LSU Fans Cook An Entire Cow At College Football Tailgate To Simulate The Death Of Texas Longhorns Mascot

LSU fans celebrated the ceremonial death of Bevo XV during the tailgate in Baton Rouge on Saturday. The Tigers cooked an entire steer over an open flame prior to the college football game against Texas!

It is unlike any game day cuisine you have ever seen!

However, it will be extremely awkward if the Longhorns win the college football game. This could be a jinx!

Rest in peace to Bevo XV, the Texas Longhorns mascot. (Not really!)

The University of Texas at Austin adopted the nickname ‘Longhorns’ in the early 1900s. It was a term adopted by local newspapers to describe the student-athletes in an attempt to differentiate one school from another without writing out the schools’ full names.

As the story goes, the editor-in-chief of the weekly student newspaper at Texas asked his lead sports reporter to refer to the university’s athletic programs as the Longhorns in every article, “and we’ll soon have a name.” His strategy worked!

The Texas longhorn was imported by Spanish settlers in the late 1600s. The university of Texas at Austin officially recognized the Longhorn as its mascot in the early 1900s. It is was adopted by the state as the official large mammal of Texas in 1995. They have become synonymous.

Now, ~100 years later, Texas is on its 15th live mascot, Bevo XV. He officially debuted on September 4, 2016. The classic burnt orange and white steer weighs more than 1,700 pounds. He is cared for by the Silver Spurs, an honorary student service organization that has been active with the mascot since 1945.

Unfortunately, Bevo XV was laid to rest in Baton Rouge on Saturday morning. Just not really.

LSU fans cooked an entire steer at the college football tailgate.

Say what you will about LSU, but there are very few people who can cook like the cajuns. They go all out for the tailgate and that doesn’t just mean booze. There is never a lack of food on game day in Baton Rouge. And sometimes it fits a theme.

For example, Tigers fans cooked an entire alligator before they played Florida at the College World Series in 2023. They did the same for the Longhorns on Saturday.

An entire steer was dropped outside of Tiger Stadium on the night before the game.