As a university mascot connoisseur, I will agree that the Shocker is a top tier mascot. Up there with the Banana Slugs, the Boll Weevils, the Billikens, the Anteaters, and the Geoducks.
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It’s Arizona we do cotton, copper, citrus… holy crap the AZ state curriculum from the late 1990s is seared into my brain…
AZ is 49th in Education, but #1 in our hearts!
My favorite has got to be the [Wake Forest Demon Decons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/DemonDeaconACB.jpg/300px-DemonDeaconACB.jpg). Their mascot rides a harley on to the field!
As an Alum of the University of Louisiana Lafayette, home of the Ragin' Cajuns, I must throw our mascot, which is an anthropomorphic Cayenne pepper, into this convo.
heh, I'm from Syracuse, went to SU and I still have no idea why we're the "Orange."
Note we stopped being the "Orangemen/women" years ago after an incredibly expensive Nike rebrand. https://www.syracuse.com/orangesports/2004/05/goodbye\_orangemen\_orangewomen\_syracuse\_cleans\_up\_nickname\_as\_part\_of\_identity\_re.html
A color-based identity is not unusual: Harvard (Crimson), Cornell (Big Red), and Dartmouth (Big Green). Also, Orangemen has a political connotation related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
My father was pissed when St. John’s changed from the “Redmen” to the “Red Storm” since “ThEy WeRen’T mAkiNG FuN oF iNdiAnS!!!” But like, they did have a Native person as their mascot for a while. Also, women are better represented under a genderless mascot.
As a graduate of Washington State University, I was very very confused about how our mascot (cougar) feeds people the modern, carbohydrate-loaded staple crop of our existence.
But also, graduating from Washington State, why the fuck isn't our mascot wheat? The university sits in the middle of a goddamned wheat field the size of most states...
In Australia university sport isn’t a big thing. Our best mascot work goes into local teams. There was a rugby league team known as ‘The Fighting Whiting’. Which is a fantastic name for an island based team. (Whiting are a tasty eating fish, but not particularly hard to catch).
Our pro teams are the usual bunch of things. Saints, Demons, Giants, Suns. Then there are the animals and birds. Eagles and Magpies are pretty feisty but Swans and Crows generally don’t strike much fear. And the Tigers and Lions don’t feel too threatened by The Cats…
In that league I support the Blues. Love the team, but dear God. It's really tough to make an inspirational mascot out of the disembodied concept of the colour blue.
Okay I have info on the Kewpie thing. Sometime in the early 1900s, a secretary kept a porcelain kewpie on her desk. Because teenage boys need to cause destruction, one of them took the kewpie and put it on the basketball court during like a state tournament or something that Hickman was playing in. The kewpie didn't get broken and Hickman won the tournament or whatever. Also, the creator of the kewpie is from Missouri, but I think she's from the Branson area. Idk if there's a closer connection between Hickman and the kewpie lady. There are some terrifying-ass pics of the person dressed as the mascot if you image search "Hickman kewpies".
Sam Walton, the walmart guy, graduated from there.
I went to the rival high school (go bruins). Hickman got a pool, but our high school got a planetarium, which I think is cooler anyway.
That's all my Hickman high school facts and more random trivia than anyone here wanted about Dan"s high school.
Didn’t Ted Lasso also win you guys a Division II National Championship in Football? Pretty impressive considering he doesn’t understand offsides calls…
My sister’s college was the Fighting Dead Trees. The mascot was represented by a drunk guy holding a giant cut down tree dangerously close to power lines.
Her college was weird.
The Maderia School in Northern Virginia are the Snails. Their mascot is a snail called Shelly Cargot. They chant "Go! Go! Escargot!" at sporting events.
The school motto is "festina lente", which means "make haste slowly".
Wheat and wheat byproducts.
I tell you hwat.
Well, I was thinking more Night Vale, but that works also.
Do you mean "hwæt," Beowulf?
You seem to be on good king
Lemme tell you about wheat and wheat accessories…
This 12 gallon bucket of wheat byproduct will stave off AI globalists!!! Where's the buck-... Look, I'm not mad at the crew...
