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re: Should South Carolina change their "gamecock" name to something
Posted on 8/14/13 at 9:12 am to tylerdurden24
Posted on 8/14/13 at 9:12 am to tylerdurden24
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chicken as a mascot without the allusion to cockfighting?
There was the allusion back when they were named that because the newspapers said some revolutionary war captain and his men fought 'like fighting gamecocks'.
Also, gamecocks will fight til death, which I find particularly admirable.... arse.
Still... GOATS.
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Posted on 8/14/13 at 9:25 am to atlgamecockman
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Also, gamecocks will fight til death, which I find particularly admirable.... arse.
Nothing gets me as inspired as two starved, territorial male animals boxed into a small space and made to fight until dead
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Still... GOATS.
If you really want me to address it, I think we had the goat as a mascot in the early 1900s for one or two games because a farmer or frat brother brought it to a game and - since we didn't have a symbol to represent the university's atheltic interests at that point - tt was just a convenient association. The goat's last game (the one we lost) saw the goat barbecued later that night. So... If you want to harp on a century old animal that happened to show up to a game or two, then I guess it's within your right?
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