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Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 9:14 PM
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Giant Gamecock statue won’t be ready for football season BY AVERY G. WILKS awilks@thestate.com LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY AUGUST 24, 2017 12:45 PM
A massive Gamecock statue the University of South Carolina plans to erect outside Williams-Brice Stadium won’t be installed in time for football season.
The 15- to 18-foot-tall bird is taking longer than expected to cast in bronze and assemble, the university says.
The school had hoped to place the $995,000 statue, paid for with private gifts, on Springs-Brooks Plaza before the Sept. 16 home opener against Kentucky.
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The school now expects to install it just after the season ends.
“The Gamecock sculpture is a complex piece, and we don’t want to sacrifice quality by rushing the project,” USC spokesman Jeff Stensland said. “This will be an impressive sculpture that fans will be able to enjoy for many years to come.”
The giant Gamecock’s future home is a brick planter on the plaza at the corner of Bluff Road and George Rogers Boulevard, near the statue of USC Heisman Trophy winner Rogers.
The statue is under construction by John Hair, who has sculpted college mascots at Furman, Cincinnati, Wake Forest and Purdue.
Avery G. Wilks: 803-771-8362, @averygwilks
RELATED STORIES FROM THE ISLAND PACKET VIDEO: USC honors George Rogers with statue VIDEO: USC honors George Rogers with statue A rendering of the 15- to 18-foot-tall bronze Gamecock statue USC will erect beside Williams-Brice Stadium. A rendering of the 15- to 18-foot-tall bronze Gamecock statue USC will erect beside Williams-Brice Stadium. Provided by the University of South Carolina.
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Orange Blooded [3750]
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 9:18 PM
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Did you notice in the story that this was supposed to be completed for the Kentucky game? I guess we can add this to the long list of Kentucky week screwups. LMAO
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 9:20 PM
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dont count your chickens before they hatch
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So sad..pc popo needs to get'm
Oct 4, 2017, 9:31 PM
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Why is the overly sensitive pc popo not all over USuCk for this blantant disregard for fowl life?! Shouldn't they have to change their name and mascot since it promotes animal abuse for the humanz entertainment?
For those who don't read sarcasm I could give two shillingz about their mascot....sucky is as sucky does is the dirtpeckerz way.
GO TIGERS!!!
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Re: So sad..pc popo needs to get'm
Oct 4, 2017, 9:33 PM
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They could probably borrow this one...
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Orange Blooded [2136]
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A Millie for a bronze chicken
Oct 4, 2017, 9:33 PM
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I mean come on now. I'm sure they can find a more cost effective way to make one. Especially with 3D printing tech
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 9:51 PM
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That's quite an erection...
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All-In [38429]
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 10:04 PM
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It looks like it's poooping a giant five-headed alien tapeworm .
Either that or tailfeathers , or whatever .
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Orange Blooded [2073]
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Bwahahaha... a million dollars?
Oct 4, 2017, 10:19 PM
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They make it so easy to make fun of them!
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The good news is...
Oct 4, 2017, 11:55 PM
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it will keep the rain off all the homeless vagrants over there.
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Orange Blooded [2488]
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That's the biggest #### I've ever seen***
Oct 4, 2017, 10:30 PM
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foghorn leghorn ain't no stinkin coot***
Oct 4, 2017, 10:33 PM
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"Ah say, ah say...I think ya on to sumthin there boy..." Yep***
Oct 5, 2017, 8:08 AM
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 4, 2017, 10:52 PM
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looks more like Godzilla or rodan.
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Re: My girlfriend thinks it's
Oct 4, 2017, 11:14 PM
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25 to 30 feet tall.
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It looks like a chicken getting ready to take a massive dump***
Oct 5, 2017, 7:56 AM
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####, it's upside down, spur up!***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:34 AM
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They couldn't figure out where to put the p e c k e r***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:35 AM
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue***
Oct 5, 2017, 10:00 AM
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 5, 2017, 10:13 AM
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It totally befuddles me that they don't realize how absolutely stupid a statue of a 50 foot chicken looks.
Building stuff doesn't make you a good football program. They have never grasped that. They are all about bling and not about substance.
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All-TigerNet [11478]
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They better hope this chicken doesn't quit halfway through
Oct 5, 2017, 10:17 AM
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the season next year after they erect a statue to honor it. We know how giant depictions of their idols has turned out in the past.
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CU Medallion [60234]
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at least PETA will have a new place to protest
Oct 5, 2017, 10:26 AM
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at "the statue that glorifies the brutal and inhumane bloodsport of cockfighting". And it does for sure. If that's not a rooster in a cockfighting pose, I've never seen one.
I can already visualize the headlines......Half-naked, fake blood-soaked women dressed as chickens. Good job Gamecocks.
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Chikin on a skewer, love it. Need some coals around the
Oct 5, 2017, 12:42 PM
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bottom, and set to go!
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Re: Coots going full out with Foghorn Leghorn statue
Oct 5, 2017, 1:12 PM
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I'm willing to cast something in bronze for them, won't charge nearly a million, and it'll stink up the place as bad as their football team does.
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