I just started LSu two years ago and I got a friend that goes to Auburn and I asked him was he coming down for the game and he told me a bunch of horror stories and that was the reason he would not come down here. My question ot some of you old fans and alumni is this? Why does Auburn make up lies on LSU? I know it is fun to have a big rivalry and I been brought up to hate Auburn, but I think these stories that they tell their kids are stupid and crazy. I was in Birmingham this summer, and all I heard was how crazy all our fans were and how stupid we act, I am just wandering when did all the hatred begin. Did wingnut start all this?
I lived in Auburn for 5 years. Back in the Bo Jackson Days. The rumors were going around then. In fact our neighbor in Auburn's grandmother was killed by an LSU fan after they beat LSU in Baton Rouge. :wink: Glad I moved into all of this hatred.
There was one game where there was trouble. 2001 in Baton Rouge. The Auburn team started out the game with a 15-yard unsportmanlike conduct penalty for the team jumping on the midfield Tiger logo. Then at halftime the Auburn punter went on the field during the Tiger band halftime show and shoved an bandsman. Wingnut and his team disrected and incited the home crowd, which also remembered the "cigar" incident in 1999. After the game a few hooligans took it out on a few Auburn fans. Nobody was injured but there was a lot of verbal harrasment. Some doofus set fire to a paper mache tiger tail on an Auburn van. There have been no incidents since then, home or away. But the urban legend of 2001 has own all out of proportion in Auburn fans minds. They have told absurd tales on their boards. Folks who have never even been here repeat and exaggerrate them over and over and they get bigger and more unbelievable all of the time. it doesn't seem to matter to them that no other opponent feels this way and that LSU has consistently been rated as one of the best places in America to watch a football game. I have heard that "dozens of cars are burned every game". "Visitors fear for their lives", "Rapes and assults are commonplace", Grandmothers and little kids flip the bird", "people pee on Auburn fans from the upper deck.", "people throw whiskey bottles at visitors". They get more unbelieveable every year. You hear a lot about bad LSU fan behavior on the Auburn boards. Rarely from anywhere else. There have been a lot of stories, some true, but many of them untrue. TRUE LSU fans chant the TIGERBAIT taunt incessantly. It's supposed to annoy the opponent, just like the Tennessee band playing Rocky Top 600 times a game. It's supposed to be a good natured taunt. Laid back opponents just smile and ignore it, opponents with some swagger chant a counter-taunt right back ("Roll Tide", "Boomer Sooner"). Both are OK with Tiger fans. But we don't understand timid fans who feel THREATENED by it. We don't actually feed fans to the tiger. Tigerfans drink before and during games. I'd say half of the crowd has at least one drink on gameday. Most don't overdo it, they won't let staggering drunks into the stadium. Obviously there are some who drink to excess and a few of them become swaggering pr!cks. The cops arrest dozens of such fans outside every game. But stories of drunken grandmothers hurling whiskey bottles at cheerleaders are just urban myths. FALSE Visiting fans often fear for their lives. People who truly fear for their lives call the police. Many fans carry cellphones and there are dozens of emergency call boxes all over campus. The police haven't reported calls from people fearing for their lives on gameday. It's mostly just the petty thefts and vandalisms that big campuses in big cities get every day. Urban myth. Whiskey bottles, beer cans, urine, etc. are thrown on visitors. Bottles and cans aren't allowed in Tiger Stadium. Since 9/11 even purses are searched, so these projectiles just aren't available. Does some popcorn and ice get thrown? Probably so in any stadium. Urine? Give me a break -- urban myth. The cops are extremely aggressive in tossing anybody caught throwing anything, even a beach ball. Police in Tiger Stadium ignore abuses. Nonsense. The security guards and the police agressively eliminate people who throw things, people who threaten, and even people who are rude to their neighbors. Fights only happen in the LSU student section and the students are across the stadium from the visitors. There is a guard and a cop for every section in the house. This is a controlled crowd. Just my opinion, but I think the only thing we have to apologise for are those few rowdy fans who take their smack-talking over the line. They don't actually hurt anybody but their vulgarities are taken as threats and cruelty by visiting fans. We should self-police this and call in the cops whenever we see it happen. But if they get their feelings hurt by hearing TIGERBAIT 500 times, then they are just weenie fans who should stay home. :geaux:
Yeah I was in a fight with an AU fan that escalated rather quickly. I stabbed him in the heart with a trident.
