OT: Please make it stop - mascot stuff
Although, I'm sure this isn't serious....please don't be...this is a submission by a children's book publisher with their ideas for Wolverine Mascot.
Wolverines, "fierce, but approachable".
Maybe photoshoppers can have fun with this.
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/here-we-go-again-childrens-b…
January 8th, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
January 8th, 2012 at 7:41 PM ^
It's Stitch From Lilo and Stitch with wings on his forehead.....
January 8th, 2012 at 4:01 PM ^
Words fail to describe how bad those designs are...
January 8th, 2012 at 4:09 PM ^
No, just no, if this is in earnest.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
let's have both and name them Maize and Blue.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
And just to fuck this up some more, let's name the blue one Maize.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
that "wolverine" honestly looks mentally handicapped. Or he just met Denard and is a little starstruck.
January 8th, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^
Lmfao
January 8th, 2012 at 4:07 PM ^
I kind of like it, I've noticed there are no toys to buy for young children to make them Michigan fans. I mean I'd probably buy a few mini-Wolverines, and it wouldn't hurt to have them on the sidelines to amuse the kids at the game, and I think it makes Michigan seem more "professional" and could helps with recruits who are just using college football as a stepping stone to the NFL.
-Chet
January 8th, 2012 at 4:12 PM ^
Unless we start recruiting 5 year olds, I don't see a recruit picking a school based on the mascot.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:14 PM ^
Really Chet? No toys for young children?
January 8th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
MDen has this pillow pet:
I think that's enough.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:05 PM ^
I will never understand. I may have considered buying one if it was, you know, a wolverine.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:52 PM ^
Can I interest you in a fox?
January 9th, 2012 at 2:19 AM ^
January 9th, 2012 at 10:28 AM ^
I have that one on my desk at home, along with a wolverine I picked up at the Natural History Museum. The best stuffed wolverine I have is from the WWF but even he doesn't look fierce enough. I guess to show my wolverine love, I'll just stick to pictures from the zoo.
January 8th, 2012 at 6:00 PM ^
My daughter owns that pillow pet.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:34 PM ^
This is kind of weird looking, Says it's a beach ball:
January 8th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
I've been a Michigan fan my whole life without having any family members go there before me and I never once wondered where their mascot was. You know what brings in fans? Guys like Denard.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:09 PM ^
I've been a M fan as long as I can remember. The winged helmets and winning tradition is why I love M.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^
There are a half-dozen or more different styles of Michigan-garbed plush teddy bears; at the M Den right now you get a free "UTL" teddy bear with a $200 purchase:
So the notion that there aren't any cuddly M things to buy for kids is wrong.
Next, if you think that it might make the atmosphere of Michigan football more "NFL," I suppose that you are right, although NFL mascots are all mostly so awful that collegiate mascots look good by comparison.
But if you suggest that it ought to be a goal of Michigan football to present an NFL game-day experieince, I could not disagree with you more. My default decision-making, absent any better reason, is that if the NFL does it, Michigan ought NOT to do it.
btw: Did the "Mascot Books" website crash? Or did they pull it down?
January 8th, 2012 at 11:50 PM ^
I own that and am grown.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
You gest.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
THAT is a Wolverine.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:08 PM ^
The second one sure looked like this guy.
January 8th, 2012 at 6:29 PM ^
yup. i've never even seen that movie and the first thing i thought was definitely "that's stitch"
January 8th, 2012 at 8:51 PM ^
Schid is a schloth
January 8th, 2012 at 4:15 PM ^
January 8th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
Run away..............
January 8th, 2012 at 6:26 PM ^
these are a complete insult to all that is michigan.
the only thing that would even be remotely close to acceptable is having another live wolverine on the field.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
I just can't decide which ones worse.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:19 PM ^
The answer is both. Or B.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
"You can't get your picture taken with a Block M," he told the magazine. "Mascots are really embraced by the youth demographic and we want to take advantage of that, for all the reasons that are obvious."
...we disagree, Dave Brandon.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:29 PM ^
I think I wouldn't even be mad.
Looks like I just slid down the slippery slope....
January 8th, 2012 at 4:34 PM ^
January 8th, 2012 at 5:57 PM ^
Looks like one of the mascots on that Chappelle's Show skit about STD's. A mixture between crabs and herpes.
January 8th, 2012 at 7:11 PM ^
Emmy or bust. This is the only mascot that I endorse.
Either that or a giant inflatable Brady Hoke about the same size as BD's Mongo Man that walks around pointing and pooping gold all over the field.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:33 PM ^
We need to think way outside the box for our certainly inevitable mascot. I nominate these guys (they're not doing anything right now and could be had for cheap)
January 8th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
...and the guests were asked to dress as the abstract concept of their choice. A female friend went as the color blue. There are possibilities here.
(And yes, she looked good....)
January 8th, 2012 at 4:34 PM ^
I want a live wolverine on our sideline, sparty and brutus would be intimidated by it. Those two furries look like they would get their lunch money stolen and be forced to lick dog poo by other mascots.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
The one with the butt-cut looks like he's spinning vicodins on his fingers. Not a good message for the youth.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:42 PM ^
January 8th, 2012 at 4:50 PM ^
I'm really confused. I've been a Michigan fan since I was a kid, yet there was no mascot around to hold my interest. How the hell did I become a Michigan fan at such a young age if there was no mascot? It sounds like I defied all logic and reason.
January 8th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ^
I dont even know WTF that first thing is. It looks like a dog that got the shit beat out of it and tattooed a winged helmet on its head.