Hope everyone's recovered from that 'thing that happened on Sunday' that didn't resemble a Football Game. Usually, after the first pounding, thoughts turn to Basketball (How many days until 'Midnight Madness'?), or other things.
One of the other things happened to me on Saturday Night.
Away from being the Mid-Day Host on 96.9 KISS FM, our 'Hippie Station' says Chris Cross, being Webmaster for the wlxg.com site and lead guru at the company, I have worked for Host Communications here in Lexington. I do the scoreboard segments on the radio networks of Florida State and Oklahoma State Football and Basketball.
As you can tell, there's probably some down time during our 6 hour Football broadcasts. One of my co-workers asked me to see if there was a team with a certain nickname and where they were.
I fired up Google and did a search, coming across THIS LINK http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/. It has a comprehensive list of team nicknames, including schools that use the name and, occasionally a link to the school's site.
Yup, I found the 'Banana Slugs' (University of Cal-Santa Cruz), Black Flies (College of the Atlantic), The Blue Hose (Presbyterian College). We giggled a bit about the funny names. Then I scrolled down, to my horror and yelled out. "We Have A Winner!"
Did you know that The Rhode Island School of Design has 2 teams? Probably Club teams like the UK Hockey team. RISD plays Basketball and Ice Hockey. They have a nickname for each team as well as cheerleaders and fans.
The Basketball team is called 'The Balls"... The Hockey Team is called "The Nads"!!!
Here's a quote ripped off of a site called collegeprowler.com about RISD... (Here's the link to the page http://www.collegeprowler.com/guide.asp/1427401187/index.html)
And is there any athletics scene at all?“While serious athletics are pretty much out of the question at RISD, students definitely have fun with what they’ve got. Imagine during parents’ weekend, half the campus drunk and yelling obscenities at a team of completely bewildered ice-hockey players while a giant penis in a cape leads cheers from the sidelines. Often, the Jockstraps (cheerleading team) will rouse the RISD crowd into heckling some players so badly that fights ensue. Another rallying move is when Scrotie tries to ram the goalposts tip-first. (Some images really are worth 1,000 words.) Once in a while, there will be a scandal during which Scrotie has been kidnapped by an unnamed group. The ransom demands that all Nads players skate around the rink after the game in their underwear in order to retrieve their precious mascot.”Find out if RISD truly has something for you, straight from the students’ mouths.
Here's a link to the 'Campus Life Section of the School's official website. See 'athletics' section. http://www.risd.edu/orientation_campus_life.cfm
IS THIS school COOL with itself or what!
Upon further examination of the RISD site on Google, I found that they have a daily web newspaper, called the Daily Jolt... They even have fun on that site too! If you don't believe me, take a look at these picture pages. (NOT FOR THE KIDDIES!!!) http://risd.dailyjolt.com/pictures/album.html?album_id=354 The preceeding section is of a game that RISD had against Clark U. You'll see several pictures of thier mascot, along with comments from either students or people like me that happened on the site.
I'll also post some links that I think are cute, related to the Nads below... Go! Nads!
http://www.deadspin.com/sports/top/your-alltime-best-mascot-winner-176616.php Deadspin's take on it.
http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7254 Maxim's story about the 10 Worst Coaches, along with commentary, near the bottom of the page, about the worst mascots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_School_of_Design Wikipedia link anyone?
Have fun with it... Remember, this is NOT FOR THE KIDDIES!!!!
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