Teke,

You got that right. Nothing worse than Crazy Mason Commuters or even worse the Parking Services People. They are worse than the campus police.

Kevin
Beta Theta Pi Alumnus
Epsilon Mu
George Mason '97

At the University of Toronto, we are the UofT Blues.. I still haven't figured out what a "Blue" is!!!

Parking Services, GRRRRRRRRRRRR, that's a fierce mascot right there. Those people are MEAN!

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No funny squiggles, just bold letters: TKE

Whoa! Where are you from??? I went to Rocky Mountain High - also in Ft. Collins. Fortunately we got the best mascot in town - the Lobos. The worst mascot in that town is the Poudre High School (pronounced pooter) Impalas. You tell people who aren't from around there about the names from the three high schools and you get some really funny looks. But hey, I love Ft. Collins. It's a lovely city.

P.S. - I'm a CU alum and you beat me to the "Chip" story.

P.S.S. - I usually post under veruca76 but I forgot my password.

A lot of my friends ended up at colleges with strange mascots. For example, one went to Georgetown (Hoyas), another went to Virginia Tech (Hokies) and my sister is a graduate of Cornell ("Big Red", not a big red this or a big red that, just Big Red). My all time favorite team mascot is the one a high school in Poca, West Virginia uses.....the Poca Dots!

My alma mater's teams are the Panthers, which, while not exciting, isn't too dumb either http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif My husband's school, the US Naval Academy, has probably the most boring nickname for their sports teams. They are called "The Midshipmen"

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By the light of the lamp, by the light of the lamp, by the bright shiny light, by the light of the lamp...if you are a DeeZee, you're the best that you can be, by the bright shiny light of the lamp!

My brother attended UMBC, and their mascot is a golden retreiver. Someone donated a lot of money to the school for them to change the mascot.

I go to the University of Tampa, and even though we're the pretty mundane Spartans, our mascot's costume looks like a bananna...

OK, not a 4-year institution, but I did attend Scottsdale Community College prior to transfering. Their mascot?

THE FIGHTING ARTICHOKES!!!! No joke ya'll!

Check it out

http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/info/about.htm

I attend Boston University - home of the TERRIERS.

OK - now I understand that the Boston Terrier is a fairly distinct breed of dog or whatever . . . but seriously, our mascot is a tiny little dog. Not that killer. The actual mascot is this cartoon dog, trying to look all tough, but it's still a 6lb short-hair terrier. Weak - but not as weak as the MIT Engineers or Harvard Crimson, which just suck as mascots.

The Crimson, by the way, have one of those sorta-fuzzy big-headed suits that a guy wears around of sporting events . . . no, not of anything crimson: it's a suit of John Harvard, puritanical 'founder' of Harvard University. He looks like the old Padres friar guy, really stupid looking with a cane and tall-ass top hat, and everything.

The University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes - which actually can refer to a couple of things apparently, but we'll just leave it at that.

And finally, I believe University of Missouri-Kansas City is the Fighting Kangaroos - just bizarre, almost cartoonish.

LMAO at the Fighting Artichokes, Lambkins and BUBBLES!!!!!

Our mascot isn't too exciting either - we're the Rattlers. But there is a local all-boys Catholic school whose mascot is the Buttons.

Apparently, the school was founded a few years after ours (like a little brother school) and so they were named the Buttons because they were baby Rattlers. (There is still much discussion as to whether a button is a baby rattlesnake or the actual rattler at the end of the tail of a grown rattlesnake but whatever...)

Either way, they are either baby snakes or snakes' butts, neither of which sounds all that fierce to me - but they are DARN PROUD of their BUTTONS!!!

LOL, the Terrapins, who are the "Terps" for short, seem to often be referred to as the "Twerps" by their rivals.

Southern Illinois University's mascot is the Saluki. It's some kind of weird egyptian dog that nobody has ever heard of before.

Hey now, that's my mascot too http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif We're the Rose-Hulman Fighting Engineers. Our mascot is Rosy, an elephant. My high school is the Fighting Cardinals, scary! They painted a cardinal in a school sweater(like they wore in the 50's) in a fighting stance baring his teeth. A guy on the school board thought that was dumb, since cardinals don't have teeth, so they painted over the teeth, and now his mouth is closed.

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Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

Funny enough way back in the day the Cornhuskers used to be called the BUG EATERS. I remember listening to News Talk 1110 AM radio and they had some lady who was a HUSKER fanatic and had all this trivia. I know Herby Husker has always been the mascot, but the nickname is quite interesting. I think it had to deal with the Great Depression and the grasshoppers that once swarmed the crops. I could be WAY off on that one but it sounds logical.
Hootie


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http://www.unomaha.edu/~comega

Hootie:
I agree. I can remember the UNL being referred to as the Bug Eaters & I think that your reasoning makes sense http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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Northwestern University's mascot used to be the Fighting Methodists, since the school was started by a group of methodists. Thankfully, the university eventually figured out that they weren't that scary, and adopted the Wildcats (his name is Willie!) instead.

