Some guys on a mailing list that I’m on were talking about a game they were playing during breaks in the NCAA tournamnent last weekend, trying to come up with appropriate alternate mascots for colleges and universities. The idea is to pick mascot names that fit with the school name to make an amusing phrase.
My favorites from the list discussion were:
The Creighton Barrel (Singular, like the Harvard Crimson or Stanford Cardinal).
The Seton Hall Monitors (A Komodo dragon that checks late passes).
The Iona Spheres (A team with real balls).
I’m sure ScienceBlogs readers can come up with some good ones, though, so I thought I’d throw it out here and see what people come up with.