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Posted on 5/17/26 at 7:54 pm to SlingingSnakeStabler
Posted on 5/17/26 at 7:54 pm to SlingingSnakeStabler
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Many black players already don't won't to play for LSU because of this sordid and shameful history.
Unlike Alabama which has an historically fantasmic reputation for its progressive open-mindedness.
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Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:02 pm to Russianblue
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Unlike Alabama which has an historically fantasmic reputation for its progressive open-mindedness.
Correct. That is why Alabama has gotten so many of Louisiana’s top recruits over the years.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:07 pm to captdalton
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I think LSU fans will demand it. After the way they have reacted to the Ole Miss comments, they will demand LSU drop the Tiger once they realize the fighting tigers sordid history. I hear the petition to rename LSU to the LSU Purple Lemons has hundreds of thousands of signatures.. It will honor their favorite son Don Lemon and they won’t even need to change colors.
That seems like a great idea, and like you say, most LSU fans will be fine with it considering how they and Kiffin feel about Ole Miss.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:15 pm to Russianblue
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Unlike Alabama which has an historically fantasmic reputation for its progressive open-mindedness.
I'm going to put this in a way that even an LSU fan can understand.
The Alabama Crimson Tide is not named the Alabama 41st Regiment Tuscaloosa Infantry Football Team.
You see, LSU is named directly in honor of a military unit called the Tiger Rifles (commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat) and the Washington Artillery of New Orleans and their nickname was the Fighting Tigers.
Get it? Understand? Even LSU fans can understand that, right?
This post was edited on 5/17/26 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:19 pm to MetryTyger
This will make NFLSU angry.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:23 pm to TigerLunatik
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No one should care about any of this.
Said a boomer wrapped up in his white privilege cocoon. The black children that want to play for LSU, whose own relatives were being refused freedom and the ability to live like a human being by people the LSU team is named after may disagree with your smug and cavalier plantation overseer attitude.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:25 pm to SlingingSnakeStabler
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The Alabama Crimson Tide is not named the Alabama 41st Regiment Tuscaloosa Infantry Football Team.
I do have to admit that sounds catchy. It just rolls off the tongue. But in today’s climate you just can’t name your team the LSU Confederate Shock Troops Football Team. I can’t blame Kiffin for fighting this injustice. He certainly won’t want to sully his legacy and sterling reputation by associating with such an outrage.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:34 pm to captdalton
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I do have to admit that sounds catchy. It just rolls off the tongue. But in today’s climate you just can’t name your team the LSU Confederate Shock Troops Football Team. I can’t blame Kiffin for fighting this injustice. He certainly won’t want to sully his legacy and sterling reputation by associating with such an outrage.
I've never thought of Kiffin as a man with much of a backbone and have always viewed him as somewhat of a slimy sexual pervert too, but, if he can change this injustice of LSU having a Confederate name, I would be impressed.
Who cares if he has a wet fish handshake, a nervous and sneaky disposition, and really short eyes if he can make African American players feel more welcomed at LSU and not be intimidated by racist Cajuns.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 10:00 pm to captdalton
You all are hilarious with this troll. I’d bet that if you asked any football player—regardless of their skin color—about the origin of the LSU Tigers name, not one of them could tell you.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 4:39 am to SlingingSnakeStabler
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Said a boomer wrapped up in his white privilege cocoon. The black children that want to play for LSU, whose own relatives were being refused freedom and the ability to live like a human being by people the LSU team is named after may disagree with your smug and cavalier plantation overseer attitude.
Don't sit there and act like any of this bullshite on this board is about anything that you typed. All of this is about trolling other fan bases and you all know. Get the frick outt here with your righteous bullshite.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 5:17 am to TigerLunatik
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Don't sit there and act like any of this bullshite on this board is about anything that you typed. All of this is about trolling other fan bases and you all know. Get the frick outt here with your righteous bullshite.
The LSU Fighting Tigers sports teams are named after men that fought to keep the ancestors of current LSU players as human property and treated them like Michael Vick treats dogs.
Yet, an old white goomer like you suggests they should not care about that at all. It's time for decrepit old racist bitches to die off and let more enlightened people, like Kiffin, run the show and change the name of all LSU teams to something more appropriate.
He is a man of principle, as can be seen by his criticism of Ole Miss.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 6:51 am to SlingingSnakeStabler
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Even LSU fans can understand that, right?
The evergreen answer to this is no.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 7:18 am to MetryTyger
Someone should advise LSU, then.
According to 4 WWL TV, LSU itself acknowledged the connection back in 2017 after an online petition questioned the mascot’s origins. The university confirmed the tiger mascot was adopted in the 1890s, “based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia.”
And this was found on the Official LSU Athletics page:
‘Tigers’ seemed a logical choice since most collegiate teams in that year bore the names of ferocious animals, but the underlying reason why LSU chose ‘Tigers’ dates back to the Civil War.
According to Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., PhD. and the “Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865” (LSU Press, 1989), the name Louisiana Tigers evolved from a volunteer company nicknamed the Tiger Rifles, which was organized in New Orleans. This company became a part of a battalion commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat and was the only company of that battalion to wear the colorful Zouave uniform. In time, Wheat’s entire battalion was called the Tigers.
LSU Athletics: Heritage, Songs and Cheers
According to 4 WWL TV, LSU itself acknowledged the connection back in 2017 after an online petition questioned the mascot’s origins. The university confirmed the tiger mascot was adopted in the 1890s, “based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia.”