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Well, my college is the cougar, so that's pretty normal. My sister's school was the Belmont Abbey Crusaders (Catholic school, go figure). It's a dude on a horse with a lance and a sword. One of her homecoming t-shirts said "oh what a knight." I always thought that was cute.

But the craziest mascots come from the high schools in my hometown of Columbia, SC. OK, first is the Blazers. What is that?? The picture is of a horse or something. I guess it's supposed to be a trailblazer or something. What's worse is their colors are purple and silver. And of course, being the Blazers, there were always marajuana-slanted jokes. Then there's the Lower Richland Diamonds. Ooo, what mascot strikes fear into the heart of men...? And we cannot forget the Eau Claire Shamrocks and the Heathwood Hall Highlanders. It's a guy in a kilt. He looks like the janitor from the Simpsons! (And the HIGHlanders garner a lot of weed jokes, too.)

My school (Northern Arizona) is the Lumberjacks and the girls are the Lumberjills. We have this really weird, huge statue thing of Louie the Lumberjack outside of the dome.....very odd

Here are a few others from Indiana, first off, the Indiana Hoosiers, I mean, they're the hometown team and all, but Hoosier is just a funny word, and has many interesting explanations! Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The original Notre Dame is in France, why the Irish then? The ISU Sycamores, woohoo, we're named after a tree http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

I can beat that, I go to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green KY and our mascot is BIG RED.. he looks like that purple guy from McDonalds, but he is red.. he is a blob.. actually it could be a she.. there was an ESPN commercial when we made it to the NCAA Tourney and Big Red was in front of a mens room and women's room trying to decide where to go.. we don't know ourselves. He is supposed to embody the spirit of Western in each student (is that why we won our conference in Football and went to the NCAA tourney in basketball and nonone showed up to the games except alum!)

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MTSU is the Blue Raiders and our mascot is "Lightning" the Pegasus (the winged white horse). It's fairy unique, and I think it's cute. I have the stuffed animal. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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~~~Don't worry, be happy!~~~

Oh yeah, I forgot, my highschool was the ***Buccaneers***. The mascot's name was ***Bucky*** the pirate. Bucky used to be so cute, but my senior year (last year), we got a new costume, and now he's extremely sinister looking LOL. The girls teams were the Lady Bucs, but when I first went there I thought they were saying on the intercom Lady BUGS---LOL!

The mascot when I was in junior high was the ***Seals***. Everyone made that <arh, arh> noise and clapped their arms together at the games. LOL! (oh yeah, the seals are scary!)

WVU (where everyone else in my family went) is the ***Mountaineers***. This guy is wearing an all brown leather outfit with fringe, a coonskin cap, and totes a rifle loaded with blanks. Whenever the make a touchdown (which is rare), he shoots the blanks in the air.

HAHA! I also found this mascot on googlesearch called **Goldie the Goldeye**. It's for some kind of baseball team. It's this big weird yellow thing with a baseball hat and uniform, and it has this long funky gold nose. It's ears are baseballs. How screwy! LOL!



