Resurrection.... For those who want the Bison...

[DANC]

"BUFFALO"!

Wrong! See the last point

Bison and buffalo are both large, horned animals in the Bovidae family, but there are several differences between them:

• Hump: Bison have a large hump on their shoulders, while buffalo do not.
  
  
  
• Head: Bison have larger heads than buffalo.
  
  
  
• Horns: Bison horns are shorter and sharper than buffalo horns, which are longer and more curved. Cape buffalo horns curl down and back up, similar to a handlebar mustache, while water buffalo horns are long and crescent-shaped.
  
  
  
• Coat: Bison have thick, shaggy coats that they shed in the spring and early summer. Buffalo have smoother coats.
  
  
  
• Habitat: Bison live in drier plains, while water buffalo live in wetlands, grasslands, forests, and savanna biomes in Asia.
  
  
  
• • Diet: Bison graze on dry plains, while water buffalo eat aquatic plants and may even graze with their heads underwater.
    
    
  • Species: There are two types of bison, the American bison and the European bison. There are two types of buffalo, the water buffalo and the Cape buffalo.

 

[jsenleo]

This logo has been used on t-shirts and sweatshirts for quite awhile. I wouldn't view it as any indication of a change coming.

I wasn't saying or implying that it does.... But thanks for keeping us all straight

 

[Hoosiers Rising]

BYOB. Bring Your Own Bison.

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

I hope you are better at that than basketball analysis.

I have a finger on the pulse of IU basketball. I know what’s going on there.
Quite frankly, I’m not even focused on the basketball program right now. I don’t worry about basketball season until it’s basketball season. We have a football season to follow.
Alabama was in the Final-4 of basketball last year. Good coaching. Exciting team. You think Alabama fans are thinking one iota about basketball right now?
I try to stick with what most normal college fans do: shift gears when it’s time to shift gears.
They can pump out all the reports they want to about sand pit workouts, gained muscle mass, vertical leaps that they want to. I’ll read that stuff when football season is done.
I’m not Cavanaugh. I don’t get into the preseason, pre-ejaculatory, Tamar Bates CircleJerk fan fests.

 

[Hoosier Clarion]

Wrong! See the last point

Bison and buffalo are both large, horned animals in the Bovidae family, but there are several differences between them:

• Hump: Bison have a large hump on their shoulders, while buffalo do not.
  
  
  
• Head: Bison have larger heads than buffalo.
  
  
  
• Horns: Bison horns are shorter and sharper than buffalo horns, which are longer and more curved. Cape buffalo horns curl down and back up, similar to a handlebar mustache, while water buffalo horns are long and crescent-shaped.
  
  
  
• Coat: Bison have thick, shaggy coats that they shed in the spring and early summer. Buffalo have smoother coats.
  
  
  
• Habitat: Bison live in drier plains, while water buffalo live in wetlands, grasslands, forests, and savanna biomes in Asia.
  
  
  
• • Diet: Bison graze on dry plains, while water buffalo eat aquatic plants and may even graze with their heads underwater.
    
    
  • Species: There are two types of bison, the American bison and the European bison. There are two types of buffalo, the water buffalo and the Cape buffalo.

Still BUFFALO!

 

[From the Balcony]

Big Cig

Rocky?
Cutter?
Fran G. Pana?
Indy?

 

[76-1]

Rocky?
Cutter?
Fran G. Pana?
Indy?

Here's a few more name ideas:

Calcite
Chert
Karst
Onyx
Oolitic
Stone
INDIANA
Foreman
"Mal" (after Coach Mallory)
Heart
Relentless
Squire (after Squire Boone)
Chisel
Rustic

I'm leaning towards Thunder (for the crowd response) and "Mal" for Coach Mallory,... I have a soft spot for Karst too...

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

If that's the case then it needs Hoosiers tattooed down both "arms" and maybe some fur dyed light blue! ... 😁

Nope!
It would get fat and ugly over night.

 

[Walt542]

Nah, that’s what the younger crowd relates to. Add an earring expander, and they’d be reduced to tears.

The ring in the nose indicates a domesticated animal. I want a wild bison despite the kids idea of what is attractive (yuck!).

 

[LifelongIU77]

I have a finger on the pulse of IU basketball. I know what’s going on there.
Quite frankly, I’m not even focused on the basketball program right now. I don’t worry about basketball season until it’s basketball season. We have a football season to follow.
Alabama was in the Final-4 of basketball last year. Good coaching. Exciting team. You think Alabama fans are thinking one iota about basketball right now?
I try to stick with what most normal college fans do: shift gears when it’s time to shift gears.
They can pump out all the reports they want to about sand pit workouts, gained muscle mass, vertical leaps that they want to. I’ll read that stuff when football season is done.
I’m not Cavanaugh. I don’t get into the preseason, pre-ejaculatory, Tamar Bates CircleJerk fan fests.

