Want To Rename Our Mascot? Yeah, Didn't Think So

by Dr. Charley West on Jun 30, 2009 5:09 PM EDT in Good Lord I Hate Your Program Comment 13 comments

OK, so some ridiculously hippie-leaning environmental group is sponsoring a contest to rename WVU's mascot, since West Virginia apparently doesn't have any mountains left. Funny, as I look out my window, all I can see is mountains. I also drove from Charleston to Morgantown today and had to take quite a few turns -- it sure didn't feel like Kansas. But I digress.

Whatever your views on mountaintop removal, I think we can all agree that this is the stupidest contest in a long, long time. I really would like to win the contest and the $100, then burn it ceremoniously before the first football game. Or shove it up the group's collective ass. Either would work.

OK, so here's my challenge: win this contest. Win it so that this money and "respect" doesn't go to someone who truly believes the Mountaineer should have a new name. And post your ideas in the comments. Bonus points for snarkiness...obviously.

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WTF!?!?!?

Seriously, that’s all I can come up with: WTF!!?!?!?!? And I mean that in the most pissed off way possible!

by WVUIE97 on Jun 30, 2009 7:31 PM EDT reply actions

Hmmm...

How about Slurry?

by drunkeneer on Jul 1, 2009 9:22 AM EDT reply actions

WV was nevr really a "mountain" state

Not trying to be a douche, but I traveled the state of WV as a graduate student at WVU with many Geology Prof and the State Geologist of WV. WV is mainly located in whats called the Allegheny Plateau. The majority of the state, where the coal is located, is a landscape of steep ridges and twisting drainages reduced by erosional fenders and gullies etched into the roots of the once-mighty Allegheny Plateau.
In laymens terms, WV was once very flat, then began eroding into what appears to be mountains. The only true mountains are to the far south and east known as the Alleghany Highlands and Blue Ridge MTNS.

Having said that, this is one dumb contest. I’m against MTR, but all I can say is WOW and WTF!!!

by Pabst on Jul 1, 2009 9:38 AM EDT reply actions

Thanks

For the geology lesson.

Regardless of your take on MTR, this is asinine. I wish these people would pack their granola and leave our state alone. If the citizens of West Virginia want to have a civilized debate on the issue where both sides present facts and arguments, fine. If hippie protesters with no jobs and nothing better to do with their time want to waste precious moments of my life with inevitably fruitless campaigns to change the WVU mascot, not fine. These folks need to get a life.

by Country Roads on Jul 1, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions

I would try a little bit harder.

by The 25314 on Jul 1, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Huh?

by Country Roads on Jul 2, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Geno Smith is an idiot.

by cabincreekzeke on Jul 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT reply actions

WTF

Thanks for the geology lesson, now go take your diamondcutter over your Allegheny Plateau soliloquy and do a Mohs hardness scale test on yourself.

by rumplestiltskin on Jul 1, 2009 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

BlackHoleSons?

Really, these people should be ejected from, and never peritted to enter our great state.

by amahaW! on Jul 1, 2009 7:53 PM EDT reply actions

I'll win the contest !!!!!

Mascot – Mountaineer (LETS GO)

Nickname of State – Mountain State (Almost Heaven)

WTF is Right !! Must be the Hillbilly weed from the Mountains or the Mountaineer Moonshine …

by BlueOldGold on Jul 1, 2009 10:33 PM EDT reply actions

What's Next?!?

Are they going to tell us that we can no longer call New Jersey the Garden State?
Are they going to ask us for proof that Scarlet Knights once roamed our marshlands looking for damsels in distress to save?
You can call yourselves whatever you want to call yourselves Mountaineers.

by BeatVisitor on Jul 2, 2009 4:46 PM EDT reply actions

You have a point there.

Last time I was in Jersey, I saw a lot of roads and buildings, but no gardens. And while we’re at it, someone get a memo to North Carolina that they are lacking in Tar Heels….

by Country Roads on Jul 6, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

I have some Simple Science

MY Simple Science when I look to My while on my computer I see Ohio and it has a lack of hilly terrain and I look to my left at beautiful West Virginia I see mountains thus making us the mountain state other than Colorado which has a claim to that nickname as well

by WVPiratesfan on Jul 16, 2009 8:51 PM EDT reply actions