OTish: Our Mascot In Action
Wolverines: Nothing but muscle, sharp ends and anger management issues.
I managed to stumble across two decent You-Tube videos of our mascot in action. In the first one I've opted to name the wolves Brutus and Sparty. You're welcome to suggest other names.
Wolverine vs Bear:
Some more Wolf on Wolverine Action (watch the wolf run for his life):
Finally (there are more on this guy's YouTube Channel), but a clear victory for the wolverine:
I heard that Brandon Graham was training with these. How long until Barwis get some of these as pets?
I hear the wolverines are training Graham how to overcome having short little stubby T-Rex likes arms.
I have always loved the mascot, it is pretty unique among the schools. Too many Bulldogs and others that are more generic. The animal is one mean critter.
I watched a informational show on researchers trying to capture one before.
Problem was, they would run up to 80 miles per day and destroy any cage they were trapped in.
Finally, some trapper guy was hired and built a trap out of log cabin 2-3ft diameter hardwood logs (it looked like Paul Bunyan's bunker) and they got there in time before the Wolverine could chew out.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:04 AM ^
There's nothing scarier than a caged wolverine. Coincidentally, we're all about to find that out this fall as well. I can hear the team chewing through the hardwood logs as we speak.
about a month ago, i contacted a scientist who does work with wolverines and trying to reintroduce them into various parts of the country where their populations have been drastically reduced. unfortunately, there is no study in the state of michigan, mostly canada and alaska, but michigan in the future.
i was going to post a diary about helping them out financially, but all these earthquakes and helping out TomVH stuff keeps coming up.
it would be great to harness the power of MGoBlog for something like this.
I'd be onboard. I always thought it was lame that Michigan was engaged in all these conservative projects, yet we never seems big on wolverine protection / reintroduction. We should be the leading school in the country on that IMHO.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:02 AM ^
We'll be the Wolverine 4Chan, except without all the depraved content and the serial-killer user community.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
B&
Awesome.
Well, I guess I'm out then...
March 10th, 2010 at 11:57 AM ^
I though it would be cool to have a wolverine reserve somewhere in the state. The problem I came up with is that wolverines need too much space. They're generally solitary animals that have huge home territories and frankly with Michigan being surrounded by water i don't know that they would have enough room to spread out the way they like.
You wouldn't be able to contain them either. If they wanted to go through the fence surrounding some type of nature reserve, they'd find a way through it.
Then of course they'd start rampaging through small rural towns or killing campers, and the killings would be blamed on the chupacabra or something and then all hell would break loose.
So yeah. I'm all for it.
out of the tunnel on a leash like other mascots.
Too many disemboweled cheerleaders.
We used to have a live one on the sidelines. I have to imagine a wolverine on a leash is a tasmanian devil-like ball of fury.
Was that first one filmed on the set of Spies Like Us?
in 1976 when he was the Lions assistant special teams coach, spying on a UofM practice.
I feel like our mascot is more apt than ever. The team is now a little smaller, a little leaner, and twice as likely to just suddenly rear up and maul you for 7 points before you know what happened.
Well, that solves it. Size doesn't matter.
Is that what she said?
March 10th, 2010 at 10:19 AM ^
It states "too viscious to remain on campus." Who hijacked the page to talk about sparty players?
March 10th, 2010 at 10:30 AM ^
It must have been interesting to see them at the Detroit Zoo when it had 10 (!) of them at a time. Now they have like 3-4 (two of them being kits).
March 10th, 2010 at 11:22 AM ^
just rekindles the love I have for our beloved mascot...do you think that if I meet a mascot in real life he wont kill me if I have Michigan gear on?
March 10th, 2010 at 11:47 AM ^
Yeah, I kinda had this fantasy of running into a wolverine in the wild, saying "Hey, go blue!," and getting a head nod from it.
Actually, I've read that they would be likely to vanish in no time if you came across one, so long as you don't get in the way of their food or young. I've also read that there has never been a documented human fatality due to a wolverine.
That is because a documented fatality requires a body identifiable as human.
That blood smear in the snow? Yeah, that was Joe Buckeye the hiker.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:29 AM ^
"The University of Michigan Athletic Department reports that Biff and Bennie “grew larger and more ferocious,” leading Yost to conclude, "It was obvious that the Michigan mascots had designs on the Michigan men toting them, and those designs were by no means friendly.""
Awesome.