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***Tinkerbell***

~~~Don't worry, be happy!~~~

KillarnyRose - My boyfriend went to the Naval Academy. What year did your husband graduate? Where is he stationed? How do (did) you like military life. My boyfriend maybe headed to HI very soon.

Hi EES125! My husband is class of 1987. He is no longer on active duty; he just does the reserves. When he was in, he was a surface nuke on a guided missle cruiser (your bf will know exactly what that is, if you don't! lol) I LOVED military life and I really, really miss it. I just wish it had paid more! When did your bf graduate? what does he do? are you in the Annapolis area? Feel free to e mail me at PittPnthr89@aol.com!



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@~Tracy~@

"...For it's just the flame of a sister's love, that makes the world go round."

Well my HS's mascot is nothing interesting. We're the Raiders. And as Wine&Blue has already stated the University of Alabama is the Crimson Tide. The name came about in a game a long time ago between UA and our arch nemesis Auburn University. It was all rainy and stuff on game day and very muddy. We won and the announcer said we were like a crimson tide rolling over Auburn's Tigers/Eagles. Also, University of Tennessee's mascot is the........VOLUNTEERS!! How scary!!!
And it always ends up being shortened to the "Vols." Honestly, I have no idea what exactly the Volunteers are supposed to represent http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif
liz

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University of Alabama--- ROLL TIDE!!!!!

I go to an engineering school which started out as a mining college so our "mascot" is the Oredigger (that makes for an interesting chant--Diggers--which never sounds like what we're really saying)and it is a cartoonish man holding a pick fork and dressed like he's from the 1800's and our animal "mascot" is a donkey so at all of the football games we have a real donkey named Blaster there for people to pet and they run it across the field like they do the buffalo at CU...corney huh?



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My mascot is pretty bad. We are the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels. You might ask "What is a petrel?" It's an extinct bird that they use to keep on ships, because they were really oily. When it rained, they would light it on fire and send it out to look for land. That's why they are extinct. I think we are also on David Letterman's list of bad mascots. ;-)

Hey PiPhiGirl,

You must go to "Mines."

DeltAlum

Well, we Sooners have the Schooner. It's basically a covered wagon that the pioneering folks used to travel out west way back when.



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just to fill ya in, liz - the "volunteers" represents the Volunteer Corps, used in the military (think civil war era) - ie the 235th Volunteers. They were not professional soldiers - just regular people who joined to fight, generally with just a rifle etc. The movie "The Patriot" is a good example of the role of the Volunteers in battle etc. Tennessee, having a big civil-war background, goes with the Volunteers for this reason. I think.

The mascot at UMass Dartmouth is the corsair. A corsair is a bohemian pirate.

We're the Golden Hurricanes...It'd be alright, but come on, a hurricane in Oklahoma??!? The Tornados would be more appropriate!

The university I go to's mascot is the Rattler -- nothing out of the ordinary.

However, I do have a friend who goes to Austin College in Sherman, Texas and they are the KANGAROOS!! How fierce! Hahaha! We tease her about it.

While Texas A&M's sports teams and students are Aggies, or Fightin' Texas Aggies as we like to be called, our official mascot is actually an American collie named Reveille.

The Aggies is in reference to the fact that A&M was established as an Agricultural and Mechanical college by the Morril Land Grant of 1862. An Aggie is an ag student, or as we say in some of our yells (not cheers, Aggies don't cheer, we yell), Farmers.

The scary military guy that purpleturtle is refering to is Ol' Sarge. He's not an offical mascot, just an image that is used on Aggie paraphanalia based on A&M's history as an all male military school.

http://aggienet.tamu.edu/triamc/graphics/Ol_Sarge.GIF

Now, back to Rev. Back in 1929, some cadets had taken a road trip. On their way back to campus, they hit a stray dog with their car. Since A&M also was well known for their veternary school, the cadets put the dog in the car and took it back to the dorms. In the morning, when the bugler blew reveille (the military bugle call to wake up), the dog began barking. The cadets named her Reveille. After she was fixed up, she became the mascot for the school. I believe the first 2 Rev's were mutts, Rev III was the first purebred American Collie.

Some more interesting facts about Rev. She is considered a full-time member of the Corps of Cadets, and each year a sophomore in the Mascot company is charged with taking care of her. The Mascot Corporal as he is known lives with her and takes her to class every day. She is considered the highest ranking member of the Corps. In Old Army days, (how we Aggies refer to the days gone by) if Rev barked in class you were supposed to get a walk that day. Finally, when Rev passes on, she is buried (now inside Kyle Field, it used to be outside before our Zone expansion) facing the scoreboard, so she can always see how her Aggies are doing.

I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Any of y'all Aggie sorority girls on here dated a mascot corporal in case i made any mistakes?

Kitso
KS 361

University of Michigan Wolverines

Yes we are the Hurricanes but our mascot is Sebastian the Ibis!
Does the average person actually know what an Ibis is? I didn't until I got here.
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ZTAMiami, I know what an ibis is...it's one of those red water birds with long legs and a long beak.

In college, we were the Lafayette Leopards, which is fairly normal, but our rival, Lehigh, used to be the Engineers. They're now the Mountain Hawks, but we still make fun of them for being the Engineers. Plus, their colors are brown and white, and I saw a kid walking around at a football game once with a shirt that said "Lehigh is brown like sh**". Of course, Lehigh always beats us, but it's fun to say stuff anyway.

In high school, our mascot was the Mad Hatters. You would think we would have the guy from Alice in Wonderland on our stuff, but no, we had top hats on everything. Or, if they wanted to be scary, a skull and crossbones wearing a top hat. It is so stupid.

My college mascot was the Statesman. Real exciting, huh? The mascot was of a man dressed in a green suit. Some of the students got real creative in the mid-80's, and came up with the Fighting Okra, so now we have two!!

The Okra has a scowl on his face and wear boxing gloves. He's also green (green okra, not purple), so he still goes along with the school colors of green and white.

I have a friend that went to a high school where their mascot was the Cotton Blossoms. What the heck is that?! :D

Here's a few other gems:

Black Rock High School, Black Rock, AR--Zebras
Ozark High School, Ozark, AR--Hillbillies :rolleyes:
Cave City High School, Cave City, AR--Cavemen
Jonesboro High School, Jonesboro, AR--Hurricanes (and how stupid can you get?? We don't even GET hurricanes in this part of the country!)

LOL my college (Arkansas State University) played them last year, and I saw some people from ASU wearing shirts that said "Beat the Cocks!" Funniest thing I've ever seen. :D