Game Time

I saw a funny quote this morning on the news: "There is only two things that control the Tide-the moon & LSU!" So to kick off the game tonight fun facts on each school.Geaux Tigers
1) Hey, Fighting Tigers,” —a Tiger sporting event song—was adapted from the Broadway show tune “Hey, Look Me Over.”
2) The LSU mascot, Mike the Tiger, is kept in a pen in the back of the stadium. Before home games, he’s placed in a cage near the visiting team’s locker room to intimidate as they enter the field.
3) In 1958 (seven years before Gatorade was created on the campus of Florida), Bengal Punch was served to LSU’s team.
4) Legend has it that for each time Mike the tiger roars during a pre-game lap around the field is how many times team will score during the game.
5) LSU Tigers always wear white football jerseys at both home and away games, bending the NCAA rule that requires home teams to dress in color, with the visiting team in white.
6) Coach Les Miles requests a taste of grass at each stadium he visits ever since he was caught on tape chewing his cud during last year’s home win over Alabama. (Really. You can read more on timesfreepress.com.)
7) Coach Les Miles earned the nickname “The Mad Hatter,” for his sometimes perplexing, head-scratching play calls.
8) In 1988, during a home game, a crowd of near 80,000 reacted to the game’s final pass loudly enough to register as an earthquake by a seismograph located in LSU’s campus about 1,000 feet from the stadium. (Read more on lsusports.net.)
Roll Tide
1) It is said that Alabama’s Million Dollar Band got its name when someone in the press box said “your football is not very good, but your band is worth a million bucks.”
2) In 1930, an AJC journalist first used “elephant” to describe the Alabama team, saying: “The earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, ‘hold your horses, the elephants are coming.’”
3) Coach Bryant never really liked the elephant as a mascot. He thought they were slow and stupid. Because of this, it wasn’t officially recognized as a mascot until 1978.
4) Bear Bryant claimed to have come back to Alabama (after coaching at three other colleges) because “mama called.” (In reference to the University)
5) Bear Bryant once said he’d “croak in a week” if he ever quit coaching. He died 27 days after his last game.
6) The Crimson Tide was originally referred to as “The Thin Red Line,” back when the University began its football program in 1892.