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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.
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