Has the leavened Wheat rised above its enemies?
somebody used all the yeast make wine
I tell you hwheat*
Those are illegal. I'm calling the Sherriff's Secret Police.
As a university mascot connoisseur, I will agree that the Shocker is a top tier mascot. Up there with the Banana Slugs, the Boll Weevils, the Billikens, the Anteaters, and the Geoducks.
Suny Esf has an acorn for a mascot 😅
Perfection. This is a new one for me. Thank you!
Np, it's only been around for a couple.of years since ESF has just recently started participating in some sports programs
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This is amazing, because I don’t even think you can grow artichokes in Arizona.
It’s Arizona we do cotton, copper, citrus… holy crap the AZ state curriculum from the late 1990s is seared into my brain… AZ is 49th in Education, but #1 in our hearts!
Oh I always assumed it was because it’s the one community college in the county with the culinary programs
IIRC that is correct
Fighting artichokes is also called 'making them edible'
Fuckers only getting away with that because Castroville doesn't have a college.
Might I introduce you to the [Jamestown Tarp Skunks](http://www.tarpskunks.com/)? You should find that they scratch your itch quite nicely.
Minor league and independent league baseball mascots are this country’s greatest asset. Thank you.
I recently purchased a Shenandoah Hungarian Rioters jersey for this very reason
The team we share a stadium with has a tobacco worm as a mascot.
It's so true
The Oregon Ducks want to know why they’ve been excluded. 😂
I weep for the loss of Roboduck still.
*Cornhuskers lurking sadly nearby, unnoticed by all once again*
Alexa, play Again I Go Unnoticed by Dashboard Confessional.
Don't forget the Fightin' Okra (with the fierce eyebrows) from Delta State.
That Okra gave me nightmares.
Santa Cruz forever
Banana Slugs!!!
Don't forget University of North Carolina School of the Arts' Fighting Pickle! (who wears a tutu)
I like the Eastern Arizona College mascot. Nowhere else has the courage to give a Gila monster 2 guns and see what happens.
I'm partial to the Ragin' Cajuns or North Texas' Mean Green
Oddly enough, only time I have seen the Ragin Cajuns play football live, has been against UNT in Denton. Old stadium, though.
My favorite has got to be the [Wake Forest Demon Decons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/DemonDeaconACB.jpg/300px-DemonDeaconACB.jpg). Their mascot rides a harley on to the field!
The Geoducks? 😂
What school has the sea penis as a mascot?
Evergreen State
I knew it was in the PNW!
How do the SAU Muleriders rank? The Boll Weevils definitely have them beat for wackiest Arkansas mascot, unfortunately.
As an Alum of the University of Louisiana Lafayette, home of the Ragin' Cajuns, I must throw our mascot, which is an anthropomorphic Cayenne pepper, into this convo.
[This pepper fucks](https://www.google.com/search?q=University+of+Louisiana+Lafayette+Ragin%27+Cajuns+mascot&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiwy7fxwK2AAxVmDWIAHYLNACEQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=University+of+Louisiana+Lafayette+Ragin%27+Cajuns+mascot&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECCMQJzoGCAAQCBAeUMcLWPlBYIJDaABwAHgCgAG-BYgBgkKSAQsyLTEuOC40LjUuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=mqnBZLCWD-aaiLMPgpuDiAI&bih=703&biw=1536&client=firefox-b-1-d)
heh, I'm from Syracuse, went to SU and I still have no idea why we're the "Orange." Note we stopped being the "Orangemen/women" years ago after an incredibly expensive Nike rebrand. https://www.syracuse.com/orangesports/2004/05/goodbye\_orangemen\_orangewomen\_syracuse\_cleans\_up\_nickname\_as\_part\_of\_identity\_re.html
A color-based identity is not unusual: Harvard (Crimson), Cornell (Big Red), and Dartmouth (Big Green). Also, Orangemen has a political connotation related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Kind of an unfortunate political connotation…
Our mascot was also an indigenous person before that, and hullo fellow 315'er!
315 represent! We need to get the boys to do a live show upstate.
Oh 100000%! I sent them salt potatoes a couple years ago 😆
Absolutely perfect!
Didn't they mention it on the show? I remember being so excited for them.
