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    Dr. Saturday

    Mardi Gras float mocks LSU’s national championship flop

    By Graham Watson | Dr. Saturday – Mon, Feb 20, 2012 3:12 PM EST

    (MardiGrasParadeSchedule.com)

    It's been almost two months since LSU was embarrassed by Alabama in the BCS National Championship game and now the ridicule has even seeped into Mardi Gras.

    (MardiGrasParadeSchedule.com)A group called "Le Krewe d'Etat" put together a float mocking the Tigers' national championship efforts with everything from LSU's inability to get past midfield to quarterback Jarrett Lee's rotting away on the bench to Bobby Herbert's tirade in the postgame press conference. It also has a caricature of Nick Saban holding up the crystal football wearing a Superman (perhaps it's Sabanman) outfit. Nothing was off limits and the resulting float should have made LSU fans turn their heads away in shame.

    LSU came into the national championship ranked as the nation's top team, but was manhandled by an Alabama defense that allowed the Tigers to get past midfield just once. The result was a 21-0 rout by the Crimson Tide and the unseating of LSU as a national title shoo-in.

    Don't worry LSU, spring football is right around the corner and with it, a new season and a chance to look forward to being ranked No. 1 in 2012.

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    Crystal football to Throw the Flag.
    Graham Watson is on Facebook and Twitter: Follow her @Yahoo_Graham


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    64 comments

    • speedo
      speedo  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 months ago
      I bleed purple and gold but that is funny.
      • ak-roady
        ak-roady 3 months ago
        Really? Is it like a swirl, or does the gold just get all mixed up in the purple?
      • dslkjflkasdjf
        dslkjflkasdjf 2 months ago
        Im a huge LSU fan and I would have to agree...that is awesome! And Ak, yes, its a swirl...duh
    • MCrome
      MCrome  •  Birmingham, Alabama  •  2 months ago
      I'm a Bama fan, but hell I don't hate LSU. I don't like playing them, cause you never know what's gonna happen in that game. LSU fields some real talent every year, but I do feel that Bama boys are much better coached.
    • busters
      busters  •  Freeport, Florida  •  2 months ago
      Les Miles never can get over the top,he always finds a way to screw up.when he lost to ole miss a season or two ago,and then almost lost to tenn,in the last few seconds.Lee is the one that kept his nose clean and showed loyal to the tigers not our self centered over hyped QB jefferson.Miles just waited for the chance to dump Lee so he could bring back his little pride and joy.Ala was ready for the running back Jefferson ,and they may not have won if Lee had been put in but a closer game it would have been.The float says it all.
    • edward k
      edward k  •  3 months ago
      That's was hilarious!
    • Joey
      Joey  •  Sacramento, California  •  3 months ago
      I was down there and saw that float last night at Bacchus !!!!!
      • Tru
        Tru 3 months ago
        No, you got your parades mixed up. It wasn't Bacchus, it was Krewe D'tat. D'tat is Friday night, Bacchus is Sunday night. Krewe D'tat is known for hilariously and brutally skewering local and national scandals and events. Bacchus's theme was a salute to Louisiana'a bicentennial.
    • pat m
      pat m  •  Long Beach, Mississippi  •  3 months ago
      Now that's funny as heck
    • Georged
      Georged  •  3 months ago
      Like Bobby Bowden said, It's very tough to beat a great football team like that twice. The losing team has a big emotional advantage in the rematch, especially with a poor effort like that with the questionable coaching. LSU fans remember that great 7-3 victory over Ole Miss in 1959, but guess what the score was in the Sugar Bowl rematch? Ole Miss 21, LSU 0! LSU could have tried a few trick plays against Bama, and at least that would have shown that they were really trying!! Same thing with Jarret Lee; play him! If the things you are doing are not working, they you have to try something else!!! I think LSU definitely needs a new offensive coordinator!
      • Paul B
        Paul B 3 months ago
        The LSU players voted to rematch Ole Miss in the 1960 Sugar Bowl after the Ole Miss supporters "baited them" in the Oxford newspaper the rest of the year after the 7-3 LSU regular season victory.

        LSU had suffered some late season injuries to some key players, and Ole Miss kept LSU RB Billy Cannon bottled up all game long in the Sugar Bowl.

