A caged Bengal tiger was wheeled on to the field of Tiger Stadium in Louisiana’s capital of Baton Rouge for the first time in nearly a decade before kick-off of Saturday night’s football game between the state’s flagship university and its Alabama counterpart, fulfilling the wishes of the state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry.
The tiger in question – whose forced participation outraged animal rights activists – was not the one which lives on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus, Mike VII.
