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Gov. Jeff Landry Defends Live Tiger Move, Takes Shot At LSU For Blowout Loss

by Staff Reporter

November 12, 202441 Comments

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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry spoke in front of a crowd at the “Politics with a Punch” event in Metairie on Monday night and defended his decision to bring a live Tiger into Tiger Stadium last Saturday and also took a shot at LSU for their blowout loss to Alabama. Per The Advocate:

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“Our tiger, our live tiger, unfortunately, disappointingly, was the only tiger who showed up Saturday. I’m sorry,” Landry told a boisterous crowd Monday night in Metairie at an event known as “Politics with a Punch."...

“I’m going to tell you something. This is about tradition. And the thing about tradition is about respecting those who came before you,” Landry said in answering questions from host Jeff Crouere in his most detailed comments yet about his controversial decision to revive a tradition of having a tiger at Tiger Stadium...

“I had more people come up to me, and they remembered Mike the Tiger more than some of the great plays in Tiger Stadium,” Landry told the crowd Monday night. “And they grew up as children seeing this. It’s about tradition. At the end of the day, these woke people have tried to take tradition out of this country. It’s tradition that built this country.”

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Originally published on TigerDroppings.com

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Davy•17 months

Tradition isn't putting some rando tiger in Mike's cage.

Spelt it rong•17 months

This dummy. Not only did he bring in TemuTheTiger, but he made a spectacle of it. Cites tradition, but fails to mention that never once did LSU bring in a body double for Mike. I'm all for fighting the woke mind virus, but it has to be in areas that matter. Dude is embarrassing my city

TigerVision•17 months

Embarrassing the state but that’s par for the course!

ExpoTiger•17 months

Wow he’s a fricking blowhard idiot. Lecturing us about tradition? wtf?

HurricaneCamille•17 months

Sorry, governor, you're just trash.

Cracker•17 months

This guy wow. You people! Hell there are more intelligent candidates on this board than what either party has produced.

TommyDaTiger•17 months

Peej?????

Camp Randall•17 months

I hate this man

TigerLunatik•17 months

As others have said, this wasn't tradition at all. Mike is the tradition parked right by the visitor's locker room.

atltiger6487•17 months

nope. When I was a kid in the 70s, Mike was driven around the field in his cage. He was also parked by the visitor's locker room, but he was definitely driven around the edges of the field.

cajunmud•17 months

Needs a bigger trailer tho. I'm getting claustrophobia from here.

LSUBB6366•17 months

He is 100% correct. Omar was the ONLY tiger who showed up sat nite

mmtiger•17 months

think the botox is creeping into his mind.

Jenar Boy•17 months

frick you govna!

TigerCoon•17 months

How'd we end up with this hick? There had to be better Republicans.

BilJ•17 months

He’s such a dumb shite, his line about wokeness at the end is telling of his true intentions. He wants to garner national headlines for battling wokeness that get him noticed. This was not about respecting tradition, by the time you trotted out Feauxmar, most met it with a sigh at best….but keep taking your victory lap Jeff

TooFyeToFly•17 months

Yup. He's trying to get on Fox News.

cajunmud•17 months

How long was he in the stadium? When they bring Mike back in, I'm thinking do a lap around the field before the game and prolly haul him back out, huh? Unless he's just having a helluva time.

Styxion•17 months

Exactly, if he wants tradition, then do it right. Tradition is to park him near the visiting teams tunnel. Putting him across the field doesn't really do anything when it comes to the intimidation factor.

Davy•17 months

He went to ULL

jamboots08•17 months

ULL should be embarrassed.

North Dallas Tiger•16 months

Haha

TommyDaTiger•17 months

Baylor’s bringing out a live bear this Saturday. Also Providence is working on pulling a REAL Friar Monk out of a Monastery to work as an analyst and mascot on game days. Stanford is now gonna cut down a real tree day before each game to drag out and parade it around. And I’ve heard from people in the know that talks are in the works at Syracuse between them and the Florida orange farmers to get something going. Landry is ahead of the game baws!!!!

BlackPot•17 months

I'm sorry. I voted for him too. Dammit.

cajunmud•17 months

The HORROR this bottle-fed tiger endured. The absolute horror...

HurricaneCamille•17 months

And slaves in the 1800s were well fed, too! They should be appreciative!

chadr07•17 months

Here we go again with people putting wild animals on the same pedestal as human beings. The freaking animal was not tortured in any way. Y’all need to get over this petty nonsense. It’s not that big of a deal. Damn

atltiger6487•17 months

good lord, man. Zero relevance.

JKChesterton•17 months

I hope Garret Graves runs for Governor next time. This guy is on the scale of Special, sort of in the Forrest Gump or Rain man range.

CanebreakCajun•17 months

This clown went to LOULA.

Locoguan0•17 months

He was 26 went he went to UL. We don't claim being involved in the creation of this idiocy.

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