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It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 21, 2023, 10:54 PM
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Now y'all see my pulse and know Im not beloved around here. I have many unpopular thoughts and opinions.
I say that to say what Im about to say is not pandering for TUs.
But as someone who grew up laughing at "Horned Frogs," the "Gamecock" is likely the worst mascot ever selected with that awful screeching cock-a-doodle-doo track they play down there. It's a helpless sound. The sound of something in need of rescue.
"Horned Frogs" is for sure bad. "Banana Slugs" is bad. "The Phoenix" is bad. "The Cardinal" is bad.
But to choose such a fitlhy, scrawny, unfearsome creature to be one's mascot is beyond understanding.
TYTIA.
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Clemson Icon [24753]
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 21, 2023, 10:56 PM
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Hokies is worse. A castrated Turkey?
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Recruit [97]
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Good point.
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Nov 21, 2023, 10:58 PM
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In my small world a hokie is what you used to vacuum the rug after a class party.
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A mascot so bad even tnets bans it.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:03 AM
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Orange Beast [6417]
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Re: Did You See The Hilltopper??? ---
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:01 PM
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Looks like poop covered in sirancha sauce.
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Recruit [97]
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Mine is not an exhaustive list.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:04 AM
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Hilltoppers sounds so scatological.
"So you climbed a hill and evacuated your bowels. Nice work. Go team."
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CU Medallion [19501]
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:06 PM
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Sorreh, The Banana Slug and Horned Frog are very cool! Way more creative than many other mascots. LOL
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Recruit [97]
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Banana Slug is a group of trustees having fun.
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:10 PM
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Horned Frogs is a highly Texas thing. But still a filthy critter. Used to catch them around the pumpjacks out in the Permian Basin.
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:19 PM
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I'm a die hard Clemson fan but I do respect history I'm not I repeat taking up for South Carolina I will die a Clemson Tiger with all my heart but
this post make me think about the history of South Carolina mascots and ive got to give credit to History so with that in mind post this ..The
nickname was a reference to the fighting tactics of General Thomas Sumter, the Revolutionary War hero known as the Fighting Gamecock.
With that said i have to give respect to the mascots history but as far as respecting the history of south carolina they have none a 1969 ACC
Championship and a 2010 sec least championship so with history in mind ...but as far as the south carolina gamecocks
are concerned they can kiss my a$$
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Tiger Spirit [9941]
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 22, 2023, 7:47 AM
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I agree about the fighting gamecocks. Where they went wrong is this out of shape, cross dressing cartoon character mascot. “Cocky” is someone’s bad idea
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Recruit [97]
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Right. Back when cackfighting was a legitimate thing.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:08 AM
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A sportier time.
Centuries later, it's just a spayed chicken with a sinus infection.
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Tiger Titan [46198]
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Whats wrong with Cardinal, as in Stanford Cardinal?***
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:39 PM
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Clemson Icon [26498]
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Wait until many of our fans see The Cardinal Band perform.
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Nov 22, 2023, 3:59 AM
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First time I saw them was in the 1987 Gator Bowl, which we won, and most of the crowd was in stitches watching the band's non-performance. I say non, because those people wore whatever they chose, kind of wobbled and scrambled across the field with nary a routine in mind. Hilarious! But, they could crank out some tunes. Actually, they were some fun people to hang with, as they fit with every trait of west coast space cadets, inluding the "Like, far out, Dude," "Whoa man, like duh!" LOL
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Recruit [97]
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Rice U's band was same.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:12 AM
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A gaggle of high IQ kids having fun usually at the other team's expense.
Legend has it that once when hosting aTm, they marched out and spelled "ATM" and the Aggie fans/brown shirts LOVED it.
Then they marched a pair of "E"'s out to bookend the "ATM" and the brown shirts whipped out their little pen knives and ran them off the field.
Brilliant.
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:49 PM
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Something we finally agree on.
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Recruit [97]
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UofSC has a very galvanizing effect on non-UofSCers.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:15 AM
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Usuck mascot call sounds like a turkey
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Nov 22, 2023, 2:14 AM
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being soxual assualted!
Its one of the funniest sounds heard in a fb game!
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I mean I wouldnt go that far
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:00 AM
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but it is a very unwholesome sound.
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 22, 2023, 2:27 AM
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Brutus the Buckeye should be lit on fire.
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Recruit [97]
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Or roasted on an open fire.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:01 AM
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Nat King Cole.
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Athletic Dir [1192]
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Im a 3rd generation Clems grad that like to see Coot go 0-12
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Nov 22, 2023, 3:24 AM
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And get a bowl invite so I can see them go 0-13. However I have to respectively have to disagree.
Non of you obviously never been around having to feed/raise to a real #### or never been to a real #### fight. Gamecocks are mean bad ### mean creatures.
They represent the intent of mascots as a tough & respected competitor of their domain. That also applies to a;
Crimson Tide - a deadly oxygen absorbing tide
Green Wave - a killed rough wave that can destroy beached and houses
Horn Frog - can live in the desert has powerful jaws and very territorial will fight snakes or May other species in aiding it domain
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Tiger Titan [49807]
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Re: Im a 3rd generation Clems grad that like to see Coot go 0-12
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Nov 22, 2023, 3:52 AM
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A Gamecock Only has to know your dominant and they will do nothing but run, pick them up by the tail feathers & turn them upside down until they behave.
You have to repeat this ever so often because they forget after a couple weeks(off-season).
I’ve dealt with them since I was kid on the farm.(helped my uncle as a kid & have my own farm now)
He was the Anderson county Jailer/WW2 vet many or most of his were former fighting Gamecocks he rescued from fighting rings along with metal spurs, red glasses, leather spikes etc.
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Recruit [97]
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My wife suppresses me thusly.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:22 AM
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Clemson Icon [26498]
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We always just called them the Chickens; in turn our nickname
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Nov 22, 2023, 4:05 AM
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was the Farmboys.
Never thought either way about the mascot, as we knew how it originated. Now, they use the abbreviated version without the "game," which I doubt would have happened back when I was at C.U,
Still call them The Chickens even jokingly in front of some of my Carolina friends here.
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Recruit [97]
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I like your indifference to them.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:29 AM
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Indifference is much better than hatred.
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Recruit [97]
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It is more precise.
Nov 22, 2023, 10:00 AM
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And my english professor always said more precise is better.
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Game Day Hero [4285]
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Just a stupid DIrtpecker!***
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Nov 22, 2023, 6:53 AM
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Feathered offal.
Nov 22, 2023, 10:07 AM
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Re: It's just the worst mascot ever.
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Nov 22, 2023, 8:56 AM
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Oregon State?
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Beavers are vicious when cornered.
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Nov 22, 2023, 9:03 AM
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And they've wreaked havoc on our docks on many occasions. Awful rodents.
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