http://www.omaha.com/article/20090615/SPORTS/706159893

Published Monday June 15, 2009

Shatel: LSU brings a punch Omaha

This just in: The College World Series is better when LSU wins.

No offense to the seven other teams — OK, six as Cal State Fullerton drives to the airport — here in Omaha.
We love you all. But there's no sense in denying it: LSU is Omaha's team (with apologies to UNO and Trev Alberts).

Nothing against Arkansas, either. The “Omahogs'' were loud and proud and everywhere you looked. If we can't
have gumbo for two weeks, pulled pork is a fine caloric substitute. The Omahogs look like they can throw a party, too.

But let's not kid ourselves. It's Mardi Gras in June again.

You can see it, feel it and hear it around Rosenblatt Stadium. “L-S-U, L-S-U'' is b-a-c-k. There are tiger tails and
crazy feather hats. There are strings of gold and purple beads everywhere. There was so much gold and purple
in Rosenblatt on Monday night that the old relic looked like it was wearing the beads.

We've had some fun stories around here in recent years. But Oregon State and Fresno State don't capture
the imagination like the Bayou Bombers. We'll take a party over parity every time.

And that's really why the Tigers resonate with Omaha. Oh sure, LSU was here so often they could have voted.
And everyone would have voted Skip Bertman for mayor. There was Gorilla Ball. Omaha loves a good fireworks show.

But mostly, Omaha loves a good party. When LSU is here, the CWS is more colorful, more boisterous, more fun.

The feeling is mutual. Omaha carries a reverence in the great state of Louisiana. The ghosts of Warren Morris,
Todd Walker and Eddy Furniss live on in the framed Omaha sports sections you can find on the walls in crawfish
and gin joints from Baton Rouge to Bourbon Street.
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It goes on, but you get the idea...I try to be quiet about living here...I really do...
but, I don't believe you can live, love, dance, eat, drink and play in Louisiana and be an athiest...
it's just that close to happiness. And, I think that's what we take on our trips...a love of life.
The writer is correct, in Louisiana there is a reverence for Omaha, Nebraska and the CWS.

My parents are there cheering for UNC...



Go Heels!

But being a UNL alum...I do appreciate your reverence for Omaha...

A beauitufl city...

ON their way IH ---

Congrats...

My Huskers couldn't make it by Texas this year... kudos to your Tigers!