LSU Football: Ed Orgeron’s Mardi Gras float makes unnecessary joke

LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron had his own float at Mardi Gras this week.

I love a good joke as much as anyone. But when it comes to Ed Orgeron, some of the jokes are getting old.

LSU’s head football coach, unsurprisingly, was on a Mardi Gras float this week (which I wrote about on Friday).

I’m all for the Coach O float. I love the spirit of it.

But when I saw a full forward facing photo of the float, I had some reservations.

Above Coach O on the float is a scoreboard with “Coach Orgeron 1 Closed Captioning 0”.

This is obviously a reference to Orgeron’s speech.

I’m sure this is well intentioned — considering it’s in New Orleans.

But the joke about Coach O’s speech has grown tiresome. Especially after reading Orgeron’s comments to Sports Illustrated last month.

Coach O told Sports Illustrated “I want to thank those people, because those people give me internal motivation.”

“All the naysayers, doubters making fun of the way I talk, it just motivates me internally. You’ve been around me. You can understand me. People say they can’t understand me. That’s not true.”

I get it. Coach O’s cajun accent is different than what people are accustomed to hearing. It’s unique.

But the jokes, those aren’t unique. They’ve been made thousands of times. And it’s clear from Orgeron’s comments to Sports Illustrated that he doesn’t view the jokes in a positive light.

Coach O is an incredibly smart and intelligent man. Anyone suggesting otherwise is simply wrong.