BlueDragon

April 14th, 2011 at 1:50 AM ^

I guess it's different when you grow up in Michigan, but Buckeye hoopla has been all over the place as long as I can remember.  Buckeye players and logos are used in TV ads and news broadcasts.  Heck, going to class today I saw three different "Beat Michigan" T-shirts.  The hot new trend these days is to cover up m's on signs with duct tape so that "Central Campus" on a sign reads "Central Ca=pus," or "Mathematics" reads "=athe=atics."  It's frankly embarrasing that the university lets people embellish its signs like that in the name of "school spirit."  Maybe after a week or two but come on, campus signs have been taped up like that since at least August.

readyourguard

April 14th, 2011 at 10:16 AM ^

So State and PU spend money on research, development, market research, and prototypes only to shit can the whole project when their respective fan base gives them the big FU?  

mikoyan

April 14th, 2011 at 10:28 AM ^

I could get behind Michigan having a real wolverine on the sidelines though.  Heck, they could have one of the cages like the Raptor cage in Jurassic Park on a shaker table with a sound board.

WolverineHistorian

April 14th, 2011 at 10:56 AM ^

I read about Fielding Yost arranging to have a live wolverine be wheeled around the big house at games in the early 30's.  He was inspired to do that after Wisconsin had made it a habit of wheeling a caged badger at their home games...(most likely the only time we copied Wisconsin in anything). 

I believe that little tradition only lasted a couple years because it was too much of a hassle trying to get the wolverine in it's cage without being, you know, mauled to death.  

But if they ever want to try it these days, I think those 2 wolverines still live at the Detroit Zoo.  An MSU fan who works there named them "Sparty" and "Bucky."   

pinkfloyd2000

April 14th, 2011 at 11:12 AM ^

They should have made PP either with an angry face, or a happy one -- pick one or the other, and go with it. Instead, they opted for some strange hybrid of both with an incredibly disturbing & vacant stare.

Look into PP's eyes; there is nothing there. They are dead. These are the eyes of a serial killer.

Evil Empire

April 14th, 2011 at 2:31 PM ^

IIRC the concept of a walkaround costume mascot was proposed ~1990.  It was almost as dorky looking as the fake Michigan mascot being pummeled by MSU fans that made it onto that Bryant Gumbel HBO show.

And much dumber than the Willy The Wolverine that prowls the sidelines at Grove City College in PA (red wings/stripes on white helmets btw):

 

Hardware Sushi

April 14th, 2011 at 7:46 PM ^

Purdue has that damn train already, why don't they just get rid of the stupid, creepy head? The body is just some football player, I don't think they make boilers wearing pads...

It's not really even a full-scale mascot. It's like the kid that went out on Halloween with the Spiderman mask and his winter jacket over the rest. Not a full costume - not a real mascot.