![]() (You did realize universities have classes, right?)Īll jokes aside, many colleges and universities put a lot of energy into maintaining just the right amount of athletic prowess and fun-loving folly on and off the field, and nothing encapsulates school spirit like a team mascot, powerful or… otherwise. When you’re in college, athletics can seem like the bottom line of your university’s reputation – that and its stimulating academic programs, of course. Of all the things in the world, few beat the thrill of watching college sports from the student bleachers. Pick something that can actually look intimidating and not like a mutated hot dog.The Top 10 Most Bizarre Mascots in College History Pick a shark, pick a killer whale, pick a phirana, heck pick a large mouth bass. Heck, there are even some rather obvious ones. ![]() There are so many great choices out there. If you are thinking about changing a mascot or are a new school and need a mascot, make it a sea or water based one. If you are going to pick a sea or water based mascot, make it a good. Let me give some advice to Evergreen State, and while I’m at it let me give to all colleges out there. So we have Speedy Geoduck and he’s at the ready position to fight and cheer for his fellow classmates. But of course, that would be just too bland. There’s other sea creatures that the school could’ve of chosen from. I know that there is an attempt at humor and irony, Evergreen State is an alternative liberal arts college, but still it fails at achieving what it set out to do. This is a rather lame choice for a mascot. You know, I’m not going to sugar coat this. So instead of the natural mollusk color, Speedy Geoduck’s flesh is all green in school colors. Okay, so that’s gross just a little bit but when you look a the animal itself, the cards are already stacked against him. Speedy Geoduck is just that but with human arms and legs. So a geoduck has a shell and then the body extends out from it not unlike a snail. How does it stack as a mascot? Well, the Speedy Geoduck is a somewhat decent representation of the sea faring fella. As this article explains, it’s not a duck at all but some ginormous form of mollusk. So at some point, the school decided that they should be called the Geoducks. Hey, I guess that’s what you get for being a middle aged liberal arts college. I’ve looked around all that I can for other tid bits of history for Evergreen but I just couldn’t find it. Hey, when it comes to water based mascots, you gotta reach for whatever is available. Its non-traditional roots led to the formation of a couple of athletics teams but unfortunately they have no football program. So for this week, I will talk about the only mollusk mascot and one of the only water based mascots in college, Evergreen State’s Speedy Geoduck.Įvergreen State is a liberal arts college established in 1967. Sure, pro sports has plenty of Sharks, Dolphins, and Devil Rays but at the college ranks, there’s hardly a mollusk. I might as well do a mascot that’s water based.” You know what? There’s hardly a college mascot out there that is water based. So yesterday I was hanging out at the pool and was stuck trying to figure out just who should I profile for this week’s Mascot Monday.
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