Best College Mascot Names

[Benzgirl]

Yes, the Kappa question was a joke.



Sorry, I missed the previous thread.

I was hoping to read more of the Fighting Okra - type mascots out there that I had never heard of. Yes, we have all heard of the Div. I mascots. Let's hear it for the Bollweevils of the University of Arkansas, Monticello.

[kstar]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Yum, good BBQ!

(except the top pic is upside down.)

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by kstar

Yum, good BBQ!

(except the top pic is upside down.)

No, the top pic is how it should be.

Speaking of that.......I find it absolutely hilarious when I see a bunch of Fail-U fans with upside down longhorn stickers on their cars.

.......surely they realize that they are giving our university money every time they buy one.

[Benzgirl]

McCallan,
What is the story behind Bevo's name? Someone once told me, but I can't remember it. The only thing I remember is that it had to do with a score of a football game.

[dukemama]

Everytime I hear "TCU Horned Frogs", I just giggle.

[twinkle555]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Here is your Geoduck


Ok, I just read what a Geoduck is. And, I can honestly say the mascot is much more attractive than the real thing.

That looks like a green penis burrito

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

McCallan,
What is the story behind Bevo's name? Someone once told me, but I can't remember it. The only thing I remember is that it had to do with a score of a football game.

There are a few rumors about it that get told more than others. I'll just post the wikipedia entry about it........it's a good summary.

Origin of the name Bevo

"Bo" made his first public appearance at the halftime of the 1916 Thanksgiving Day football game between Texas and archrival the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (later Texas A&M University), a game in which Texas defeated the Aggies 22 - 7. Following the game, Ben Dyer, editor of the UT campus magazine The Alcalde, referred to the mascot as BEVO. It is not known why he chose this name, though various theories have been put forth.

The best-known tale has been called into question.[9][10] The legend claims that the name came about due to an incident of vandalism led by students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. It is true that in 1917, four Texas Aggies kidnapped the longhorn and branded him with "13 - 0", the score of A&M's 1915 win over Texas. Texas students are rumored to have retaliated by changing the steer's brand to Bevo, as is sometimes claimed. However, there is actually evidence that Bevo was fattened up and served at a football banquet in 1920, due to the fact the university did not have the money to take care of him and he was not tamed to roam the campus. The Aggies were fed the side they had branded and presented with the hide, which still read 13–0. Since Ben Dyer had used the term one year previously, this would mean that the A&M prank could not have led to the name. Another story states that it is possible the editor had "Bevo" in mind, which was a near beer. However, the beverage did not become popular on campus until a later time, so this does not explain why Dyer would make such a reference.

Perhaps the most plausible story was the one reported in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of UT: "Through the 1900s and 1910s, newspapers ran a series of comic strips drawn by Gus Mager. The strips usually featured monkeys as the main characters, all named for their personality traits. Braggo the Monk constantly made empty boasts, Sherlocko the Monk was a bumbling detective, and so on. The comic strips were popular enough to create a nationwide fad for persons to nickname their friends the same way, with an 'o' added to the end. The Marx Brothers were so named by their colleagues in Vaudeville: Groucho was moody, Harpo played the harp, and Chico chased girls ("chicks"). Mager's strips ran every Sunday in newspapers throughout Texas, including Austin. In addition, the term 'beeve' is the plural of beef, but is more commonly used as a slang term for a cow (or steer) that's destined to become food. The term is still used, though it was more common among the general public in the 1910s when Texas was more rural.The jump from 'beeve' to 'Bevo' isn't far, and makes more sense given the slang and national fads of the time."

[em_adpi]

Originally Posted by dukemama

Everytime I hear "TCU Horned Frogs", I just giggle.

We're very proud of it.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by macallan25

the term 'beeve' is the plural of beef, but is more commonly used as a slang term for a cow (or steer) that's destined to become food. The term is still used, though it was more common among the general public in the 1910s when Texas was more rural.The jump from 'beeve' to 'Bevo' isn't far, and makes more sense given the slang and national fads of the time."

I had no idea that there was a plural form of beef. This place is so informative!

As for odd mascot names, I have always wondered what a "Purple Ace" (University of Evansville) and a "Hilltopper" (Wester Kentucky) were exactly.

[kstar]

Originally Posted by macallan25

No, the top pic is how it should be.

Speaking of that.......I find it absolutely hilarious when I see a bunch of Fail-U fans with upside down longhorn stickers on their cars.

.......surely they realize that they are giving our university money every time they buy one.

Not really, we don't buy the official ones so we don't pay copyright to tu.

[lsucajun8]

I personally love the LSU fighting Tigers!!!!

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by kstar

Not really, we don't buy the official ones so we don't pay copyright to tu.

Of course it's the official one. It's the exact same logo. I've been in all of the well known OU merchandise stores in Norman and seen them hanging on the wall. I thought it was pretty odd to see them for sale the first time I went up there, but a friend told me why people buy them. Even he thought it was silly, and he goes to OU.

I don't care, I just think it's funny.

[kstar]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Of course it's the official one. It's the exact same logo. I've been in all of the well known OU merchandise stores in Norman and seen them hanging on the wall. I thought it was pretty odd to see them for sale the first time I went up there, but a friend told me why people buy them. Even he thought it was silly, and he goes to OU.

I don't care, I just think it's funny.

Not quite, tu doesn't own rights to all longhorn cattle.

Some stores might sell the official merch., but we don't use the official one on T-shirts because tu threw a hissy about it, and the ones on most of the cars I've seen aren't the official ones.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by kstar

Not quite, tu doesn't own rights to all longhorn cattle.

Some stores might sell the official merch., but we don't use the official one on T-shirts because tu threw a hissy about it, and the ones on most of the cars I've seen aren't the official ones.

I didn't say that Texas owned the rights to all longhorn cattle.

I said that this image is copyrighted.


The ones on most cars is this ^^^^, usually in white though.......turned upside down. I mean, this is a really silly argument. This is the sticker that is used. I've seen it countless times and I think I would know if the one being turned upside down was different than the real logo. This is what is sold in Boomer/Sooner books, the university bookstore under the parking garage, the Nike Sooner store on Campus Corner.......the official NCAA logo of UT.

I know about the T-Shirts using the Longhorn logo. The university tried to do the same thing to A&M when they made the "Saw Em Off" stickers and shirts with the Longhorn decal with broken horns.

AGREE TO DISAGREE

[DeltAlum]

Here is "Ralphie," the University of Colorado's live mascot who runs at the beginning of each half at CU home football games. Watching it is pretty damned impressive.

You don't want to stand in Ralphie's way.

By the way, Ralphie is actually a female.

The Falcon, mascot of the United States Air Force Academy is said to be the only "performing" mascot in the NCAA.



The ones below also sometimes "fly by" during pregame at AFA. They're pretty damned impressive, too.