Tiger Island

This is (was?) a store within a store (that other store being Reeves Marine) that was solely devoted to the sale of LSU Tigers merchandise. After watching countless viewings on Youtube of the new, hilarious EA Sports NCAA 2013 video game commercial featuring LSU football coach Les Miles and mascot Mike the Tiger, I decided I would go outside (yes, outside) and search for new, fashionable and tasteful LSU clothing and whatnot to adorn myself with for this upcoming gridiron season (kickoff Sept. 1^st!), at hopefully a reasonable price. I jumped over the Shreveport Barksdale Bridge and hit the Teague Parkway on my way, nonstop, to Reeves Marine/​Tiger Island. I saw detour signs shortly after boosting the Mazda to its’ top speed (60 – 65, if you’re wondering), and realized, aww dang! They’re shooting that stupid movie (The Fall of Olympus with Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart) next to the Century Link Center! Hey, I LOVE the industry! And welcome back by the way, we are so pumped that you are here! The movie just sounds so stupid though. But we still love you! Smoke billowed from behind the tops of trees from movie set explosions and effects as I hung a left to make my way to Barksdale Blvd, to take an unconventional route to this store. I saw the façade of the White House (very cool!) on the set of this movie, as I burned down Barksdale at a pretty good clip. I finally made my way into the parking lot of Reeves Marine, after taking back roads not seen since the great bootlegging days of this yonder way. I had finally arrived! I walked inside and was surprised and a little confused at what I saw… all of the LSU stuff pushed off into the left corner of the store (Nobody puts Tiger in a corner!). Normally the stuff is out and on full display. And there wasn’t much there. And it was all seemingly old stuff. I asked how much a 2011 Cotton Bowl Cap was (this stuff is like 2 years old!)…and I was told the cap was $ 15…Wow. Really? Plus tax! Fifteen bucks for an old Bowl hat? No thanks. I was thinking more like, five bucks, maybe… It is only now, that I have found out that this business, actually both businesses (Reeves Marine and Tiger Island) are in flux, and are in the process of being sold or have been sold to new ownership. Sooooo, I don’t know how this bodes for the future, much less this upcoming football season, for either business. I guess time will tell. It usually does. It has a pretty strong opinion.