But why not go by War Eagle... its original... it has a history... and there are 50 other teams out there called "The Tigers"... Clemson, Missouri, LSU... just to name a few. i have always wanted LSU to be The Bayou Bengals rather then just Tigers... but that wont happen. Oh... its AU/LSU day... who cares what you are called... ill just call u the POSs from Opelika... have a great day and a horribly embarrassing night. F Auburn Geaux Tigers
Oh and of those many school named Tigers only one actually has one on campus ... that should basically give us supreme right over that mascot name... who cares who had it first. Clemson named its stadium Death Valley before LSU did... but when you hear Death Valley... u think of LSU first. P.S. having a ****ing canary named Tiger doesnt count so dont even try... is that parakeet dead yet ?
Dear Moron: The young men on your team are a cow-college football team . . . you are not Soldiers or Warrior in any sense. None of them have been in combat, and none of them have fought in any war. Hence, you don't need a "battle cry." Please try to get a better grip on reality. Now go soak your head in the latrine.
Well, there's history to the Tigers moniker too. The name of the town, the reference to the Plains and the nickname "Tigers" all come from Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 poem "The Deserted Village" where is says: Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain... Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey... Just one of those quirky college things, like the Army Black Knights having a mule as a mascot, the North Carolina Tarheels having a ram and so on. "Bayou Bengals" is pretty cool, though.
I do think that Auburn folks: 1) have a chip on their shoulders the size of an Iowa class battleship 2) have a certain amount of schitzoid behavior due to not being sure what day of the week they are using a particular mascot.... Perhaps to make things a bit clearer: the Louisiana Tigers paid for our nickname in blood....(short history lesson here) the original Louisiana unit with the Tiger mascot is the Washington Artillery of New Orleans (141st and 935th Field Artillery, US Army) dating back to 1838--does Bull Run, Gettysburg, Anzio, and Baghdad mean anything to you? Dan Hardesty cites this as one of the two units that the nickname came from. Finally, my own personal wish is for this generation of Louisiana Tigers to go through the undecided mascot people like the first President of LSU went through Georgia....let's see how many of the undecided figure this one out:wink: :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige rgds, Butch Cadet of the Ole War Skule
