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#123385 02/21/04 05:15 PM
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Michigan State University Spartans
Ohio State Buckeyes


Sparkeyes and Buctans
- or -
Spuckeyes and Bartans
- or -
Sparkans and Bucteyes
- or -
Spucteyes and Barkans


#123386 02/21/04 06:50 PM
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Spuckeyes

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#123387 02/21/04 06:53 PM
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Since 1972, the athletic teams of Scottsdale (Arizona) Community College have been known as the Artichokes, a name selected by the student body as a protest against spending money on student athletics.

The Pomona-Pitzer (California) team name is the Sage Hens.

At Connecticut College, they are the Camels.

The University of California at Irvine's mascot is the Anteater.

And at the University of California at Santa Cruz, sports teams are known as the Banana Slugs.



#123388 02/22/04 02:09 AM
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bialumnal is a good way to describe what you are, but I'm more interested in how you behave sitting in the stands as you watch the 2 teams compete.

Since you have 2 degrees from one U and one from the other, it might be seen as judicious to root for the latter team in the 1st quarter, the former in the 2nd and 3rd, and then make yourself absent for the 4th, leaving the contest to be decided on its own merits without benefit of your unstinting support for either team.




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Grapho raises an interesting point. I think of myself as a Cougar (WSU alum) rather than a Husky (UW alum), probably because I did my undergraduate work at the prior. I suspect that one most commonly forms that sort of alumnal attachment to the college or university where one first matriculates.


#123390 02/22/04 06:59 AM
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Yep, Padre, you can hardly say that you have three degrees of freedom when it comes to university sports ...


#123391 02/22/04 02:30 PM
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Another suggestion:

Come to your senses and realize that paying any attention to football is a waste of effort and time. After all, it's a combination of the two worst elements of our western society: violence and meetings.


#123392 02/22/04 03:18 PM
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Jheem, j'accusative!

Now I *get it.


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paying any attention to football is a waste of effort and time. After all, it's a combination of the two worst elements of our western society: violence and meetings.

Hot dogs and beer?




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I also had a vague notion that alma mater refered to one's undergraduate institution. Anybody else?


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