Have you seen them? LSU billboards go up across the state minutes after national championship victory
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — You may have already noticed it.
A billboard congratulating the LSU baseball team on winning its eighth national College World Series title in program history is presently displayed on Siegen Lane near Airline Highway.
A photo of a billboard congratulating the LSU Tigers on winning their 8th national title.
But that's not the only location.
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Moments after that huge victory, billboards congratulating the team went up across the state.
According to Lamar Dixon Advertising, the company responsible for displaying the ads, LSU sent over the creative design about five minutes after the Tigers won the game. The advertising company had the ads running on available digital billboard space minutes later.
On the billboard, from left to right, are LSU players Casan Evans, Derek Curiel, Anthony Eyanson, Kade Anderson, Stevan Milam, and Jared Jones.
The eight trophies on the billboard represent each of LSU's eight national championships.
LSU defeated Coastal Carolina 5-3 in Game 2 of the Men's College World Series Finals on Sunday.
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The Empire State Building in New York changed its lights on the exterior of the building to purple and gold, and said in a post, 'Shining in purple and gold tonight in celebration of the LSU Baseball's College World Series Championship.'
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