After a couple of days of only marginal movement on their already record-setting performance in this year’s Rocco’s Jell-O Shot Challenge at the Men’s College World Series, the LSU faithful found a second-wind as the Tigers enter the Championship Series against SEC rival Florida. In between shouting “Geaux Tigers!” in mid-conversation and downing corndogs, on Saturday the LSU fan base crossed the 30,000 shot threshold, making Cajuns everywhere proud.
We should have seen this coming. The drinking prowess of LSU fans, after all, has been well established for decades. Every home football weekend the LSU campus in Baton Rouge is transformed into the mecca of tailgating. Every opposing fan who visits Baton Rouge on a fall Saturday is left wide-eyed and amazed at the scene of organized human debauchery.
Gumbo, jambalaya, smelling like corndogs, and unabashed binge drinking have long been a way of life for Tigers fans and for the past week they have taken their show on the road to the College World Series where their beloved Tigers are contending for a national championship. The poor city of Omaha and its many fine, upstanding residents may never recover.
Something tells me, though, that after LSU’s game 1 victory over Florida in extra-innings, the Tiger fans are far from done. Hell, if I know those Cajuns like I think I do, 40,000 by tomorrow isn’t out of the question. In fact, at this point, I’m fully expecting it.