2011 New Orleans Bowl: LOUISIANA (32) SDSU (30)

[jllanclos]

Somebody tapped me on the shoulder about 3 times from behind early in the game, and I ignored him. I stand because I'm legally blind and watching through binoculars. In the middle of plays, people stand up when they get excited (long punt returns, for instance, or long passes downfield). If I'm sitting, I miss the play. So I stand so I can see the game I paid to see. I won't apologize to anyone. There's a big fat HDTV right in front of you if you want to sit. I'll stand. I understand for health reasons, some people can't stand the whole game. For "health reasons" (my vision), I stand the whole game. Different perspective.

[Supercajun71]

No, its not too late! ESPN was so over the top calling the school everything but the right name. Brands are born and developed. In many cases, they are registered, not just formal names, but anything and everything to do with the brand. You are protecting your turf, legally.
Saturday was a definate step backwards. Proof? Pull up any blog or site that has some sort of comment section. The casual fan on these sites as well as SDSU fans all refer to the school as La-Lafayette or Lafayette. Hell, even the coments in the Times-Pic, the overwhelming majority refered to the school as something other than what it is. The general public takes their que from the media. If the media can't get it right, then no one outside of the Lafayette area will, whether its athletics or academics. The whole point of the name change was to back away from the directional implications of "Southwestern". Instead, the directional componet is alive and well, thanks to ESPN and other national outlets.

We can keep sending e-mails and the SID can keep using the "What we want to be called" history lesson in each sports media guide or the school can take a more proactive approach and have a meeting with ESPN, Gannett, Fox sports, and whoever to get a point of educating those who make these production decisions at these national media outlets. Up till Saturday, you could feel that strides were being made, you heard more UL or Louisiana than the ULLA etc. Saturday was a huge, huge, step backwards.

Until UL decide to register- trademark the desired name/brand and defend it with legal muscle, this is going to continue to happen.

[anhil8tor]

I ate some of the biggest oysters i've ever seen friday night at acme oyster house...


i had maybe the best breakfast ever at Stanley's....


My son (7 years old) stood the whole game... when we hit the game winning field goal I grabbed him and hugged him tight.. i'll never forget that feeling.. total joy.. pure happiness.. he talked about us winning the whole way home.

[Turbine]

It is so bad I am of the opinion the only reason they even say "Louisiana" AT ALL . . . is so the rest of the country won't confuse UL with all the Lafayette locations in Virginia, Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Missouri and New Hampshire

[BabbForHeisman]

The person behind me asked me to sit down when I stood for the band coming on the field before the game. True story.

[Turbine]

MVP smile

[Crawfish]

There were very few times during this game when sitting was appropriate.

[caissy]

I remember hugging anything and everything that would let me, I think I even hugged my seat. But the image burned in my mind from Saturday leading up to the game was walking up the stairs to the dome from Champions Square and looking down at a sea of Cajuns! Best, weekend, EVARRR!!!!

[cjr3888]

One of the guys with us went talked to someone on Bourbon and the guy admitted he left in the 3rd quarter because in his opinion the game was getting boring. Bad decision by that guy.

[Turbine]

Did I see Marty Fletcher in the SDSU section?

[ULshooter2491]

One of my LSU friends was texting me the tweets throughout the game. Zach Mettenberger had a good one. "Tim Tebow said a prayer for the UL receivers before the game tonight."

Haha

[RaginWaldo]

with :35 seconds left, I flipped my hat inside out, put my fist in the air and shouted "Remember the ULM Game!!!" then started chanting "LETS GO CAJUNS" along with the crowd!