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re: University mascots being Demons/Devils
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:00 pm to medium rare
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:00 pm to medium rare
Let’s also note. Many of these institutions were named during a time when people believed in witches, and also wanted words and “devilish” music banned.
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Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:01 pm to medium rare
The best are the Demon Deacons.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:06 pm to medium rare
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Is there a good explanation for this?
Absolutely. Back then mascots were just mascots. No one ever thought that they were anything except the schools mascots. Also every single person regardless of race got along. I had some very good friends that were black. Back then people were viewed as a person. Not a race
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:08 pm to The Baker
Ok but doesn't that just beg the question further?
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:09 pm to Miketheseventh
You were alive at the time Universities were creating their mascots?
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:32 pm to Kafka
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secret tiger fights & wagered on them
My grandpappy bet on those fights in the tunnels under campus.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:41 pm to medium rare
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There are so many of these. How in a time where the country was way more Christian than it is now, did they decide to make the mascot of colleges the "Blue Devils, or Demons, or Sun Devils etc?" Just seems weird bc I can't see a group of Christian people saying "yea let's make our mascot the demons." Is there a good explanation for this?
lol... Good Lord, some of y'all need hobbies.
<----- ASU grad.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:41 pm to dkreller
quote:Stories of those fights are what interested Walt Disney in Louisiana. He intended to make tiger fights a major attraction at his new theme park.quote:My grandpappy bet on those fights in the tunnels under campus.
secret tiger fights & wagered on them
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:42 pm to medium rare
I'd love to see the University of Mississippi White Devils when woke makes them change from the rebels.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:42 pm to medium rare
Duke is a Methodist school Wake Forrest is also religious affiliated also
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:48 pm to HoboDickCheese
Before being called Duke* it was called Trinity and the teams were often called just "The Methodists". Before that it was Brown, then Union, and then Normal... of all monikers.
* tobbakky and sparktricity money
* tobbakky and sparktricity money
Posted on 3/20/24 at 7:52 pm to medium rare
People understood it was a cartoon character at sporting events.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:00 pm to tigeroarz1
quote:Apparently back then nobody feared God.
Typically a mascot was chosen that the opposition would fear. BTW, believe it or not demons and devils were a thing before Jesus.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:05 pm to The Baker
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Duke is United Methodist and they are the Blue Devils.
Wake Forrest is Baptist and they are the Demon Deacons.
In the case of Wake Forest, many decades ago (I think sometime around WW I or WW II), they beat Duke (then Trinity) in basketball and the local press described them as having played like demons in their win. Apparently, in spite of or because of their religious affiliation, they seem to have playfully evolved that into Demon Deacons.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:10 pm to medium rare
Arizona State is named after a weather phenomenon called a dust devil.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:11 pm to medium rare
Vic The Demon tyfys
Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:33 pm to Obtuse1
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Normal
Denotes a teacher's college.Northwestern (the one in Natchitoches) used to be Louisiana State Normal College.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 9:00 pm to medium rare
My high school mascot was the Green Devils.
There was always some church complaining about it.
If you are an adult and don't realize its just a character. Just like how LSU Tigers are not really tigers.. They are not really devils.
What about Miami Hurricanes.. Hurricanes have killed people.. OMG.. Lets take it too literal and be offended or upset over it. come on man
There was always some church complaining about it.
If you are an adult and don't realize its just a character. Just like how LSU Tigers are not really tigers.. They are not really devils.
What about Miami Hurricanes.. Hurricanes have killed people.. OMG.. Lets take it too literal and be offended or upset over it. come on man
Posted on 3/20/24 at 9:06 pm to epbart
Most mascot/nicknames derived from some innocuous story like that. Generally they stuck because society had more important things to do than search for reasons to feign “outrage”…even the leftists!
Arizona St initially were the Owls. Then they became the Bulldogs. Then, in the 40’s, the track coach allegedly saw a dust devil arise and decided “Sun Devils” might be a good nickname. Evidently the students liked it a pushed for the change. It literally has nothing to do with religion.
LSU’s Tiger nickname came from a group of Louisiana soldiers in the Civil War nicknamed the “Tigers”.
Crimson Tide grew out of a sportswriter describing the Alabama football team as an playing like a “Crimson Tide” because their white uniforms were all stained with red clay during a game
Arizona St initially were the Owls. Then they became the Bulldogs. Then, in the 40’s, the track coach allegedly saw a dust devil arise and decided “Sun Devils” might be a good nickname. Evidently the students liked it a pushed for the change. It literally has nothing to do with religion.
LSU’s Tiger nickname came from a group of Louisiana soldiers in the Civil War nicknamed the “Tigers”.
Crimson Tide grew out of a sportswriter describing the Alabama football team as an playing like a “Crimson Tide” because their white uniforms were all stained with red clay during a game
Posted on 3/20/24 at 9:09 pm to tigeroarz1
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