13 spotted on Colgate Campus...

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Uh oh. Top-secret photos confirm that 13 has been visiting campus recently:

http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/images/gen/2006/8/24/Mascot%20004.JPG

What I didn't know is that he's fresh from the set of "Who Wants to be a Superhero"... and heck, he needs to get away from that computer and get some sun!

[Marcus Garvey]

Uh oh. Top-secret photos confirm that 13 has been visiting campus recently:

http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/images/gen/2006/8/24/Mascot%20004.JPG

What I didn't know is that he's fresh from the set of "Who Wants to be a Superhero"... and heck, he needs to get away from that computer and get some sun!

I'd have attributed the pale skin tone to the crappy Upstate NY weather!

[OL FU]

Uh oh. Top-secret photos confirm that 13 has been visiting campus recently:

http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/images/gen/2006/8/24/Mascot%20004.JPG

What I didn't know is that he's fresh from the set of "Who Wants to be a Superhero"... and heck, he needs to get away from that computer and get some sun!

I guess the smile comes from meditation and vegetables:eyebrow:

[Pard4Life]

He looks good for his age.. Biddle might want him to suit up.. imagine trying to get around that guy on the line!

[Go...gate]

Please don't tell me that is the new Colgate mascot.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Please don't tell me that is the new Colgate mascot.

:D :D :D

Yes it is, and just in time for my "Fans of I-AA piece" too...

[LBPop]

Uh oh. Top-secret photos confirm that 13 has been visiting campus recently:

http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/images/gen/2006/8/24/Mascot%20004.JPG



Didn't that guy play in a 60's British Invasion band?

[Pard4Life]

Didn't that guy play in a 60's British Invasion band?

Moreover, who is the guy with the towel...

[Pard4Life]

Please don't tell me that is the new Colgate mascot.

xlolx Pretty awful huh? I made a statement on the Raider board too..

[Pard4Life]

What is with the #13 in Colgate lore?

It is quite interesting that the mascot shares the same number as our venerable poster... they could have chosen #1 or seomthing.. but 13? Hm....

[McNeese75]

Didn't that guy play in a 60's British Invasion band?


:nod:

http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/Images/band/paul_now.jpg

http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/Images2/1ppr_flag.gif

:D

[buckp]

:nod:

http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/Images/band/paul_now.jpg

http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/Images2/1ppr_flag.gif

:D

I think I still have one of their albums....:o

[Go...gate]

Maybe Mark Lindsay of PR&R would agree to do a concert dressed in the new Raider costume! In the meantime, Colgate's new mascot will surely incite passion akin to that when the Edsel was introduced by Ford.

Bring back the Maroon Blob!!!!!

[colgate13]

What is with the #13 in Colgate lore?

It is quite interesting that the mascot shares the same number as our venerable poster... they could have chosen #1 or seomthing.. but 13? Hm....

13 is Colgate's lucky number. Friday the 13th's are "Colgate Day".

Link (http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=497&pgID=1200)

The skinny:



In 1817, 13 men - six clergy and seven laymen - met in the frontier settlement of Hamilton (http://www.partnersatwork.org/comprehensive_plan/historical_background.htm) with "13 dollars, 13 prayers, and 13 articles." (To this day, members of the Colgate community consider the number 13 a good omen.) In that meeting, the men founded the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York, the cornerstone in the foundation of what would become Colgate University.


Hence, Colgate and 13 are forever linked. That's why I chose my name!

[colgate13]

And yes, the Mascot is horrible - but it could be worse. It could be "MEACKIE" - that MEAC conference mascot!

[*****]

And yes, the Mascot is horrible - but it could be worse. It could be "MEACKIE" - that MEAC conference mascot!Uh oh, here we go.

[ngineer]

And yes, the Mascot is horrible - but it could be worse. It could be "MEACKIE" - that MEAC conference mascot!

Gosh, 13--you'd think they'd come up with some 'thing' or some 'one' that had a 'Raider' motif. This guy looks like Wink Martindale....:smiley_wi

[colgate13]

Can't offend anyone - so that puts the handcuffs on design right away. Frankly, I don't know how any school today can make a mascot based on a person in the campus climate that there is.

[DC 'gater]

And yes, the Mascot is horrible - but it could be worse. It could be "MEACKIE" - that MEAC conference mascot!


13 - We only need to look into our own past to find something worse. Are you too young to remember M.A. Rooney aka the raisin, aka the maroon blob?

That was our worst attempt at a mascot. It made MEACKIE look like
Chief Osceola .

[MARooney]

I remember M.A. Rooney (as you might have guessed from my name).

With the red eyes and gray skin tone, I think the new Raider looks like a Drunk, Sun-deprived, Strung-out, Pirate Zombie.

[kouka]

Reminds me of the New England Patriots mascot

[Go...gate]

I remember M.A. Rooney (as you might have guessed from my name).

With the red eyes and gray skin tone, I think the new Raider looks like a Drunk, Sun-deprived, Strung-out, Pirate Zombie.

Indeed - a refugee from a Spring Party Weekend back in the all-male days!!!

[Go...gate]

Gosh, 13--you'd think they'd come up with some 'thing' or some 'one' that had a 'Raider' motif. This guy looks like Wink Martindale....:smiley_wi

LOL!!!! xlolx xlolx xlolx xlolx

[TheValleyRaider]

Looks like the illegitimate stepchild of Sam the Minuteman.

[colgate13]

I am too young to know of a MA Rooney... please elaborate!!!! :)

[colgate13]

Reminds me of the New England Patriots mascot

Welcome Colgate fan!!!!!:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: