L-S-U, L-S-U, L-S-U, L-S-U, L-S-U!!!!

Yesterday, the wifey and I decided to head down to the LSU campus for some tailgating. Along with an ice-chest, chairs and a bottle of Jack, I brought a camera to help capture some of the mayhem of the LSU vs Florida pre-game.

As you may know by now, LSU won 28-24. It was an awesome game. For in-depth comments on the game itself you may go here and here. We watched the game at a nearby bar as we didn't have hundreds of dollars to spare on tickets. But we did wade into the tailgating fray, and that's what this little post is about.

We arrived on campus after waiting in about 35 minutes of traffic. We walked along a relatively calm Highland Rd schlepping our cooler, chairs and booze. The sidewalks were full of purple and gold, but the car traffic on the street was at a trickle. As soon as we got onto campus, we loaded up our no hands koozies and set off to meet up with our associates.




They had set up at 8:30 that morning and were hitting their stride when we meet up with them at about 1pm. We got there just in time to enjoy the grilled gator shish kabobs. They were pretty friggin good. There were multiple grills set up and we feasted on chicken wings, ribs, and andouille, not to mention all of the potato salad and other concoctions.

We were set up pretty close to the stadium and strategically close to a building that I used to take Spanish classes in. They were nice enough to leave the building open and let people use the bathrooms. Otherwise it could have gotten ugly.




I was sitting back with a beer and cleaning the bbq off my hands when I noticed what looked like a coffin under the tent next to ours. Upon closer inspection, it was a coffin!!







But not just any coffin. This coffin was fully stocked.




I was so impressed with the whole coffin thing that I decided to walk around the tailgaiting festivities to see what else was in store. I was not disappointed. Apparently some Tiger fans had acquired a stuff Gator toy or something. Check it out:





I knew something was about to go down when the giant guy with the ice-chest started stomping on it. Luckily I was quick enough to capture the essence of Tiger tailgating. Other pictures help to document this as well. I guess sometimes it comes down to people being able to transport their living rooms to campus.

At approximately 5p, we started breaking down the tailgating area in order to watch Mike the Tiger and the Tiger Band enter the stadium. We jostled and pushed and climbed a fence in order to get close enough to get these crowd pics.

The LSU Golden Girls are hot.
Even the people in the stadium were looking at the entrance festivities.

We were all sardined along the street, but I put the wifey on top of the ice-chest and she got a shot of Mike the Tiger pacing about in his cage. Poor thing was probably terrified from all the screaming and hollering.









So, shortly following the entrance we retired to our watching spot while everyone else, or at least 92,000 went to the game and watched LSU go 5 for 5 on 4th-down conversions and beat Florida with a 4th quarter comeback. Awesome fucking game.



The end.