        LSU turned down a Cotton Bowl bid and walked into a trap that LSU Coach Paul Dietzel knew awaited them in an Ole Miss rematch.
      • William
        William 2 months ago
        LSU's whole football history has been Billy Cannon's return & Saban winning a NC, then leaving LSU to win another NC with his recruits.
      • cajuninca
        cajuninca 2 months ago
        William, you're ignorant and an idiot.
    • BIG O
      BIG O  •  Baton Rouge, Louisiana  •  2 months ago
      WE are like brothers Lsu and Bama. We will always fight each other, but when we are attacked by another conference, we will stand together. Mardi gras was last week and the NC was last month . Time to move on.
    • geaux_tigers
      geaux_tigers  •  Shreveport, Louisiana  •  3 months ago
      we laugh to keep from crying
    • larsb
      larsb  •  3 months ago
      ha ha
    • Scott S
      Scott S  •  2 months ago
      BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

      That is some funny stuff.
    • Gary J
      Gary J  •  Highlands Ranch, Colorado  •  3 months ago
      Float was great. What I really miss: SHOW YOUR #$%$
    • PhillipB
      PhillipB  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  2 months ago
      After watching them dismantle my Dawgs in the second half of the SEC title game I admit I really expected much better from them in the final game.

      They had a helluva great season and none of them should hold their heads down.

      They simply got beat by the better team ... and this year they get Alabama at Tiger stadium 11/03/2012 ...

      Let's see either school pull it off again :)

      GEORGIA BULLDOGS Let me hear you BARK !!!

      Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
    • Debbie
      Debbie  •  Longview, Texas  •  2 months ago
      it should be funny-but its dead serious!!!!
    • ROLL PICKLE ROLL
      ROLL PICKLE ROLL  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  3 months ago
      Glad to see even LSU can take a joke. Les Miles......is the joke. Poor schmuck had no game plan and how in the hell did he take LSU undefeated all season to have my beloved Crimson Tide embarress them was even a shock to UA fans. The man can NOT recruit like Saban and can NOT coach like Saban. Just saying.
      • Randy M
        Randy M 3 months ago
        and yet he beat saban 2 in a row with no offense what so ever hrm
      • Matt R
        Matt R 3 months ago
        Just saying...since Miles can't recruit and can't coach like Saban can I guess that explains why he has a winning record against Alabama.
        It's OK Bama fans, we know you had to fire an Alabama Coach (Shula) and hire an LSU Coach (Saban) to get your program winning again. We'd rather you just say thank you and go on your way.
      • A Yahoo! User
        A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
        Randy and Matt, Jealousy noted. Move along lil brothers.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      We SHOULD be shame to mock a coach who deserves it? Come on Graham...you must be gay.
    • Keith
      Keith  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 months ago
      I'm a huge LSU fan, but when you get spanked as hard as they did, and it was a total beat down, let's face it, this mockery couldn't happen to better bunch of losing underachievers ! ! ! ! Wake up boys, wake up!
    • john
      john  •  Huntington Beach, California  •  3 months ago
      They get 5 first downs and 91 total yards. They should be banned the next two years from playing in any bowl game.
      • BIG O
        BIG O 3 months ago
        No buttbreath John, gay california people like you should be banned from marrying your male college roomate..........
      • Java
        Java 3 months ago
        Lighten up, John. And leave Mardi Gras to those who want to let the good times roll.
      • 4thplaceismine
        4thplaceismine 3 months ago
        the stadium still reeks of the crap that lsu called football. oh, but wait, they won 13 games.... big zero, haha, you keep talking about those 13 games since it makes you feel better for that beat down.
    • Alice
      Alice  •  Reading, United Kingdom  •  3 months ago
      Back in the mid-80s, when football arrived in the UK, the TV station figured they'd go with some youth appeal and got a couple of know-nothing kids - (I kid you not) "The Vicious Brothers" - to present it, and they had their ultimate, "we have to change this" moment, when they pronounced Bobby Hebert as "Herbert". ('Specially as 'a bit of a Herbert' is a slightly archaic phrase for "foolish chap" over here). I expect better proofreading from Dr Saturday...
    • J-Mack
      J-Mack  •  3 months ago
      Alabama most definitely did not embarrass LSU. LSU embarrassed themselves.
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