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LSU Tigers

LSU football team plays in the division of the NCAA Division I-FBS college football. The home games are played at Tiger Stadium which is a pretty big stage. It holds 92 400 people. The student section is always full every game and no one to seat sits in this section for any site in any game. LSU's team has won four national championships with his most recent is 2007 as of this writing. This has led to the LSU Tigers as the first team win two Bowl Championship Series titles. Its national championships in 1958, 2003 and 2007. They have won 10 SEC Championships in 1935 year, 1936, 1958, 1961, 1970, 1986, 1988, 2001, 2003, 2007.

The Tigers enter the 2008 season with impressive statistics. They can claim 693 victories. This makes the team December with the most victories in NCAA history. They are also the fourth largest of all the SEC teams. They are only behind Alabama with 787 victories, Tennessee with 771 victories and Georgia, with 714 victories.

Team mascot is Mike the Tiger. He can be found on the campus of the state of the art facility generation and until recently has been the traditional Bengal tiger. The last two Mikes were mixed breeds, but were still beautiful. Since the 1950s in games Mike the Tiger is played by a student with the suit. LSU approved the "Tigers" nickname in 1896. The name is a tribute to the heritage status of the Confederation of Louisiana. The troops from the Louisiana Division of Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia became the Tigers during the Civil War. This was due to their brave deeds and heroic of the two brigades of New Orleans, Tiger Rifles and Washington Artillery. Washington Artillery had a logo with the face of a tiger's head one grunt.

The first Mike lived long with LSU. He had a lifetime of 20 years 1936-1956 and was acquired by the students of LSU Little Zoo Rock a whopping $ 750. He is now on permanent display at the Museum of Natural Sciences at the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.

The rumors and superstition surround each of the Tigers who have had the honor of being named as Mike the Tiger. LSU football team is winning and losing streaks are attributed by many health and happiness each of the six tigers have lived on the campus of LSU since Mike first came to live there in 1936. With four of the previous five Mikes have lived at least to seventeen of age, there may be some of these rumors. Mike VI The current remains at its best $ 3,000,000 in a habitat built in 2005 specially designed for the needs Mike. The funds came entirely from private sources and is the habitat of the past with the latest generation. Mike stays in style with a veterinarian 24 duty hours of the LSU Veterinary School always present. The place has lush plantings, a waterfall and a stream flowing with a wading pool. There are rocks for Mike himself and sunshine in the Box is 15,000 square feet in size.

There are traditions that the LSU football team notes with Mike. Some are quite entertaining. Mike walks through Tiger Stadium just before the start of home games with LSU cheerleaders on top of his cage. Everyone knows that LSU will score a touchdown for every roar Mike lets go on game day. And the more humorous tradition involves the opposing team in the football game days at home. Mike cage is parked in the opponent's locker room door at the far southeast of Tiger Stadium. The opposing team has to walk (or run) from Mike to get to their locker room.

LSU football is all about tradition and Mike is a big part of that long tradition.

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