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Dryden said:
Stanford may go by the nickname "Cardinal," but as far as this thread goes Stanford's mascot is actually a tree. So no, the Buckeyes aren't the only one. (Just saw this picture on the ESPN Bottom-10 and remembered this thread).
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Lets just put it out there and say plants do NOT make good mascots...

Ugh...Brutus is a stupid looking mascot and so is Stanfords excuse for one.

A common misconception is that OSU is named after a nut... I hate that because they arent. They are nicked after the state tree. Which makes Brutus insulting to me...a pointless, poisonous nut with no value.

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It is rare for an athletic team to be named after a tree; but the Buckeye name is so ingrained in the history and lore of the state and the university that few stop to consider how unusual it is. It is native, tenacious, attractive and unique -- traits that Ohioans and Ohio State alumni are proud to be associated with.
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I would almost consider OSU's nickname to not be a nickname... They have no emblems on any of their uniforms (save the leafs) and their colors represent nothing about a Buckeye. I would say the Buckeyes is really just something they slapped on the end of their school because they had to.
 
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A friend asked me a trivia question that I couldn't get: name the four D-IA teams whose nicknames don't end in S, a color is not part of the name, and an animal is not part of the name. Here's what I got:

Don't end in S:
Alabama Crimson Tide
Illinois Illini
Marshall Thundering Herd
Navy Midshipmen
North Carolina State Wolfpack
North Texas Mean Green
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Stanford Cardinal
Syracuse Orangemen
Tulane Green Wave
Tulsa Golden Shower (or Golden Hurricane or something)
Nevada or Nevada State Wolfpack

First, maybe I should figure out if I have those all right. But that's boring. Let's go on..

Doesn't have a color. Take out Alabama, North Texas, Syracuse, Tulane, and Tulsa. Doesn't have an animal. Take out Marshall, NC St, Stanford, and Nevada or Nevada State. I have only three teams left: Illinois, Notre Dame, and Navy. Who am I missing?

By the way, the guy who asked me the question said he got them all, but when I asked him to tell me the fourth team, he couldn't remember it.
 
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I would say the Buckeyes is really just something they slapped on the end of their school because they had to.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
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I would say it is because Ohio is popularly known as The Buckeye State.

Then again I don't have a conspiratorial bone in my body... :wink2:
 
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Im not being conspiratory... Just look at the university, the uniforms, the logos and such. There is really no ephasis on the Buckeye besides the nut which is obviously NOT the idea behind the nickname. So it just seems to me the name was placed at a time when it wasnt really that important (before marketing and targeted groups of people).

Too much into tradition to try to make money off a cool sounding nickname now.
 
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Zurp said:
A friend asked me a trivia question that I couldn't get: name the four D-IA teams whose nicknames don't end in S, a color is not part of the name, and an animal is not part of the name. Here's what I got:

Don't end in S:
Alabama Crimson Tide
Illinois Illini
Marshall Thundering Herd
Navy Midshipmen
North Carolina State Wolfpack
North Texas Mean Green
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Stanford Cardinal
Syracuse Orangemen
Tulane Green Wave
Tulsa Golden Shower (or Golden Hurricane or something)
Nevada or Nevada State Wolfpack

First, maybe I should figure out if I have those all right. But that's boring. Let's go on..

Doesn't have a color. Take out Alabama, North Texas, Syracuse, Tulane, and Tulsa. Doesn't have an animal. Take out Marshall, NC St, Stanford, and Nevada or Nevada State. I have only three teams left: Illinois, Notre Dame, and Navy. Who am I missing?

By the way, the guy who asked me the question said he got them all, but when I asked him to tell me the fourth team, he couldn't remember it.
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There are only three. He may have tried to count "Thundering Herd" since an actual animal isn't in the name, but that's a stretch.
 
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BuckeyePride85 said:
Shouldnt the ACC contain 2 Mythalogical creatures? "Demon Deacon" and "Blue Devil". Both are demons, or maybe I just off base here, lol.
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Naw, the ACC doesn't need 2 mythological creatures, and could probably have 5 humans and no mythological creatures. The Blue Devils are named after a French military unit. I think my Deacs are humans, because they get abreviated as Deacs or Deacons, not as the WFU Demons.

http://www.wfu.edu/academics/history/HST_WFU/deacon.htm
 
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thackattack said:
The fourth is Stanford. As shown in posts a bit above this, the Cardinal is the tree, not the bird, so it is not an animal.

P.S. Good work on the lists Brutus, very entertaining!
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Thanks! Actually, the Cardinal isn't a tree, it's a color. :wink:

From WikiPedia:

"The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "the Cardinal," referring to the vivid red color (not the common song bird as with the University of Louisville), and the school has no official mascot."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree

BTW, they were one of the first schools to go PC and ditch a Native American name. They were the Indians until 1972, and had a member of an Indian tribe perform as the mascot. It's all in the link. :wink:


Seriously, that school is the most confusing one to figure out. An "unofficial" mascot that's a tree and a member of the band, a team name that's simply a color, I mean....WTF? That makes "Zips" seem easy. :tongue2:
 
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BuckeyePride85 said:
VTech defines a "Hokie" as a bird evolved from a turkey. They even used to be called the "gobblers"
VTech Hokies Definition
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Wow! I've lived in VA for two years and no one doen here has ever been able to tell me anything more than. "It's a Turkey, thing." And now I found out it was some guy making crap up and everyone else covering their butts for listening to him.

Gotta love the South!!
 
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<dl> <dd></dd>
<dd>Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi!
</dd><dd>Tech, Tech, VPI
</dd><dd>Sol-a-rex, Sol-a-rah
</dd><dd>Poly Tech Vir-gin-ia
</dd><dd>Ray rah VPI
</dd><dd>Team! Team! Team!</dd>
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That might be the dumbest chant/cheer I've ever seen. That's 10 times more retarded than Rock-Chalk-Jayhawk and Rammer-Jammer-Yellow Hammer.
<dd></dd> </dl>
 
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