With all due respect, do you WATCH college sports? And do any of these idiotic sports announcers who refer to the Auburn "War Eagles" do any homework?
Everyone acts as if Auburn is strange to have a team name and mascot, the Tigers, and a cheer, War Eagle - which is backed up with a real Eagle.
What about Georgia Tech, with the Yellowjackets and the Ramblin' Wreck, the real Model T Ford that drives in parades and onto the football field?
Alabama's the Crimson Tide, yet their mascot is an elephant?
Tennessee is the Volunteers, yet they bring out a Blue Tick Hound?
Harvard is both the Crimson and the Johns.
Yale is the Bulldogs and the Eli.
Stanford is the Cardinal and a tree?
Western Kentucky is the Hilltoppers, yet the mascot is a big red muppet?
University of Miami is the Hurricanes, yet the mascot is Sebastian the Ibis?
University of Virginia is the Cavaliers and the Wahoos?
Give me a little while to think and I could probably come up with another ten or twenty, which suggests that there are probably twenty or more schools that I know nothing about which have two mascots or names for their teams.
Why single out Auburn?
And by the way, I'm a Longhorn, as well as a Crimson/John.
You forgot ‘Plainsmen’ for Auburn and ‘Engineers’ for Georgia Tech. Virginia Tech has ‘Hokies’ and ‘Gobblers’, but they are trying to forget the latter. As for Virginia, the word on Vinegar Hill is that a ‘Wahoo’ is a fish that drinks a lot.
One minor correction here....Stanford is not THE Cardinal but simply Cardinal, the color, a shade of red. It's tough to have a color as a mascot, so they settled for a redwood tree, which do grow on the campus.
That's not as bad as the nearby Cal State Santa Cruz, which has a banana slug as mascot. It's really quite attractive with yellow and blue markings, but come on, it's still just a giant slug!
Well.. ok. Try to relax dude..... It’s just game-day smack. Auburn can have 14 mascots if they want. I don’t really care.
And since I am a loyal SEC fan I hope they beat Oregon too.
But I also think Auburn fans better gird themselves for some really bad news. NCAA sanctions hurt and they hurt for a LONG time.