And this was found on the Official LSU Athletics page:
‘Tigers’ seemed a logical choice since most collegiate teams in that year bore the names of ferocious animals, but the underlying reason why LSU chose ‘Tigers’ dates back to the Civil War.
According to Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., PhD. and the “Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865” (LSU Press, 1989), the name Louisiana Tigers evolved from a volunteer company nicknamed the Tiger Rifles, which was organized in New Orleans. This company became a part of a battalion commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat and was the only company of that battalion to wear the colorful Zouave uniform. In time, Wheat’s entire battalion was called the Tigers.
LSU Athletics: Heritage, Songs and Cheers
Posted on 5/18/26 at 7:32 am to SlingingSnakeStabler
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I'm going to put this in a way that even an LSU fan can understand.
The Alabama Crimson Tide is not named the Alabama 41st Regiment Tuscaloosa Infantry Football Team.
You see, LSU is named directly in honor of a military unit called the Tiger Rifles (commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat) and the Washington Artillery of New Orleans and their nickname was the Fighting Tigers.
Get it? Understand? Even LSU fans can understand that, right?
You understand that LSU is also not called the LSU Fighting Tigers of the Confederate States of America, right?
Your example seems pretty extreme. Both sides seem to be doing back flips to make the other seem worse than it is.
None of the schools in the South (Or the North for that matter) have a history free of racism. Crap, some of the worst race riots were in Boston, Chicago and Detroit...and Selma has its own history as we know.
To LSU fans credit they are not embracing the past racial bigotry history and rallying around it....but neither is Ole Miss. It is just surreal for people to point fingers at each other while pretending their own past history is free of negativity.
This post was edited on 5/18/26 at 7:33 am
Posted on 5/18/26 at 7:46 am to SlingingSnakeStabler
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The Alabama Crimson Tide is not named the Alabama 41st Regiment Tuscaloosa Infantry Football Team.
However, the National Guard was called out in 1963 to protect black students from being attacked and allow them to be admitted to the University of Alabama.
No schools north, south, east or west was free from racial problems, and realistically should not be pointing fingers at any other schools.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:05 am to DawgsLife
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To LSU fans credit they are not embracing the past racial bigotry history and rallying around it....but neither is Ole Miss. It is just surreal for people to point fingers at each other while pretending their own past history is free of negativity.
I agree with the statement above. Why any fanbase would point fingers at another from the South is something I’ll never understand, especially from some who live in Alabama. It seems people forget Alabama was a staunch member of the Confederacy, and the first White House of the Confederacy is located in Montgomery. As Jesus said in John 8, “Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone.” Maybe we’d all be better off showing a little more humility instead of hypocrisy.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 6:19 pm to Bryno1960
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Maybe we’d all be better off showing a little more humility instead of hypocrisy.
Now you are bashing Kiffin for being a hypocrite, I see.
He disparages the state of Mississippi for succeeding in 1861, spits on the people who hired him and gave him millions of dollars, says Ole Miss can't recruit because of slavery, and thinks the citizens of Mississippi are racist hicks.
Yet, now he is the coach of a team that is named after butchers who fought to keep Africans enslaved and beaten down and beaten and whipped and abused in every imaginable fashion, lives in a state that also succeeded and has citizens that are just as proud of their past history as any Ole Miss fan is.
Is Lane Kiffin retarded? Is that what you are trying to say?
Posted on 5/18/26 at 6:25 pm to DawgsLife
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However, the National Guard was called out in 1963 to protect black students from being attacked and allow them to be admitted to the University of Alabama.
No schools north, south, east or west was free from racial problems, and realistically should not be pointing fingers at any other schools.
As was the national guard also called up in Georgia for racial issues and even later than there were in Alabama.
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1967-1970 Augusta Disorder: During a period of protests against school desegregation and racial injustice, racial violence broke out in Augusta. Governor Lester Maddox called in 200 National Guardsmen and 140 state troopers to assist local police in managing looting and sniper fire.
Better watch out, Kiffin has already went after Ole Miss, Georgia may be next on his list to chastise. Like you said though, Kiffin should probably just shut his mongo mouth and coach football and not point fingers at other schools.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 7:58 pm to DawgsLife
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You understand that LSU is also not called the LSU Fighting Tigers of the Confederate States of America, right?
Your example seems pretty extreme. Both sides seem to be doing back flips to make the other seem worse than it is.
Not extreme at all.
LSU's football team, and other teams at LSU, are directly named after Company B of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, the Fighting Tigers.
For the equivalent to be true of the Crimson Tide, they would be known as the University of Alabama Plowboys or the Tuscaloosa Plowboys, which was a well known cavalry unit formed mostly of Tuscaloosa men.
But, that isn't how it is and your equivalence rationale falls flat on its arse because, you know, Alabama's teams aren't named after a Civil War unit and LSU's are. So, there's that.
This post was edited on 5/18/26 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:21 pm to SlingingSnakeStabler
Please show me where I posted that Kiffin was a hypocrite. I wasn’t referring to him at all, but rather to those on this board who live in states that were part of the Confederacy while criticizing Louisiana for the same thing.
I also don’t believe I ever referred to Kiffin that way. What I have questioned at times is the logic of some posters on this board, especially those who make sweeping generalizations about people from another state based solely on what they read on an anonymous message board.
I also don’t believe I ever referred to Kiffin that way. What I have questioned at times is the logic of some posters on this board, especially those who make sweeping generalizations about people from another state based solely on what they read on an anonymous message board.
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