Yet,you still make comments on basketball,during football season. And dumb comments at that...smh

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Yet,you still make comments on basketball,during football season. And dumb comments at that...smh

I pop in there on rare occasion and any comments I do make are only bad simply because you don’t agree with them. You’re a Woody apologist. I am not. You are a basketball first guy, while other fans want to see balanced success. You are part of the Neanderthal Coalition in your thought process and that’s okay. There will always be that small subset of IU fans who don’t grasp the dramatically changed landscape of college sports.
I think Woody’s coaching and game management stinks. He recruits well and underachieves and I wouldn’t take him as an edge in any coaching matchup in this conference.

 

[76-1]

The standard for our mascot should be:. the creation of a nearly real Bison head and neck for our mascot using the CGI creation of BWW's Hank the winged Bison as the template to work from...

BWW's wings are still overrated salt block pop sickles but "Hank" is filling the place up anyway... Imagine what our development of something similar in a real mascot version could do to keep the fans fired up...

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

The standard for our mascot should be:. the creation of a nearly real Bison head and neck for our mascot using the CGI creation of BWW's Hank the winged Bison as the template to work from...

BWW's wings are still overrated salt block pop sickles but "Hank" is filling the place up anyway... Imagine what our development of something similar in a real mascot version could do to keep the fans fired up...

BW3’s……

“Hey, is there any chicken meat that comes with this bone?”

 

[kmathum]

The ring in the nose indicates a domesticated animal. I want a wild bison despite the kids idea of what is attractive (yuck!).

I want a big scary ominous looking beast. Romping and stomping down the field. Spitting snorting slobbering, craping on the visiting team's side line. That’s what I'm talkin about. And I love the name Big Cig.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

Run the field?
Nah, nothing to go wrong with that!

Many things will go wrong. But we will be entertained.

 

[zeke4ahs]

There’s tons of it out there.

I love the black, but when it comes gametime, I’m not wearing black!

 

[bang63]

.,, Imagine what our development of something similar in a real mascot version could do to keep the fans fired up...

Or better yet to keep you old guys awake.

 

[LifelongIU77]

I pop in there on rare occasion and any comments I do make are only bad simply because you don’t agree with them. You’re a Woody apologist. I am not. You are a basketball first guy, while other fans want to see balanced success. You are part of the Neanderthal Coalition in your thought process and that’s okay. There will always be that small subset of IU fans who don’t grasp the dramatically changed landscape of college sports.
I think Woody’s coaching and game management stinks. He recruits well and underachieves and I wouldn’t take him as an edge in any coaching matchup in this conference.

And that's why you should stick to your day job. It's not that you don't agree with me,it's that your assessment is wrong,and based on past rosters that were flawed whether it be because of injury,or early departure. Your critique is based on expectation,rather than logic.

 

[Hoosier Clarion]

As expounded on before the nose ring is a bad look. He should not be depicted as a domesticated bovine. He's 1 wild, mean, fast marauding sombitch.

 

[HoosierAlum07]

Buffa Lewie!

Buffaloui’s was created by an IU student
Just spell the name different due to copywrite issues!

 

[Hoosiers Rising]

The nose ring means he is hard to handle but he should not allow the ring to be placed if he was impossible to handle.

 

[82hoosier]

I could go with raccoons. I remember seeing raccoons in Bloomington.

 

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

B-town Bill, the Baddest Bison in the Big Ten

 

[hoosier roadtrips]

Many things will go wrong. But we will be entertained.

Maybe we could get entertained by having it charge at the opposing.team!

 

[abraxis]

B-town Bill, the Baddest Bison in the Big Ten

“He so bad he b-b-b-bad, b-b-b-bad, B-B-B-BAD to the bone!”

 

[frikkenfrakken]

Maybe we could get entertained by having it charge at the opposing.team!

I'm not rooting for that, but you know I'm not not rooting for it as well.

 

[jjwwss]

I'm not rooting for that, but you know I'm not not rooting for it as well.

Just start by bringing back the video of the bison running thru b town. Come on iu

 

[abraxis]

Just start by bringing back the video of the bison running thru b town. Come on iu

Homecoming would be the perfect time to recognize the new Bison Era of Cignetti football at IU. Put the stamp of approval on the bison mascot, starting with the stampeding herd on bovines on the end zone Jumbotron.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

I refuse to let this issue die. Here's an excellent oral history of when the Texas Longhorn live mascot briefly tried to kill the Georgia Bulldog live mascot. Bring us a BISON!

An oral history of when Bevo charged Uga at the Sugar Bowl

In what was supposed to be a made-for-TV moment, a catastrophe almost ensued as Bevo and Uga were set for a photo op.

www.espn.com

 

[Tammany Hall]

I refuse to let this issue die. Here's an excellent oral history of when the Texas Longhorn live mascot briefly tried to kill the Georgia Bulldog live mascot. Bring us a BISON!

An oral history of when Bevo charged Uga at the Sugar Bowl

In what was supposed to be a made-for-TV moment, a catastrophe almost ensued as Bevo and Uga were set for a photo op.

www.espn.com

Ha, classic college sports moment. I’d like to see Bevo turned into steaks after that.

