I have never understood something about mascots. Well, to be honest, I've never really understood mascots in the first place. It's all well and good to name your team after something, but aren't some things far and away better than others?
I can forgive strange things, like Jazz, and Flyers. Those are strange, but they're still good words, and it's no crime to build a team around them. Besides, a lot of the best animals are taken. Even bad animals have been taken. Like Penguins, Frogs, Humpback Whales, and Ducks. Even Bruins. That's a sucky animal, isn't it? Though it's hard to come up with some sort of mascot for a team named Jazz, or Soul, these are at least on the fringes of 'acceptable' names.
I want to make a stand, though, against the Trojans. They lost. Not only did they lose, they lost shamefully, laid low by deceit and drunken revelry. Why name a team after them, and why, oh why, name a condom after them? The walls of Troy were breached, end of story.
The Titans? Good name, but they also lost out, and were locked up for the rest of eternity. The Mules? Let's not even go there.
And Lemmings. I'm serious, there's a college out there. And Nads. Where did you even come up with that?
You think I'm joking. Fine. http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/
