My school's mascot is -
brace yourselves - the
Violet!
Yes, we're the fighting violets. Watch out you other Division III teams. If you make fun of us we'll sic our aspiring actors, directors and business people on you!
I think our mascot is meant to be the color, as opposed to the flower. But I selected plant on the poll cause our mascot used to be a person dressed up like a flower. Back in the day, we used to have a guy dress in a purple spandex body suit
*grimace* with a big flower head and he'd dance around at basketball games. Intimidating, no? A few years ago our university president decided to change our mascot because the dancing flower wasn't working. So, our unofficial mascot became the bobcat. How did they come up with the bobcat? It's named after our library's card catalogue system!!! Pretty desperate, huh? Our library is called Bobst Library. When our card catalogue system was computerized, it was called the
Bobst
Catalogue system. Bobcat, get it? So now there's a guy in a bobcat suit. All the gym vans have bobcats on it, there's bobcat merchandising, etc.
And that is the story of how the violets have a bobcat cheering at our games. (Pssst, we're still the violets.)
THE END.