Here is another unhinged one: Bears on a leash. If those Bears got upset those leashes were not going to stop a thing.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

Ha, classic college sports moment. I’d like to see Bevo turned into steaks after that.

Here is another unhinged one: Bears on a leash. If those Bears got upset those leashes were not going to stop a thing.

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There was a brief mention of that in the article I posted. I guess the Baylor bearcub slapped the taste out of the mouth of the Georgia bulldog once.

The people who keep Ralphie the Buffalo also point out that basically they aren't in control of Ralphie at all. They just give her treats to get her to do what they want. Ralphie runs faster than a human can, so they are basically being drug around the field in an orderly fashion when she runs.

SO MUCH FUN. Way more fun than the stupid tire race, or even the souped up golf cart gatling gun t-shirt cannon.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

Also....allegedly, SMU's horse actually killed a Fordham ram.

 

[From the Balcony]

There was a brief mention of that in the article I posted. I guess the Baylor bearcub slapped the taste out of the mouth of the Georgia bulldog once.

The people who keep Ralphie the Buffalo also point out that basically they aren't in control of Ralphie at all. They just give her treats to get her to do what they want. Ralphie runs faster than a human can, so they are basically being drug around the field in an orderly fashion when she runs.

SO MUCH FUN. Way more fun than the stupid tire race, or even the souped up golf cart gatling gun t-shirt cannon.

Hey!! I love the souped-up golf cart gatling gun t-shirt cannon!! A definite upgrade over watching a cheerleader blow a rotator cuff throwing a t-shirt all the way up to row 12.

Pretty sure the Ken Nunn's of the world have put an end to live bison running around Memorial Stadium. I'm not happy about that, either.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

Hey!! I love the souped-up golf cart gatling gun t-shirt cannon!! A definite upgrade over watching a cheerleader blow a rotator cuff throwing a t-shirt all the way up to row 12.

Pretty sure the Ken Nunn's of the world have put an end to live bison running around Memorial Stadium. I'm not happy about that, either.

I also love it. It's great. The t-shirt potato guns are also fun, especially when they over charge it and shoot the shirt out of the stadium. That's happened once or twice in the last few years.

Ralphie still runs. SMU still runs a Shetland pony out there. Strictly speaking, IU would face no more liability than those schools do. The handlers sign waivers. The animals are conditioned to the stadium atmosphere and aren't terribly dangerous. I mean, it's not like we are running the bulls in Pamplona.

 

[abraxis]

Hey!! I love the souped-up golf cart gatling gun t-shirt cannon!! A definite upgrade over watching a cheerleader blow a rotator cuff throwing a t-shirt all the way up to row 12.

Pretty sure the Ken Nunn's of the world have put an end to live bison running around Memorial Stadium. I'm not happy about that, either.

I was disappointed the cannon cart didn’t shoot the shirts any higher than what they did. I didn’t stand a chance in the $40 seats. (Insert Bruce Cockburn’s “If I Had A Rocket Launcher” - 1984)

 

[abraxis]

I also love it. It's great. The t-shirt potato guns are also fun, especially when they over charge it and shoot the shirt out of the stadium. That's happened once or twice in the last few years.

Ralphie still runs. SMU still runs a Shetland pony out there. Strictly speaking, IU would face no more liability than those schools do. The handlers sign waivers. The animals are conditioned to the stadium atmosphere and aren't terribly dangerous. I mean, it's not like we are running the bulls in Pamplona.

Maybe they could have Pogo, the clown, distract the bison when needed.

 

[Al Bino]

I also love it. It's great. The t-shirt potato guns are also fun, especially when they over charge it and shoot the shirt out of the stadium. That's happened once or twice in the last few years.

Ralphie still runs. SMU still runs a Shetland pony out there. Strictly speaking, IU would face no more liability than those schools do. The handlers sign waivers. The animals are conditioned to the stadium atmosphere and aren't terribly dangerous. I mean, it's not like we are running the bulls in Pamplona.

Not the bulls in Pamplona - A bison in Bloomington.

Possibly as much as 2200 pounds for an adult male - I would call that inherently dangerous!!

 

[IUINSB]

Not a fan of mascots, but if we must have one gotta let him/her go after Pete.

 

[jsenleo]

I was disappointed the cannon cart didn’t shoot the shirts any higher than what they did. I didn’t stand a chance in the $40 seats. (Insert Bruce Cockburn’s “If I Had A Rocket Launcher” - 1984)

I believe t-shirt cannon's went into disfavor soon after Maude Flanders was killed. A rolled up t-shirt that was shot out of a t-shirt cannon hit her in the head and knocked her off the back of the grandstand. It was a sad day in Springfield.

 

[abraxis]

I believe t-shirt cannon's went into disfavor soon after Maude Flanders was killed. A rolled up t-shirt that was shot out of a t-shirt cannon hit her in the head and knocked her off the back of the grandstand. It was a sad day in Springfield.

Ha! I had to Google Maude Flanders, thinking someone really did get killed with a cannon gun in Springfield, IL.