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re: What is it about the cigar game that upset LSU fans so much?

Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:12 pm to
Posted by LSUJuice
Back in Houston
Member since Apr 2004
17690 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:12 pm to

I try. I like to be as fair and unbiased as I can. Now if you'll excuse me, I've been drinking coffee and water all day and have piss balloons to prepare.
Posted by piggidyphish
Birmingham
Member since Jul 2009
18880 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:13 pm to
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Now if you'll excuse me, I've been drinking coffee and water all day and have piss balloons to prepare.


Energy shot of pissballon. I support.
Posted by AUsteriskPride
Albuquerque, NM
Member since Feb 2011
18385 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:13 pm to
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Sooooooooo... Let's say a bama player whips his stuff out and pisses on your logo at midfield. Not gonna get upset?



WTF? Is this really how your brain operates? Not even remotely the same. God you're dumb as frick.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
262895 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:14 pm to
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Why does that make LSU fans so mad that they still talk about it almost 15 years later? Is it some sort of sign of disrespect? If so, why is it considered disrespectful?


Just something out of the ordinary. Respect or disrespect don't matter, losing the game is what mattered.

Posted by Jack Burton
Little China
Member since Jun 2008
2871 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:15 pm to
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I've always wondered...how did lsu fans hear about it?


I remember hearing about it first on the old ESPN message boards. I remember it was a rumor that spread and started a bunch of e-fights between LSU fans that said they did smoke the cigars and AU fans that said they didn't and would never do such a thing. Then the pic showed up and took it to a new level.
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
54190 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:15 pm to
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Then came the questionable officiating games
Not our fault.

quote:

chop blocks
No excuse for that one. We can all hate Chaz Ramsey.

Posted by LSUtah
Salt Lake City
Member since Feb 2011
872 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:16 pm to
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Thus do urban legends grow!


I did say "IF" I remember correctly. Sounded good...

Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30304 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:17 pm to
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and Tubberville was an abrasive personality
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what the hell did this guy do at ole miss that made lsu fans dislike him so much.
Tubs was at tha "U" during their heyday as a graduate asst & later the defensive coord in the 80's & early 90's. He came out of Miami with the U swaggar, and he carried it on well into his tenure at AU.
This post was edited on 9/18/13 at 3:18 pm
Posted by Festus
With Skillet
Member since Nov 2009
85063 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:20 pm to
Yeah, I'm not saying it's right or wrong or reasonable as to who is blamed. Just trying to give one person's recollection of how the thinking started that upset the average LSU fan in general towards AU. Might have been misguided, but I just recall the cigar smoking pics on midfield coming across as an "in your face", and then over the years, things happening that all just got jumbled into one focus of "Auburn".
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
36801 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:20 pm to
It was pretty awesome after we beat y'all in 2001 and everyone in tiger stadium lite a cigar. I wish had a picture of it but I remember walking out of the stadium and it looked like it was on fire.
Posted by BrerTiger
Valley of the Long Grey Cloud
Member since Sep 2011
21506 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:20 pm to
Found a post from 1993 on the old rec.sport.football.college newsgroup that I found interdasting:

quote:

As for the cigar smoking by the Auburn players, that is a Iron Bowl
tradition that has been around for many years. Alabama players were smoking
cigars after the game for the last three years, so any fan that complains about
Auburn doing it is ignorant.


LINK

I know some people will have trouble believing there anything resembling the Internet in 1993 but I seent it myself. Twas very handy for getting lyrics for Nirvana songs and other mind boggling useless trivia.
Posted by Nuts4LSU
Washington, DC
Member since Oct 2003
25468 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:23 pm to
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what the hell did this guy do at ole miss that made lsu fans dislike him so much.


Beat us in Tiger Stadium in 1997 the week after we had just beaten #1 Florida, jumped into the top ten and become the favorite to win the SEC West. It was supposed to be our watershed moment, the game that stamped us as a legitimate contender both in the SEC and nationally. But it all came crashing down the next week when Tuberville used a little-known QB named Stewart Patridge to shred the LSU defense in a 36-21 upset. The '97 team was never the same after that game, and of the course the total collapse of the DiNardo regime occurred over the next two years, helped by another loss to Ole Miss in Oxford in '98, in OT after we made a 3-TD comeback in the 4th quarter.

In all honesty, I think it was those two games, but mainly the '97 one, that made LSU fans hate Tuberville. The rest was all justification, not cause. LSU fans (some, not all) already hated him before he even went to Auburn, and going there, then beating us in his first game while there, only made it worse.
This post was edited on 9/18/13 at 3:25 pm
Posted by Broyota2
Member since Nov 2010
13089 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:24 pm to
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It was pretty awesome after we beat y'all in 2001 and everyone in tiger stadium lite a cigar. I wish had a picture of it but I remember walking out of the stadium and it looked like it was on fire.


There used to be a video of the espn footage when the 2001 game ended and almost everyone had a cigar in their mouths, most women even did
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
54190 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:26 pm to
Well, I hope you bastards find a reason to hate Malzahn for the next 15 years starting Saturday night.
Posted by NYCAuburn
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Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:29 pm to
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ell, I hope you bastards find a reason to hate Malzahn for the next 15 years starting Saturday night.



The team has the travel wires ready and packed

Posted by Choctaw
Pumpin' Sunshine
Member since Jul 2007
77774 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:31 pm to
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There used to be a video of the espn footage when the 2001 game ended and almost everyone had a cigar in their mouths, most women even did


i was on the field when they rushed. i wish i could remember who it was but somone handed one of the WRs a cigar and lifted him on their shoulders.
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
36801 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:45 pm to
Was that the last time we rushed the field?
Posted by Tacoma Tiger
Tacoma, WA
Member since Dec 2011
920 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:47 pm to
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i wish i could remember who it was but somone handed one of the WRs a cigar and lifted him on their shoulders.


Improper benefits. Alert the NCAA.
Posted by atlau
Member since Oct 2012
5264 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:48 pm to
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30304 posts
Posted on 9/18/13 at 3:56 pm to
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BrerTiger
I LOVE reading old posts like that from way back in time. There was a post about Terry Bowden and Stallings taking over after Curry that was priceless. It's always interesting and entertaining to see what folks were thinking back then.
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