LSU Football Players Tell Fans To Show Some Class

This was in the LSU student Newspaper today. I will have my thoughts on this after the text of the letter.

Football players ask student section to eliminate vulgar chants

LSU All-American defensive lineman Glenn Dorsey and running back Jacob Hester signed an open letter published Wednesday in The Daily Reveille, asking the student section to tone down its vulgar chants.Here is the text of the letter.

An open letter to the LSU student section in Tiger Stadium.

The LSU student section is the heartbeat of Death Valley and the center of emotion for our great stadium.But during the last two games, vulgar language directed at our opponents by the student section has been disappointing and embarrassing to our school.Your chants can be heard by the national television audience that tunes in from all over America.

When those chants include offensive language, it only damages Louisiana State University. More importantly, these chants can be heard by young children in the stadium who come to see their Tigers play.We need to support our team. You are important to our success. But that doesn't mean you need to insult our opponents. Let us, the players, take care of our opponents through competition on the field.We are taught by our coaches to act like champions, play like champions and win like champions. We need you to do the same.

We hope you are with us.Geaux Tigers!

Glenn Dorsey

Jacob Hester

Ok Tiger fans. This week I talked about myths about SEC fans here and especially an alleged incident that was false regarding LSU fans at Kentucky.

However there have been incidents at the Ole Miss and Bama that has the SEC on edge. People throwing stuff on the field and at players etc. That is uncalled for. Now at LSU we have rarely had incidents like that. However the VULGAR CHANTS SHOUTED BY THOUSANDS AT THE TWO RECENT GAMES has to stop

Now we are on National TV this week. The fact is that the chants at the South Carolina game and especially the Florida Game were uncalled for. This has become a big controversy I know. The university said stop it and the student are acting cocky about it.(Again showing people react the opposite you want them too when you tell them what to do).

However the University is right. Now I am no puritan and no one wants to make Tiger Stadium a Church choir. During game I utter quite few expletives and F bombs my self when I am excited. However no one is talking about that. We are talking about chants that done in unison and can be heard on TV(SEE FLORIDA GAME AND TEBOW) and through out the stadium.

I want Tiger Stadium to be rowdy as hell. I don't mind at all if LSU students get on that line of good taste and straddle it for all its worth. I don't care if people sneak booze into the game. Heck I did it and I still take a taste at the games. However if you go too far the University will overreact.

Last night on The Sportstap show they were talking about student fan behavior. They offered a solution that is a real possibility. That is until the students refrain from that 1 percent that the administration is asking them not to do then the student section(ALL OF IT) goes to the nose bleed section. That would horrible for the atmosphere and not help our team. This will happen if this goes on.

Therefore do one thing. Just(along with 8,000 others) do not shout a vulgar chant that millions on TV can hear as well as 95,000 in Tiger stadium.

I love the student section. I fight to get tickets over there. Again I don't mind vulgar talk around me at the game or general wildness. However you have no right to subject 90,000 other people to that.

My main concern is that University will overreact. This is a battle you cannot win. Now we all know our opponent this weekend. We know we hate Auburn. We also know that the Auburn Quarterback has a name that is so so so so so tempting to do something vulgar with.

Just resist it.