#SaveJohnnyThunderbird!

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Just saw this on facebook and twitter "#SaveJohnnyThunderbird!"

"St. John's University Official Page is assessing whether or not its an appropriate mascot in regards to the new brand unveiled today, Johnny Thunderbird was voted on by the classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and is a true reflection of a very rare aspect of students making a decision in the university."

I think its a perfect assessment.
 
Johnny Thunderbird makes no sense. He's not marketable and noone outside of the university associates him with the school. The part about him being a true reflection of students making a decision is bogus too. The choices were all terrible.
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an accomplished and otherwise intelligent individual recently approached me about something they were working on and said "let's get this thing on social media and have it go viral so that the whole world will see it." Every time I hear some variation of this I cringe. But it is an example of how a little information is a dangerous thing. I imagine that some intelligent people sitting around in some important meeting talking about something in some very professional sounding manner came up with the genius idea of creating a "social media campaign" and a lot of really smart people starting throwing around buzzwords and acronyms that they were sure would make them sound really smart and informed and then there was the old guy that brought up "MySpace" while everyone smiled knowingly but didn't correct him because he outranked them...
Ultimately the Administrator Level 2 of the Redundancy Department, Department will make some banal choice that is totally uninspired but passed the only test that mattered to the people who have no stake other than protecting their own standing and that being that it offended the least amount of people that matter currently.
I think the red tuxedo guy from the original insanity, is less idiotic than the hero and bear. The bear almost makes me want to cry. The logicstician (yeah I made up a word here) that came up with that!
 
I remember wanting the bolt of lightning back then and still do.

If I didn't say Storm Hero would get us sued by DC Comics back then, I'll say it now.
 
Bring back the name Redmen with no Native American referneces. Then bring back the red tuxedo guy! You could even have a mrs red tuxedo guy in a red dress!!
 
I've been saying for years (apologies for repeating): a Big (red) Apple.

Of those under consideration, I'm for Thunderbird. Instead of having bobble-head doll nights, we could have Thunderbird wine nights, and hand out pints of Ernest & Julio's swill to fans. Maybe even get their heirs to build us a new arena.
 
Bring back the name Redmen with no Native American referneces. Have 3 guys in Red body suits (similar the "Blue man group") come out every home game a do basketball tampoline dunks. The can do the t-shirt cannon and run thru the arena throwing shirts. Our name is back, society is happy and so are the chants from the fans.
 
Bring back the name Redmen with no Native American referneces. Have 3 -4 guys in Red body suits (similar the "Blue man group") come out every home game a do basketball tampoline dunks. The can do the t-shirt cannon and run thru the arena throwing shirts. Our name is back, society is happy and so are the chants from the fans.
 
Bring back the name Redmen with no Native American referneces. Have 3 guys in Red body suits (similar the "Blue man group") come out every home game a do basketball tampoline dunks. The can do the t-shirt cannon and run thru the arena throwing shirts. Our name is back, society is happy and so are the chants from the fans.
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It'll never happen. The goofy-looking Indian stereotype that the university officially adopted back in the 1960s sealed the deal.
 
Enough with the "bring back Redmen" stuff. It's 2013 and everyone is hypersensitive...you can't have a name that is deemed as politically incorrect. Even though Redmen isn't even an insult but an identifying aspect of appearance in the same way Italians are called olive-skinned, it will somehow be seen as racist by liberals. Never going to happen.

I don't like the Thunderbird. Way too simple, zero creativity, and no one looks at him and says "oh St. John's". We need a human mascot IMO...look at Little Red at Nebraska...look at the Friar Boy at Providence. These are beloved and immediately identified. PC's mascot is so high quality that it looks like it can be used for a TV show. Ours looks like a costume rental for a party. Either name ours "Johnny" or "Red".
 
I remember wanting the bolt of lightning back then and still do.

If I didn't say Storm Hero would get us sued by DC Comics back then, I'll say it now.
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I'm with you on that, even if there a bit of "Gumby" to him : ). It was the best choice of all the options they gave us. I still don't know how St. Joe's never put up a stink over our "Thunderbird", its the twin of their Hawk lol.
 
Save the thunderbird. Do we really need another person on the unemployment line ?


I hate all those potential mascots other than thunderbird
 
Save the thunderbird. Do we really need another person on the unemployment line ?


I hate all those potential mascots other than thunderbird
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Those are old. Not now
 
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