Just curious to see what kind of fans we have out there. Does being a true fan mean that you know everyone's name on the roster, every football rule, knowing where the best players went to grammar school or just living in the area and being supportive? I thought this would be a fun question in order to give people a chance to post how they justify being an LSU! fan. Hope everyone has a great day!!
Say there are six football games between top-20 teams on TV and LSU is unranked and playing on the road against a nobody. An LSU fan may be watching TV, but he is listening to the radio.
I think bieng a TAF member is an automatic invitation to be a true tiger fan. :lol: I don't think bieng a true Tiger fan can be quantified. My family has had season tickets since before I was born but I would still be a tiger fan even if I never had season tickets or been to a game. You are born a Tiger fan if you ask me. And if your not you can only be inducted by a Tiger fan that was born a Tiger fan. Now let's all gather and sing Koombaya.
Someone who, in a land of homos and lesbos (or USC and NorCal fans if you will), wears team apparel dispite the obvious "outnumberment," and despite the fact that he cannot find, for the life of him, any LSU gear anywhere, even though they continue to be ranked in more and sports as the years go on. I am... I mean, that, my friends, is a true Tiger fan. :thumb: Always reppin' the South... GEAUX TIGERS!!! (that's my favorite hat)
Living in the area?!?! Not fair. You tell me, am I a true LSU fan? I do: - watch every televised football game I can - own lots of t-shirts, hats, seat cushions and other purple and gold crap - try to make one home game per year - own VHS of Georgia 03 and the 2004 Sugar Bowl - get so excited before kickoff of a huge game that I could run through a wall I don't: - pay any attention to recruiting - bother to learn the players' names who aren't big contributors - read any LSU publications - know or care much about LSU football before I started following them (mid 1980s) Basically, when I return to my birthplace, Baton Rouge, and start talking about Tiger Football I am left in the dust unless we are discussing something that happened in the current season during the course of a game that was on national TV.
I did meet some not so true and some diehard LSU fans at Talladega. I wore my hat and I was approached by this man, and he told me that he was going to wear his hat, but since LSU lost to Florida, he didn't want to. My 9 year old son looked the man in the eye and told him that he was not a "True Tiger." I was very proud of him at that moment. We also heard several LSU chants from other fans and they would yell at us, "Geaux Tigers!" My friends that we were with are Ole Missy fans and they could not understand what all the fuss was about with total strangers yelling at each other. I told him that he never would since he was a fan of the "runt of the SEC.":lsup: BTW, I will be watching football Sat night, but I will have the radio on. A true fan also has visited his Mother in North Alabama and then left to drive to the top of the nearest hill to listen to WWL 870 so he can listen to the game, making his MOM and WIFE mad at him. I am guilty of that. :hihi:
Someone who makes a point to pack there P&G when traveling everywhere they go especially in enemy territory(FL. AL. AR. GA. & MS.) even in down years. Supports the team through the whole year not just football season. I don't think you have to go to every home game but make you sure you know the score of the games with 24 hr of it ending helps.
A true fan is if you love the Tigers. And I think there is a tad of validity about being "born a Tiger fan." Still, we do pick up some followers along the way for no particular reason. My favorite example was a student I taught up here in Texas some years ago. His dad was an Ole Miss grad, but the son LOVED LSU. The year I taught him, his dad took him to the LSU/Ole Miss game in Tiger Stadium. He swore it was the best experience of his life--and he bought me an LSU license plate that still hangs in my classroom. He's college-aged now; I wonder if he goes to LSU...
