A carnie waits outside the "Hulabalooty Booty Booth," where Tulane auditions its next Patrickshaun Ramseyking. Oh, and serves a pretty good poboy but man you would think they could cut back on the horseradish in that remoulade they probably relied on the carnie's taste buds and that's a bad idea because a carnie's tongue is like a wet shoe insole dusted with sand you can use it to distress old furniture which makes sense because if you've ever seen carnie-tongue you'd be distressed too.     With Pokey painted like a Tiger to celebrate the game, Gumby makes a triumphant return to Bourbon Street to relieve himself make "Green Waves" for the fans. You can really see how pumped up the fans are in this photo. This was taken just before Pokey disgorged the 63 Luck Dogs he'd consumed earlier that morning. Take that, Nathan's hot-dog-eating-Japanese-guy.     Nick Ryder and Cody Allen are a lot more badass than Tulane's current pelican. Does the pelican have an orange ant-shaped robot? Does the pelican have a bright pink painted helicopter? Huh?! Does the pelican have a nerdy friend? Wait, yeah...probably. But still no robot, right? Didn't think so. TAKE A LESSON, STUPID PELICAN. Well, dang...that was unexpected - quite the bitter loss. Not as bitter as the new Lime Sour Daiquiri ULL fans made on the way back from their beating, but it still smarts. You know how sometimes if you're playing around with some kids and you accidentally (or if they're an Auburn fan, on purpose!!) bump them, they fall, and then there's this weird delay and then they start screaming like their lungs are trying to crawl out of their throat? You know what works to make the crying stop? You can let the kid hit you back a couple of times and they will forget all about the crying. Tulane, you're our punch back. The "Olive and Blue" and LSU have a long history, and the Gween Rave have actually taken a few from the Tigers here and there. Heck, did you know that Tulane has more SEC victories than LSU at this point? It's hard to imagine a team that has been through more than Tulane in the past year, and they are to be commended for their perserverence. That doesn't mean that we won't mash them into gummy bits with the furious rage of a hyena on trucker speed, but you gots to give the credit where the credit is due. For all the talk about the Tigeplainsgles and their myriad mascots and stunted "battle cries," it's worth having a look at various incarnations of the Wreen Gave. Currently, the mascot is a budgy pelican nicknamed "Riptide." Tulane's students actually voted on this name. If LSU students were given the opportunity to rename "Mike," what would some of their choices be? The Trough's suggestions, in no particular order: Mista Boudin Chimesy Canessauce McCrinklefry Floyd Duplantis Tapeworm Plankroad Petey Dennisquaid Sir-Shreds-A-Lot Before the pelican came along, Tulane had arguably the baddest logo in all of sports: Can you believe that thing? That is one angry anthropomorphic, amorphous slab of green something-or-other! It doesn't have fists or feet - it has curls! Frothy curls! It's like a furious bag of E. coli-coated spinach! It's like a chunk of pissed-off pork with the fatback still attached, if pork could hold a "Tulane" pennant. It can't. Trust us here. Ah, who are we kidding. Whether it's the green frayed-maxi-pad-Gumby mascot, or the loony pelican, this is going to be a beatdown. The Tigers are some kind of hacked off at last weekend's events and the Hullabaloos are just going to hope their jerseys will camouflage them in the grass before Glenn Dorsey consumes them. It won't matter because one time this guy tried to hide a poboy from Ali Highsmith and Highsmith just hunched down and started sniffing and then busted through some sheetrock and scared this old lady but he got his poboy and a deep thigh bruise which he just yelled out. Prediction Trindon-Holliday-in-your-pocket, 56 The other half of "the rag," 3. Welcome to The Trough, a place that really gets to the meat of LSU's opponents. Ok, not so much the meat, but the sinewy gristle and thick connective tissue. We then feed these funbits through a grinder to get a coarse meaty bounty, and that's what is on display here. It should be a given that while The Trough is loosely related to LSUChicageaux.com, it's more like a Baton Rouge uncle than a Tuscaloosa cousin. In other words, what's in The Trough is obviously not endorsed by any official LSU entity. They've got better sense than that.