery. It was during the fourth year of intercollegiate games that the LSU football team officially adopted the name "Tigers" for their football team.

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I don't care who you are and who you root for--that is pretty damned cool

And as far as an actual tiger relating to our nickname--it's just a mascot, and we have two of them. There is a reason we are called the "fighting tigers"