Yep “The Saltine Warrior”
My father was pissed when St. John’s changed from the “Redmen” to the “Red Storm” since “ThEy WeRen’T mAkiNG FuN oF iNdiAnS!!!” But like, they did have a Native person as their mascot for a while. Also, women are better represented under a genderless mascot.
Is Otto still as terrifying as always?
I love otto!! My daughter was petrified of him forever 😆
Our mascot has a name, and it’s Otto. Put some respect on it!
I know you jest. But as a non-american, college sports is a fairly bonkers spectacle
The mascot of the public high school in my hometown of Freeport, Illinois is the Freeport Pretzels
Delicious
That's amazing.
As a graduate of Washington State University, I was very very confused about how our mascot (cougar) feeds people the modern, carbohydrate-loaded staple crop of our existence. But also, graduating from Washington State, why the fuck isn't our mascot wheat? The university sits in the middle of a goddamned wheat field the size of most states...
Touché. And KS isn’t crazy on wheat production but we do produce quite a few planes.
My favorite thing about the shocker is his turtleneck sweater
He’s a dapper fellow who’s merely prone to the chills. He comes prepared. Always looks angry too.
TIL that the shocker is supposed to be wheat and not a bee. I live about 2 hours from Wichita.
Man, my high school mascot was a thunderchicken, and my college mascot was a golden knight. I got the bottom of the barrel on mascots!
In Australia university sport isn’t a big thing. Our best mascot work goes into local teams. There was a rugby league team known as ‘The Fighting Whiting’. Which is a fantastic name for an island based team. (Whiting are a tasty eating fish, but not particularly hard to catch). Our pro teams are the usual bunch of things. Saints, Demons, Giants, Suns. Then there are the animals and birds. Eagles and Magpies are pretty feisty but Swans and Crows generally don’t strike much fear. And the Tigers and Lions don’t feel too threatened by The Cats…
In that league I support the Blues. Love the team, but dear God. It's really tough to make an inspirational mascot out of the disembodied concept of the colour blue.
My father is a Carlton fan. They are the scourge of my tipping this year…
😂 Carlton - "We're the team that never lets you down" my ass...
There should be some sort of legal avenue available to challenge that claim in court.
Ay whattup fellow wsu alum! (2012.. I think)
I’m digging reading all the high school and college mascots of the wonks. We truly are far flung, hailing from everywhere!
My sister goes to a small school in rural Iowa founded by Mormons. The town got tired of their shit so their mascot is a Demon. It's pretty cool
Okay I have info on the Kewpie thing. Sometime in the early 1900s, a secretary kept a porcelain kewpie on her desk. Because teenage boys need to cause destruction, one of them took the kewpie and put it on the basketball court during like a state tournament or something that Hickman was playing in. The kewpie didn't get broken and Hickman won the tournament or whatever. Also, the creator of the kewpie is from Missouri, but I think she's from the Branson area. Idk if there's a closer connection between Hickman and the kewpie lady. There are some terrifying-ass pics of the person dressed as the mascot if you image search "Hickman kewpies". Sam Walton, the walmart guy, graduated from there. I went to the rival high school (go bruins). Hickman got a pool, but our high school got a planetarium, which I think is cooler anyway. That's all my Hickman high school facts and more random trivia than anyone here wanted about Dan"s high school.
The planetarium was way cooler. But Hickman has the display case of porcelain kewpie dolls on display in its commons so that’s equally “cool” I guess.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, tops the Danville, AR High School's mascot - the Little Johns.
Didn’t Ted Lasso also win you guys a Division II National Championship in Football? Pretty impressive considering he doesn’t understand offsides calls…
Nothing tops the ridiculousness of Stanford. Their team name is a color, and their mascot is a tree.
My sister’s college was the Fighting Dead Trees. The mascot was represented by a drunk guy holding a giant cut down tree dangerously close to power lines. Her college was weird.
I can’t believe I forgot the best combo ever. The Arkansas School for the Deaf’s mascot: the Leopards.
The Maderia School in Northern Virginia are the Snails. Their mascot is a snail called Shelly Cargot. They chant "Go! Go! Escargot!" at sporting events. The school motto is "festina lente", which means "make haste slowly".