Mike the Tiger is, of course, the mascot of LSU Tigers. The first Mike was purchased, oddly enough, from the Little Rock zoo.
My uncle (Daddy's brother-in-law), Dr. L. D. Newsom was head of the Entomology Department at LSU for probably 20 years, and we visited them on a few occasions. On one of those trips, they took us on a tour of the LSU campus, and one of the required stops for any such sight-seeing is Mike. I am guessing that Mike III (1958-1976) was probably the one we saw, and he was an impressive animal. I am not an LSU fan, but ever since then I have been a fan of Mike.
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