Week 3. All teams have had two weeks to make the proper adjustments. Gameplans are set. Players are ready. Fans are ready. Let’s go play some faux-football!
Game 1 ~ Colorado vs. Otterbein
Otterbein University is a liberal arts school of 2,800 students located in Westerville, Ohio, just northeast of Columbus. Otterbein was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
From the beginning, this school has always been a school of inclusion. They included women as faculty members and students. They accepted students of color before the Civil War. They welcomed Japanese-Americans interned during World War II. Basically, they included anyone our land-of-opportunity country had excluded.
Their teams are the Cardinals, and their official mascot is Cardy the Cardinal, who has a name so goofy and awkward that Otterbein chose to include him.
Game 2 ~ Sioux Falls vs. Ole Miss
The University of Sioux Falls is a Christian college of 1,500 students bringing service to their Lord in southeastern South Dakota. If you like traditions and you have a thing for the Renaissance and you’re lost in SE South Dakota, well you’re in luck, Sioux Falls has a tradition known as The USF Madrigal Dinners!
It’s been a tradition since 1963, when the Lord put the idea into the mind of Lois Harchanko, Music Professor Emeritus, proving once again that great traditions are grown from simple ideas.Their mascot is the Cougar, perhaps a Christian Cougar, but not a hot middle-aged Christian woman. Let’s keep it clean here.
Game 3 ~ Army vs. Lock Haven
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania is a state school with around 3,400 students nestled comfortably in central PA. Located on the Susquehanna River, Lock Haven has many excellent majors, many useful minors, but most importantly, it has a carillon!
A carillon is a series of bells in a tower that are sounded by hammers and played from a keyboard. There aren’t very many of them in the United States, but there’s certainly one in central PA. Did I mention the majors and minors?
Their teams are the Bald Eagles. I can only assume their mascot predates the recent drive to outwardly display one’s Americanism. Between the majors, the minors, the bald eagles, the carillon, and these, I’d say Lock Haven is doing just fine.
Game 4 ~ LSU vs. Missouri Western State
Missouri Western State University is a school of 5,400 students located in St. Joseph. Originally founded as St. Joseph Junior College in 1915, the school was officially granted university status in 2005. Why am I telling you this?
Because their mascot has been the Griffons all the way through! (Hear that, re-branders). Now, there’s two types of clever. There’s obvious clever ~ you see something and its cleverness is apparent. And there’s unwitting clever ~ you see something and had no idea how clever it was until someone pointed it out to you.
Now, take a look at the griffon again in the link. Draw a mental line around the exterior of the griffon. It’s the state of Missouri. Thank you, and good night!
Let the games begin!
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