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Hey, Syracuse dropped "Orangemen" and are now just the "Orange". La(meh).
Otto the orange has got to be simultaneously the worst and best mascot (though the Buckeye is the worst overall, no doubt -- for the Ohio School of Doing Stuff).
Word is, SU was looking to replace Otto... then ESPN used him in a SportsCenter piece (one of the first featuring mascots) where he flew in in a helicopter to deliver some important sports news update. Waved and hopped in the chopper and took off.
He's been untouchable (and regularly featured in ESPN and other mascot stuff) ever since.
EDIT -- not a "worst" mascot, but in the inexplicable category, LeMoyne College in Syracuse has the Dolphin. Sure. Jesuit school in upstate NY, hundreds of miles from open water. And University of Central Florida has a Yeti as a mascot, Eastern Maine University are the Cacti, and San Francisco State are the Federalists.
JP
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Last edited by Overpaid Slacker; 03-21-2007 at 02:25 PM..
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