NYT March Madness Graphic...with faux Michigan mascot...
Spot the UofM mascot? If we can't choose to not have one...we might as well choose our own.
For some reason they don't like this one...
Every other school depicted is official and easily recognizable. Not sure if I miss that. Thought this was worth a post. March Madness ... soon.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
I stared at and scanned that picture for a good 5 minutes until I saw him chilling in boat with the Cavalier.
I like the 2nd 'mascot' much more.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
March 14th, 2018 at 12:50 AM ^
You're talking about a boggart
Don't boggart that joint my friend. Took me a minute to find it. Then I remembered RR telling the world we had wings.
This is a very good idea.
But why stop at "scared"? For instance, we could:
- Have our QB wear the flayed skin of a Spartan.
- Burn a Scarlett Knight at the stake.
- Kill an actual Nittany Lion a week before the game and leave it's carcass to rot on the Penn State sideline.
- Show a video of a group of children capturing, beating, and killing a Buckeye mascot, then cracking open it's skull to eat and bathe in the Chcolate and Peanut Butter gore.
like for you as a child?
March 14th, 2018 at 12:37 AM ^
I kind of like it .
March 14th, 2018 at 12:39 AM ^
I was still working in Ann Arbor in the late 80s, and seeing Willie milling around the stadium while I had season tickets back in the ''88 and '89. I was not impressed.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:40 AM ^
March 14th, 2018 at 12:51 AM ^
The yellow (maize) and the three stripes gives it away, that's a wolverine.
March 14th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
That's Xavier, they're the Musketeers, close to the Cavaliers. I suppose a Musketeer could be cavalier, but not every cavalier person is a Musketeer.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:50 AM ^
We don't need a mascot.
But if we did, I don't understand why this isn't just the automatic option. Even DB could have swung this deal.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:53 AM ^
I'd vote for an animal-x-men hybrid, where it's the animal but with Wolverine the mutant's claws. Claws could be maize. If we're gonna get a mascot let's get real extra with it.
March 14th, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
That has to be a Rob Liefeld drawing. Ridiculous neck muscles combined with huge, bulging abdomen, and if you zoom out you'd realize the body would be insanely out of proportion.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:13 PM ^
Jim Lee. Liefeld's drawings are way worse.
March 14th, 2018 at 12:45 AM ^
even cartoon sparty looks like a rapist
March 14th, 2018 at 12:57 AM ^
Guess it's too hard to draw Beilein with a sub.
Willy looks like he's wearing Uggs.
Laughing out loud in the Office, thanks.
I'm glad I was in the Navy when this monstrosity walked the field. Missed the whole episode. That thing was terrible!
March 14th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
It's not our mascot. It's one that State put out on their field to mock Michgian.
Note the number "97", as if to mock us being forever stuck in 1997 the way Yankees fans used to wear blue and red "1918" caps to mock Red Sox fans last World Series win (at the time).
March 14th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
The weird thing is that sparty spent money for this
Cookie Monster on acid
I recognized it within 2 seconds. Beat that.
kinda badass relative to all the other ones. Just kinda kickin' it in the boat, but looks like he could just up and kill everybody at the drop of a hat.
I'll allow it.
I just overlooked it because it didn't look as terrorizing as i'd imagine the wolverine to look. However, the placement and the eyeballs on the gentleman from VA with the cavalier attitude could not be better done. I am imagining these two will be the ones to settle the whole damn shouting match and if he's becomes too damn insouciant, one swing of that right claw will do the trick.
March 14th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^
Try out "sonoluminescence" from the comments in the Steven Hawking thread. Can learn somethin' new every day on this blog.
Just me? Ok, I’m gonna quit drinking and go to bed.....
At first I thought it was Purdue Pete without his head on, but he's up in the corner/
Wichita State shocker. Probably the only one that looks better in this drawing than in real life.
Wichita State's team name is the Shockers. It refers to shocking -- harvesting -- wheat. Their mascot is anthropomorphic wheat. As you may know, "the shocker" is a hand sign simulating a rather graphic sex act. Wichita State fans have adopted this symbol to the point that it's on the cover of SI or any ESPN broadcast of a WSU game. This is an earnest congratulations to Wichita State fans for making a sex gesture so commonplace nobody bats an eye.
March 14th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
doesn't he own the Raiders?
March 14th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
The Purdue Pete one looks a lot less creepy than the real life one
March 14th, 2018 at 10:05 AM ^
March 14th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^