Best College Mascot Names

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

How high is the horse that you are riding or have become?

I'm riding a horse or have become a horse? A horse riding a horse, maybe?

Actually, I was simply pointing out that we'd had a similar conversation a few months ago, thinking maybe someone might actually want to look back at what was said then.

I'm not the one with the problem, or with the underwhelming self-importance, Tom.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[em_adpi]

Originally Posted by dukemama

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

We're very proud of it.

[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."

[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.

[PhiGam]

We have the best mascot... when he throws the burning spear into the 50 yard line before every game, the crowd goes wild.


Funniest mascot is the Miami Hurricanes' Sebastian. He burnt an effigy of the OU Sooners wagon and got arrested for running on the field trying to extinguish Osceola's spear.

[PhiGam]

If you ever get bored, try to think of 5 div-1 college football mascots that don't end in "s."

[Benzgirl]

Only 5? I can think of 6....

Fighting Irish of Notre Dame
Univ of Illinois Illini
NC State Wolfpack
Syracuse Orange
Midshipman of the Naval Academy
Tulane Green Wave

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Only 5? I can think of 6....

Fighting Irish of Notre Dame
Univ of Illinois Illini
NC State Wolfpack
Syracuse Orange
Midshipman of the Naval Academy
Tulane Green Wave

Stanford Cardinal

[Thetagirl218]

Crimson Tide?

Anyways, I am kinda partial to the swooping Ospreys of course! We just because D I a few years ago, and we currently stink at everything other than baseball and swimming, but there is always hope!

As for Osceola, he is funny to watch at FSU games!