The Stanford mascot is now unmasked. When the Bobcat (Ohio University) mugged the Buckeye (Ohio State) the entire staff here at SAS became curious about what the heck is the story behind the goofy Stanford Tree? We thought the Buckeye mugging was bazaar, ha.
Is the Tree traveling to South Bend Saturday?
Is the Stanford Marching Band daring to show up as well?
We hope so.
As it turns out, the Bobcat had it in for the Buckeye all along. What a crazy story.
Sure, The Stanford band is a little weird; Notre Dame even suspended them in 1991 for a couple years and the Band was also disciplined 1997. All for some offbeat antics in South Bend which they willingly share with other schools over the years as well.
Also, remember the infamous end of game episode with the University of California in 1982, what a hoot.
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "The Cardinal," referring to the vivid red color (not the common song bird as at several other schools), and the University has never been able to come up with an official mascot which adequately conveys the fierceness and sporting prowess it had hoped to symbolize with that particular shade of sanguine. This fact creates a void not typically found at schools with less-abstract symbols for their sports teams, and into this unfulfilled void the Stanford Band has insistently thrust what is one of the United States' most bizarre and controversial college mascots. The tree regularly appears at the top of internet 'worst mascot' lists. You know they got to love it.
So....... Go IRISH Beat the Tree?
Or........Go IRISH Beat the Cardinal (actually a color)
How can you get serious about all this? Probably pretty easily since The Tree beat us last year and the Cardinal is ready to do it again this year.
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