re: Alabama: Tell Me About the Elephants

I've got skills, what can I say.

Two stories, dating around the same time. First, was a newspaper columnists that referred to an early 1910s Alabama team as being "large as a herd of elephants". It seemed to stick. The second is a moving company that's logo was an elephant. Said moving company provided the luggage for Alabama's 1930s treks to the Rose Bowl. Alabama is said to have adopted the logo.

But an actual mascot wasn't allowed on the sidelines until the 1979 Sugar Bowl. Though a live minature elephant was used for Mobile games in the 1950s.

So lets get this straight,

Alabama is the Crimson Tide, yell Roll Tide, have an Elephant connection and are referred to as the Capstone.

Auburn is the Auburn Tigers, yell War Eagle and are referred to as the Plainsmen.

Ole Miss is the Rebels, yell hotty toddy, have a bear for a mascot

Others? TAMU please speak up...

Mascots and nicknames aren't the same thing.

:nty:

They mourn their dead.

An actual, fully grown, elephant on the sidelines as a mascot would be pretty awesome.

Male elephants are trunksuckers.

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African and Asian males will engage in same-sex bonding and mounting. Such encounters are often associated with affectionate interactions, such as kissing, trunk intertwining, and placing trunks in each other's mouths. Male elephants, who often live apart from the general herd, often form "companionships", consisting of an older individual and one or sometimes two younger, attendant males with sexual behavior being an important part of the social dynamic. Unlike heterosexual relations, which are always of a fleeting nature, the relationships between males may last for years. The encounters are analogous to heterosexual bouts, one male often extending his trunk along the other's back and pushing forward with his tusks to signify his intention to mount. Same-sex relations are common and frequent in both sexes, with Asiatic elephants in captivity devoting roughly 45% of sexual encounters to same-sex activity

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Interesting. An Aggie with homosexual knowledge.

I always assumed it's because elephants have tusks and the University is in Tuscaloosa. Makes sense that would be the reason, but perhaps it's just a coincidence.