Since the Bama beatdown we have had several emails and contacts with board members about whether LSU Atlanta will be able to make SEC Championship tickets available.

Unless you are a fan of flag football, Saturday's slugfest in Tuscaloosa lived up to the hype as the Game of the Century. So that means people who follow Conference USA and similar non-SEC conferences either thought the game was boring or they came away with the opinion that neither Bama nor LSU have offenses worth a  hoot.

This is crazy.  

I've never seen this kind of hype, but the SEC has never seen this kind of #1 vs. #2 in regular season.  Ever.  The buzz is everywhere, the hype is ratcheting up each day exponentially like the Richter Scale.  So what more can little ole me say about the game than what you can read and see on all of the regular media and the Internet?  

Plenty! There are two "inconvenient truths" that few have brought up in all of this hype, and here they are:

"HEY CORNDOG!"

First time I heard that I didn't even know it was directed at an LSU fan.  Even after it was clear the opposing fan was taking his finger out of his nose long enough to point and compare me to a battered mystery meat log on a stick, it just didn't make any sense.  

Well, count on your buddy Mike A. Tiger to hunt down the truth of the matter, and it evokes the Forrest Gumpism that "Stupid is as stupid does."  So here is the real story of the corn dog reference and how it came to be.  And why those Tiger fans who know the history are laughing even harder about it now.

Every college has its football traditions, and West Virginia has the claim to fame for couch burning. Maybe I should say it’s their claim to flame.  No kidding, when you look up “couch burning” in the Urban Dictionary, WVU is in the definition. Supposedly it started with frat boys setting fire to trash dumpsters after big wins, but that was not sparktacular enough.  An unknown group of Country Rhodes Scholars, intoxicated with victory and moonshine, had a real spark of hillbilly genius and dragged an old couch into the middle of the road.  Finally, they had a tradition to call their own.  And created a grassroots furniture recycling program. The Salvation Army Thrift store there is not happy.

Mike A. Tiger here.  Been busy prowling the jungle and mending from a nasty case of carpel paw syndrome. So I'm back for now and my blogs will be briefer than the past because Mrs. A. Tiger wants me to spend more time cleaning my cage.  And because I figger if I make them half as long I'll get half the complaints.

This is the season to get up out of your isolation and join a group of LSU fans to enjoy Tiger football.  Here are the five 2011 Official View In locations spread around metro Atlanta.  Just by patronizing these places for games you will be helping build our scholarship endowment fund.  And the Tiger Prize Patrol will visit each location at least once during the season. Watch the weekly newsletters during the season for updates! Subscribe here if you are not on the list.  Read on for locations and details...

Our fellow alumni chapters in DFW have organized pregame parties on opposite sides of Cowboys Stadium with parking and shuttle service offered for Tiger fans.  If you are going, check out these links to these as well as a big Friday night Street Party in Dallas

 Dallas Chapter Party and General Information
Tarrant Tigers Tailgate Party Information
Friday Night Tiger Block Party in Dallas - Woo Hoo!!