WHAT THE HELL?

OKLAHOMA

TULSA

RANDOM PRE-GAME THOUGHTS

 

A Hurricane In Tulsa?

I still don't understand why a land-locked school in the middle of Oklahoma, 600 miles from the nearest body of salt water, would choose Golden Hurricanes as their mascot.  So I looked it up:



What the hell?

The origination of The University of Tulsa nickname - Golden Hurricane - came in 1922. A new football coach, Howard Acher, came to town and inherited a slew of nicknames dating back to 1895.  Past Tulsa teams were referred to as Kendallites, Presbyterians, Tigers, Orange and Black, and Tulsans. In the fall of 1922, the team nickname was "Yellow Jackets," which was apparently due to the fact that the team was wearing new black and yellow uniforms instead of the traditional orange and black.   The team opened the season and it was apparent that Tulsa was going to have a great year, and trying to seize some publicity for his team, Acher wanted to find a new nickname quickly.  After a remark was made in practice one day about "roaring through opponents," and because of their new jersey colors, he thought of Golden Tornadoes. However, he quickly found out that the name had been taken by Georgia Tech a few years earlier. From the tornado, he evolved meteorologically to the hurricane. A few days before the team left for a game against Texas A&M, Acher asked the squad to vote on the name, and thus "Golden Hurricane" was born. Oh, well that makes perfect sense.

Commode Cleaner In a Cape?

I truly hope that the University of Tulsa never changes their mascot...because as long as whatever this is supposed to be is standing on the sidelines, those stupid horse-pigs we trot out there won't be the worst mascots in the country.  Seriously, what the hell is that?  It looks like a cross between a turnip and a toilet-bowl cleaner.  What is their mascot budget $19.99?  I like University of Tulsa, so I hate calling them out, but unless you are trying to increase the spirit of the custodial crew, this walking tidy-bowl brush needs to go.






Just the opinion of one mildly interested guy

The Overweight Armchair Sooner

Buddy Putty