ISU Sucks (in) ISU’s Mascot
It’s still football season, although the Tigers are taking it light with ISU-light this week. That’s Illinois State, not Iowa State. Kickoff is at 1:00 p.m., I hope to be tailgating by 10:30. No word on food yet, although I do expect to have lunch of some variety. CJ’s wings would be a reasonable guess. If you’d like us to haul stuff for you, will happily do so as long as it’s at our house before early Saturday morning.
Our beloved Tigers are ranked #25 in the most recent polls, while ISU is ranked #14 in the subterranean division, or whatever the hell they’ve decided to call this collection of crap teams. With a good showing and some definite losses happening in the polls above us, Tigers should move up by beating up on a cupcake this weekend before moving up a little more by playing no one next weekend. That’s a literal no one, not the figurative no one we’re playing this week.
I know almost nothing about Illinois State, except that their mascot is a Redbird. I went to their website, their motto appears to be “Go You Redbirds”. Inspirational. This Redbird looks strikingly similar to the bird that’s stuck in Iowa State’s cyclone, so I assume that these two schools are bitter rivals. Matching initials, matching mascot, matching colors, bordering states, they either hate each other or have massive man-crushes. I choose hatred, as that’s what makes me most comfortable.
The stuck-part-of-the-Cyclones-logos did almost beat K-State last year, although that was before the invasion of the Power Towels. No way they could have played close with that grey squirrel chasing them with a towel all day.
Speaking of hatred, insert anti-ku diatribe here.