{"id":2227,"date":"2016-10-11T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:16:39","slug":"lsus-mike-vi-2005-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2016\/10\/11\/lsus-mike-vi-2005-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU&#8217;s Mike VI: 2005-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LSU<\/strong> mascot <strong>Mike the Tiger<\/strong> passed away today at the age of 11. The radiation treatments he underwent for spindle-cell sarcoma last spring\u00a0were not able to stop\u00a0the growth of his tumor, and it was announced in early October that the cancer had spread.<\/p>\n<h2>LSU&#8217;s Mike VI: 2005-2016<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mike VI<\/strong> was born July 23, 2005 at a rescue facility in Indiana. Originally named Roscoe, he arrived at LSU in August 2007 and attended his first football game that fall. Mike was a curious and playful tiger; having been raised and bottle-fed by humans before arriving in Baton Rouge, he maintained a genuine\u00a0interest in his human visitors on campus. Youtube research reveals that he could be a bit of a clown, especially in front of young children, and he seemed to recognize at least one of his regular visitors.\u00a0Mike VI was a reliable guest at LSU football games\u00a0until last season, when he generally chose not to get in his trailer. As @MikeTigerVI told Texas A&amp;M mascot @ReveilleIX on Twitter last season, &#8220;I am a cat and I do what I want&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When not entertaining visitors, most of what Mike wanted to do involved strolling his habitat, snoozing in the Louisiana sunshine, playing with his various toys, or going for a dip in his pool. LSU provided him with a home that is second to none, and his caretakers did a wonderful job of making sure he had plenty of enrichment in the form of new and different toys and occasional changes in his habitat to explore. Mike VI\u00a0was a beloved member of the LSU community and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/77213406\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/77213406?et=0T-GXX21QhBhjUsR3SSKpw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=pYEXrZ1g1YfvPy0Yt2KdosHPvEejUEcVFmhOAPJnxNA=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU mascot Mike the Tiger passed away today at the age of 11. The radiation treatments he underwent for spindle-cell sarcoma last spring\u00a0were not able to stop\u00a0the growth of his tumor, and it was announced in early October that the cancer had spread. LSU&#8217;s Mike VI: 2005-2016 Mike VI was born July 23, 2005 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86,665,666],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sec","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-mike-the-tiger","tag-mike-vi"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78598,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/78598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}