Tribe with Feathers After All?
All productive work at the Firm on the Move (TM) instantly ground to a halt today when the VLW reported the finalists in the William & Mary mascot search. The W&M website has pictures of the finalists. I'd post them, but I'm not sure about the trademark implications and I think that I'm still bound by the honor code.
Here are the finalists and our thoughts:
- The Griffin. What's that, a nod to our Quidditch team? No D&D mascots, thanks. Nerds.
- King and Queen. Wow, that's creative. We'd definitely be the first school in the Old Dominion to use Monarchs as a mascot. On the other hand, the transgender queen is a nice touch.
- The Phoenix. Crap.
- The Pug. Dogcrap.
- The Wren. I guess this one has potential. We'd get our Tribe with Feathers after all, that late unpleasantness with the NCAA notwitshtanding. And the Wren actually has a connection to the school. (Ahem, Griffin.) It looks like we have a winner by default--although it really is a shame that not everyone can lose.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Nice non-sequitor, nerd cracks notwithstanding :D
Completely lame NCAA position translates into a unique accomplishment: actually beating out the Washington Wizards for a worse mascot search.
Do any other schools have co-mascots, as the King and Queen (entirely un-American, when you think about it) would be?
Terrible, absolutely terrible. None of those are good. You should be ashamed.