Worst D1 Mascots

col reb · Mar 23, 2007

Well------------at least they HAVE a mascot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess that ole Col Reb just struck too much fear into the children.

bitter ND · Mar 25, 2007

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From 1930 to 1972, they were called the Indians. In 1972 after talks between Native American students and the administration, the student senate voted 18-4 to dump the name. The student body voted 1755 to 1298 in favor of re-instating Indians. 3 years later in a second vote, students went 885 to 1915 against the name Indians.
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That's really gay that they'd change it from the Indians to a tree. With Indians, you can do so much more with the mascot to fire up the crowd- whooping and hollering, riding around on a horse, leading the crowd with a tomahawk chop, etc. The problem with Stanford is that after bowing down to a small group of PC activits, who don't even represent the larger Indian community, they went out of their way to pick something that could not be construted as offensive to any other group ever again and ended up with one of the gayest symbols around.

LSUTiga · Mar 25, 2007

bitter ND said: ↑

That's really gay that they'd change it from the Indians to a tree. With Indians, you can do so much more with the mascot to fire up the crowd- whooping and hollering, riding around on a horse, leading the crowd with a tomahawk chop, etc. The problem with Stanford is that after bowing down to a small group of PC activits, who don't even represent the larger Indian community, they went out of their way to pick something that could not be construted as offensive to any other group ever again and ended up with one of the gayest symbols around.
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I agree but at least they chose one....Notre Dame took one that the opponents were calling them- Guess it was like "Turning the other cheek".

Exactly where and how Notre Dame's athletic nickname, "Fighting Irish," came to origination never has been perfectly explained.
One story suggests the moniker was born in 1899 with Notre Dame leading Northwestern 5-0 at halftime of a game in Evanston, Ill. The Wildcat fans supposedly began to chant, "Kill the Fighting Irish, kill the Fighting Irish," as the second half opened.
Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates - who happened to have names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan - "What's the matter with you guys You're all Irish and you're not fighting worth a lick."
Notre Dame came back to win the game and press, after overhearing the remark, reported the game as a victory for the "Fighting Irish."
The most generally accepted explanation is that the press coined the nickname as a characterization of Notre Dame athletic teams, their never-say-die fighting spirit and the Irish qualities of grit, determination and tenacity. The term likely began as an abusive expression tauntingly directed toward the athletes from the small, private, Catholic institution. Notre Dame alumnus Francis Wallace popularized it in his New York Daily News columns in the 1920s.
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>Where the Suga Bowl Beyotches got their mascot< :hihi:

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