LSU may have live tiger on sideline vs Alabama: reports

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A chaotic marquee SEC matchup successful Death Valley connected Saturday nighttime pits big No. 14 LSU and No. 11 Alabama. With nationalist attraction connected this ranked game, LSU volition reportedly person a peculiar impermanent connected the tract throughout the game, and it lives up to their namesake.

Multiple reports bespeak that a unrecorded tiger volition beryllium connected the tract for the archetypal clip successful astir a decade.

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Then Louisiana authorities Sen. Bill Wheat, R-37th District, confirmed to the Louisiana Illuminator that the unrecorded tiger volition beryllium connected the tract for the archetypal clip since 2015; beloved mascot Mike VI died successful 2016.

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Mike VII, who has been the school’s mascot since 2017, volition not beryllium the tiger connected the sideline, according to reports. He lives crossed from the stadium successful an enclosure, and the 8-year-old tiger has ne'er attended a crippled astatine Tiger Stadium.

Where this tiger attending the crippled is from and whether helium volition beryllium taken attraction of by LSU, remains unclear astatine the moment.

Garrett Nussmeier throws a walk arsenic the LSU Tigers instrumentality connected the Ole Miss Rebels astatine Tiger Stadium successful Baton Rouge, La., connected Oct. 12, 2024. (SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network/via Imagn Images)

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said this twelvemonth that helium wished to spot a unrecorded tiger backmost connected the sideline successful Death Valley, and this determination could beryllium owed to that wish.

According to the Louisiana Illuminator, Landry acceptable up an unofficial committee to speech to LSU astir bringing a unrecorded tiger backmost to the sideline.

LSU and Alabama quarterbacks with a tiger

A unrecorded tiger is expected to instrumentality to Death Valley up of LSU's matchup with Alabama. (IMAGN)

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Surgeon wide Ralph Abraham, a veterinarian, was reportedly instrumental successful making this hap for LSU. Wheat is besides a veterinarian who provided assistance successful the matter.

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