Does your university have a funny or unusual mascot?

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by EagleChick19
Sugar and Spice,
Here's a website that gives you the history of the Nittany Lion: http://www.happyvalleyonline.com/Nittanylionhistory.htm
Hope you enjoy it!

EagleChick19

Thank you . . . it was something I was wondering about.

[EagleChick19]

Originally posted by sugar and spice


Thank you . . . it was something I was wondering about.

It's no problem. I go to school about 35 mins away from PSU.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
We're the Badgers . . . gotta love it.

We weren't actually named after the animal, we were named (I don't remember the exact story, so forgive me) after the miners who originally settled in southern Wisconsin -- they found that the best homes were dugouts in the hills, and soon after that people started referring to them as "badgers."

Here's a little bit of Bucky Badger history for you:
http://www.uwbadgers.com/traditions/bucky_badger.aspx

Other Big Ten mascots:
Does anybody know exactly what a Nittany Lion is?
When I was little, I accidentally referred to Purdue's mascot as "the Waterheaters" instead of "the Boilermakers."

In high school our mascot was "the purgolder" . . . I still don't know what that is. I can top that, though -- a nearby high school's athletic teams were known as "the goslings," i.e., the baby geese. Intimidating! But best of all was my middle school mascot. I went to Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School -- our mascot was "the Fighting Iris." You know, like the Notre Dame mascot, only Georgia O'Keeffe was famous for painting flowers, so . . .? Super-lame . . . but funny.

Are you talking about Watertown with the Goslings? GPBoy went to school there and I tease him for it all the time! My college mascot is a Pioneer, only there is no actualy costumed mascot, just a big blue and orange P. Yippee. Next year, however, I will be a Golden Eagle when I transfer.

[White_Chocolate]

My high school was Cairo High School pronounced K-ro. We were the Cairo Syrupmakers. Our mascot was a syrup pitcher.



My first college was Valdosta State Blazers. A ball of fire!!!

The school I'm at now is Grenadier. WHAT THE HELL IS A GRENADIER??!?!

[WingNut]

My college mascot is a donkey with a stick of dynamite in it's mouth, named Blaster. We made a golden colored idol of him for our homecoming float two years ago and simply referred to it as the Brass Ass.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

They changed my college mascot since I was there so I won't get into that one.

My private school's mascot is the griffin. It would have been nice to have a mascot that you could see at a zoo.

[White_Chocolate]

but who the hell wants to go to college with fifty other people who were lions, tigers, and bears(. . .oh my)!

i like the diversity. it sure makes it easier to remember.

however, i like the mascots that are non-animals or a conglomeration of words. . .

purdue boilermakers. . .a train. . .toot-toot
OU Sooners. . .
Aggies
Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay Mutiny

it makes you wonder who was puffing on some buddha when they were putting the teams together. . .


Coming Soon:
Boston Southeast University Sponge Bob Squarepants

I could see the signs for those pep rallies/games

Go BS!!
Soak them up!!
Make them wet!
Clean them up!
BS Rules

[ZetaAce]

Hokies!



*Hums VPI fight song*

[KappaTarzan]

we are the umass lowell "rowdy riverhawks". thats right.
lol

[UDZETA]

We are the dayton flyers but our mascot is Rudy....it is a cross between super man and the red barren. He has a really big head and chin. It's a little creppy if you as me. I don't know what they were thinking...

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin


Are you talking about Watertown with the Goslings? GPBoy went to school there and I tease him for it all the time! My college mascot is a Pioneer, only there is no actualy costumed mascot, just a big blue and orange P. Yippee. Next year, however, I will be a Golden Eagle when I transfer.

Yeah, Watertown is the Goslings! I ran cross-country and track in high school, and we'd always have at least a couple meets at Watertown -- and every single time we'd make fun of the mascot. Not that ours was much better, but still . . . who'd be scared of the Goslings?

[MoxieGrrl]

I remember reading a while back about a school who had to change their mascot.....they were the Devil's Lake Satans. Now how's that for an intimidating school mascot?

[VT Tri-D]

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[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by sugar and spice



Yeah, Watertown is the Goslings! I ran cross-country and track in high school, and we'd always have at least a couple meets at Watertown -- and every single time we'd make fun of the mascot. Not that ours was much better, but still . . . who'd be scared of the Goslings?

Aah that's so awesome - where did you go? We could have ran against each other - we had a lot of meets with Waterhole as well!

GP Boy is angry we are making fun of his beloved Goslings again.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Richard Stockton College- Ospreys

An Osprey is a large fish eating hawk...it was endangered when the school was founded in the 1970's...thats what you get when the school is founded by hippies.