OT - Vintage 1969 Conference Mascot "Family Portraits"
Just one example - see the rest here: http://imgur.com/a/pGwvx
I find the Stanford “Indian” picture especially interesting in the Pac8 portrait.
Stanford used to be the Indians. They only became the Cardinal in the 1970s.
I'm not sure why Oklahoma seems to be a Native American - the Sooners pretty clearly were white.
Sparty looks like an alcoholic.
Indiana looks like how I would expect every person from Indiana to look after a football game.
The Illini tribe member seems pretty racist.
Wisconsin looks pretentious.
The Buckeye looks like a Milk Dud.
I have had the Big Ten One hanging on my office billboard for about 2 years now. These are great.
But does the Golden Gopher look like the inspiration for Darth Vader?
Who knew that nearly 40 years later Indiana would hire that guy as head coach!!
I posted these in the favorite M pics thread, and I have to say the Ivy League- Penn and Harvaahd- were definitely my favorites.
They also have an updated version. Someone has added in NU and PSU.
Who has never taken a course in zoology. Or watched any of the Discovery family of channels.
It's not that kinda lion.
Although judging by their results after 1993 they should look more like this:
(Google your own inappropriate for the board creepy image joke for inside your head)
Yes and most of the carnivores look like the are ready to feast on the Gophers. How true.
They need to update Minnesota's M to that weird trapezoidal one they use. The Block M belongs to us!
Awww, the Pac-8. How quaint.
when Big Ten meant there were ten "big" schools in a conference.
the 10 biggest state schools in the Midwest because of Northwestern. Plus it's been above 10 almost as long as I've been able to form memories!
i vote that all future references to sparty include this depiction.
Kinda looks like Minnesota and Illinois have their hands on eachother's knees... NTTAWT
Pretty sure Bama should be a big elephant head, not a white boy with a tiny hat.
Technically, as the "Crimson Tide," shouldn't they be some disease-carrying ocean wave?
Brutus has Simpsonesque features, if you look closely.
These were on EDSBS about a year and a half ago. I commented on Corn Nation at the time thusly....
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This week EDSBS turned up a few old family portraits and did a "What's the SEC thinking?" rundown to go with it. Our SBNation blog promptly followed suit for the Big Ten When Men Were Men (and Ten Were Ten). With all these cute family photos going around, I figured I'd dig up your old one too.
Bunch of Looney Tunes if you ask me....
Colorado: Urrrggggghhhh.....Wessssst? Goooooo wwwwesssst? Hawwwwkins connnnntract ooooovvvver?
Nebraska: Be verrrrwy quiet. We're weaving foaw a weal confewence with weal cowweges! Good heavens, we weave and da whole confewence disitegwated!
Missouri:Heeey, man, if you be splittin' what about lettin' a cool cat come jive in the Big Ten-to-Twelve too?
Kansas: "I say, I say, I say, son, you can't be goin' off pretending like we're a football conference anymore. Now, watch me play this game called basket-ing ball."
Oklahoma: "Gosh, I get blamed for everything I do. What if I was in the Southwest Conference...[dream sequence in which Ralph Phillips Sooner combines SWC and Big Eight, then gets to pay players through oil tycoon boosters and get away with it].
Oklahoma State: Why you no-good, long-eared varmint, I oughtta....uh....oh, nothing Sooner...sir. (someone's clearly suffering from an abusive relationship at home).
Kansas State: "Thufferin' this Thuckatash thince Eighteen-Ninety-Three!"
Iowa State: "I tawt I tode you: DOTE PWUT ME NETT TO TH' PUDDY TAT!"
Lookin' forward to making new legends together!*
(Closest thing to a Wolverine, okay?)
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* U.S.A., America, and all support/patriotism thereof property of Iowa.
That one is so odd. Why did they represent the Iowa State Cyclones with what looks like a baby bird? Why is the Sooner (i.e., a white settler who came in sooner than officially allowed) wearing a tribal headress? What crazy drugs is that Jayhawk on? So many questions...
or, as Chris Rock would say, the Uncle you can't be by yourself with.