We are 80 days from kickoff at Lambeau Field when the LSU Tigers begin their quest towards the college football mountaintop. The hype surrounding LSU this year is as big as it could maybe ever get. We are talking New Year’s Eve or bust!
LSU fans are notorious for their passion and their pessimism, but neither of those are the answer to the Tigers getting over the hump, exercising the Alabama demon and reaching the College Football Playoff. The only solution to LSU’s problems this season will be found in sheer, unfiltered, and unadulterated hatred. This is why we began our 87-part series EMBRACE THE HATE where we are counting down the top 87 things to hate as an LSU fan to fuel your fire heading into the biggest football season of all time!
Embrace the Hate #80: Gamecocks
First of all, gamecocks are an animal that fights and in this day and age we cannot tolerate animal fighting. It’s wrong and you will go to jail. Ask Mike Vick. Animals are for eating, cuddling, and shooting (during the proper time of year).
South Carolina’s mascot was named after a famous general Thomas Sumter who fought the British in the Revolutionary War with tenacity and vigor, much like a gamecock. The mascot’s name is Cocky making South Carolina the biggest bunch of arrogant (game)cocks in all of collegiate sports.
The foul mouthed heathens at South Carolina no longer have Steve Spurrier at the helm which might trick you into thinking they might not be as easy to hate as they once were. WRONG! Hate the fact that not only is their team mascot NSFW, but it is a close relative of that rotten little Chanticleer that just spoiled LSU Baseball’s season! Besides it being a truly awful team nickname, this is a perfectly legitimate reason to hate the Gamecocks! Embrace the hate! Fuel your fire in 2016 LSU football fans and hate the Gamecocks!