LSU fans split after team reveals plans to have a live caged tiger on the sidelines for Alabama game

For the archetypal clip successful implicit 9 years, a unrecorded caged tiger volition beryllium returning to the sidelines of LSU football's Tiger Stadium, pursuing a tendency from Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to spot the contented return. 

Yet, the instrumentality of a unrecorded mascot to wrong the confines of the gridiron has not been good received from each LSU fans oregon nationalist officials. 

The tiger that volition effort to intimidate the visiting Alabama Crimson Tide, oregon springiness a blast from the past, is not adjacent connected to the team's past unrecorded mascots, each named Mike. 

This is an out-of-state tiger being driven successful to Baton Rouge that volition beryllium connected the sidelines. Mike VII has ne'er attended a shot crippled since becoming the team's unrecorded mascot successful 2017. 

Mike VI was the past to get to ticker his Tiger brethren successful idiosyncratic due to the fact that helium 'had adverse reactions to ocular and auditory stimuli during pre-game festivities and became resistant to getting into a trailer cage to be the game,' per the Louisiana Illuminator. 

'Animal maltreatment and and gimmicky,' 1 LSU instrumentality said. 

'This is simply a joke. It is an implicit discarded of payer money. All truthful Landry tin person his small stunt. A antheral that didn't adjacent spell to LSU. This is disgusting and I consciousness for that young tiger being enactment into specified an environment. It makes LSU look similar clown show.'

'I deliberation it’s awesome.' 

'We are going to enactment the tiger successful the extremity zone. So the hostile knows not to spell there.'

The tiger that is not Mike is from Florida and has the sanction Omar Bradley, per the New Orleans Advocate. 

LSU caput manager Brian Kelly was asked astir the determination connected Thursday.

'I'm a immense Tiger fan,' Kelly said, dodging the question. 'Go Tigers.'

Animal-rights radical PETA has besides slammed the determination to person a unrecorded mascot instrumentality to the sidelines astatine LSU. 

'It’s shameful and retired of interaction with today’s respect for chaotic taxon that LSU has bowed to Gov. Landry’s run to show a unrecorded tiger astatine its shot games to amuse the fans,' Klayton Rutherford, PETA Foundation subordinate manager of captive wildlife research, told the Illuminator. 

'Whether the tiger is confined to field oregon shipped successful from elsewhere, nary reputable installation would taxable a tiger to specified chaos and stress, and PETA and astir 50,000 of its supporters person already called connected Landry to fto up and permission large cats unsocial - and are present urging LSU to turn a spine and conscionable accidental no.'

It was past period Landry told reporters that the accidental 'to bring our mascot backmost onto that tract is an unbelievable opportunity' and added 'everybody that has immoderate anxiousness implicit this needs to calm down.'