thiccly OT: mascots on the hot seat in a "cool" place
my old stomping grounds has a new attraction for the whole family. this part of chicagoland is both wonderful and tragic at the same time. check out the lovely little calumet river valley if you visit.
glad to be a wolverine and basically mascot tolerant. even these guys are starting to feel the heat.
If that's the 4th most offensive mascot or name, then we must have made a lot of progress.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I find Notre Dame offensive. But, it has nothing to do with the annoying mascot.
To hell with Notre Dame!
It's just an elf without the cookies.
Excuse me... an ANGRY elf without the cookies.
Any article like this loses all credibility with me when it includes Florida State.
The test for me is whether the folks represented find the depiction offensive. FSU's case is complicated - the Seminole Tribe of Florida endorses the use of their name, consults with the University and helped FSU with both the manner of representation and nomenclature - Osceola and Rengegade are referred to as symbols, not mascots.
The Oklahoma Seminole Nation condemned FSU's use as well as Native American depictions in sports generally. Their opinion certainly matters too.
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Was that satire?
I thought it was a real headline and then I saw the source and didn't want to give them clicks.
Everyone is offended by everything
+1 for a fantastic thread title
I'm offended when sensitive people spend a lot of time whining about the insults they perceive from seemingly everything everywhere. . .So . . . What now? Whose offendedness wins?
Yours. Only yours.
I am offended that you aren't.
How did this abomination not make the list? It's offensive to anyone who actually consumes nuts in their diet.
For those of us not from up there, it's always looked like he's wearing whiteface.
I've always thought he looked like the testicle from Johnny Dangerously.
"Your Testicles and You"
They were clearly outdone by the Rhode Island School of Design, whose mascot is "Scrotie the Scrotum".
If OSU had any balls, they could have come up with a much more menacing mascot.
EDIT: Before someone complains to the mods that this is offensive, please note it has not been ranked as one of the most offensive mascots!
How can that guy have blue balls at an art school? Those chicks bang like an outhouse door in a force nine gale.
Can confirm. Went to art school briefly before flunking out from all of the extracurricular activity.
He's just predicting the next big recruit will commit to Michigan.
It literally looks like a cartoon brown dude in white face
No offense, but ironically I, a 40 year old Wolverine, have recently developed/noticed an allergy to the flowers of the buckeye chestnut tree.
Sorry about the allergy. I'm guessing all buckeye issues go away as soon as it gets cold out.
The entire Irish half of my extended family loves ND precisely because of the leprechaun and the team. The Indy Star staff is a bunch of gobshites.
what about this guy...he's in there somewhere.
savior faire is everywhere.
Buckeyes are nuts... I guess it kind of makes sense.
A Deep Thought on Mascots:
"I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick ‘Americans’ as their mascot." --Jack Handey
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Notre Dame should have gone all out and included props with the mascot: a whiskey bottle and paddy wagon to pick up the mascot at the end of the game.
Btw, what do you call an Irishman sitting out in the rain?
Paddy O'Furniture.
Speaking of Irish jokes, an Irishman walks out of a bar…
disturbing findings from my research for the thread (volume 1, unabridged) .
I never knew about West Virginia's streltsy mascot.
I’m offended that someone would find this offensive. I’m sure someone will be offended by that.
Slightly OT, I'm glad this abomination was never accepted by UM:
Gives me the willies.
Give Willy a pair of pants.
Sparty in for honorable mention after this week!
there's always goodrich if it doesn't work out.
Someday, Sparty is gonna escape that lousy, dead-end town, man. The band, dude, Sparty's band. All they need is a drummer, a rhythm guitar, maybe a keyboardist, and a vocalist, 'cause Sparty on lead just ain't cutting it, man. But he know that. He knows...
The Spartans mascot is definitely offensive...
Among the other things that are offensive to Irish but people don’t give a shit: Paddy Wagon
It’s called a Paddy Wagon because of all the Irish it transported.
What does WKU have to do with any of this
Who exactly is offended by these, would be my biggest question…
Osceola and Renegade are endorsed by the Seminole Tribe. Clearly they, as a general group, aren’t offended by them. So any survey that list them as the MOST offensive, loses their credibility. Same with Vili and the Leprechaun. Hell, what makes the SDSU mascot any more offensive than Sparty?
IMO it’s not the place of random people to be offended FOR other groups of people. And it’s silly that we’ve given them that power. If the Seminole tribe isn’t offended by Osceola, native Hawaiians aren’t offended by Vili, Irish-Americans aren’t offended by the Leprechaun/Fighting Irish name, who the hell is anyone else to find them offensive?
I find your offense of the offendeds' defense of the unoffended offensive. Back to regular programming. /s
While I agree with this sentiment, I believe the Seminole Tribe gets paid a shit-ton(ne) of dollars to allow FSU to be the Seminoles. So they may just tolerate being offended because the price is right.
Should we be offended that they do this? I'm so confused.
I know the topic has been one of some controversy here before, but I am quite at piece with the fact that we don't have a mascot running up and down the sideline or trying to catch aberrant passes beyond the back of the endzone. You don't need that sort of assistance when you have so many visitors and staff present each game and all you need to do is tell them to occasionally look for in-flight footballs, people, etc...
But think how useful it would be to have Bennie and Biff on hand to chase down that damn leprechaun.
It's rich that the group that did this study is from Illinois. The Fighting Illini are still pissed that they can't have their beloved Chief Illiniwek jumping around like an idiot, doing nothing that has anything to do with Native American culture.
As an example of an unoffensive mascot, I present my daughter, who was Otto for 3 years.
