Wednesday, January 28, 2026

an off-duty mascot


Strapped into a Facilities van on campus: here's the Trojan Warrior who (with a human inside him) makes an appearance at the Galen Center for basketball games. I've never seen him at volleyball, for which I'm thankful: he's lumpy, ugly, and in some way I can't put my finger on, faintly embarrassing.  Aesthetically embarrassing, I guess.  And he's also more or less indistinguishable from a Rutgers Scarlet Knight - just with more "gold."  His slump is doubtless a response to the current underperforming women's basketball team, who keep being Not Quite Good Enough on offense - not at all good enough, for the most part.  It was a sad, surreal sight.

 

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