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EA Sports is allowing fans to vote for the mascot who will appear on the cover of NCAA 2009 for the Wii, a dubious honor since if the Wii edition of NCAA is as much of an epilepsy simulator as the Madden franchise is, the game will shovel piles of suck in suckhell forever.

(If you haven't had the chance to play it, its bizarre controls force you to conduct Bernstein's exact hand gestures from guiding the New York Philharmonic through Mahler's Fifth. Our favorite move: the "Throw The Goddamn Thing Into the Ficus Plant" move. Never say we don't know how to throw the ball away when danger nears.)

We cast a vote for Albert, but noticed something previously unseen: SEC mascots are all remorseless killing machines or hammered redneck militiamen with guns. Remember: as a conference we've got the only mascot that's actually been on a killing spree. Toss out the genteel Commodore, and we've unveiled the iconic representation of all the Southeastern United States values: fangs, an unstoppable killing urge, little in the way of higher brain function, and a facility with firearms.

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I’ve been asked several time to vote for the MAC’s Toledo Rocketman seeing as how he is the worst one on there..

by ThreenOut on Mar 6, 2008 11:16 AM EST reply actions  

No WKU “Big Red” = no vote.

by Scalz1 on Mar 6, 2008 11:17 AM EST reply actions  

LSU missed out by not returning their half-bred excuse for a new Mike and acquiring the tiger from the San Francisco Zoo. If you’re gonna cheat on the species, cheat strong.

by Allahver Fist on Mar 6, 2008 11:20 AM EST reply actions  

Hey O-

Don’t you have to sign your chest as “Property of Mr. Lofton” or something after last night?

by ThreenOut on Mar 6, 2008 11:24 AM EST reply actions  

xbox 360 > Wii

by haybeav on Mar 6, 2008 11:27 AM EST reply actions  

Except Ole Miss. We don’t have a mascot.

by DuNing on Mar 6, 2008 11:27 AM EST reply actions  

I voted for Cocky, but only because I couldn’t write in a vote for Mic Guy.

http://img.impiri.us/usc/micguy08.jpg

by impirius on Mar 6, 2008 11:27 AM EST reply actions  

In case you’re too hung over today to figure it out, go to http://www.easports.com/ncaa09/ to vote.

I find it odd that EA feels it necessary to supplement income with a banner ad at the top of the page. I mean the site itself is basically just an ad to go buy the game.

by Pappy on Mar 6, 2008 11:28 AM EST reply actions  

I kind of like Madden on the Wii. It’s a lot easier to remember to do things like throwing a stiff-arm when you just sling your arm out instead of having to remember which stupid button to press this year (whether it be triangle, square, R16, L26, or X5 because you know they changed it from last year). Some of the movements could use work but I do consider it a net plus. What’s ironic is that the thing I have the hardest time remembering how to do with the remote is throwing the ball away.

by Dante on Mar 6, 2008 11:29 AM EST reply actions  

A Bernstein/New York Philharmonic comment is just awesome. I once played in an orchestra in which the conductor did a 360. Alas it did not end in the splits. My undergrad orchestra’s conductor once did a pretty cool head move to get the 6/4 across in Brahms’s #3. The Hochschule fur Music in Vienna would have been proud of him.

by Anonymous IV on Mar 6, 2008 11:30 AM EST reply actions  

Going to the site, school loyalty just barely won out over comedic value. I almost voted for the Duke Blue Devil just to see what would happen if EA had to release a FB game with Duke on the front, but loyalty to the university wins every time.

by Ground0EastLansing on Mar 6, 2008 11:37 AM EST reply actions  

and McFadden is the cover boy for the 360 version of NCAA 09

http://www.pastapadre.com/2419/ncaa-football-360-cover-athlete-announced

by Jerkwheat on Mar 6, 2008 11:38 AM EST reply actions  

7 – USC’s mic guy, mic guys in the past, etc, >>>> the two white Clemson students with dreadlocks who wear the oversized retro Tree Rollins jerseys to all Clemson home games.

Get a haircut…

by Coop on Mar 6, 2008 11:41 AM EST reply actions  

Peruna from SMU - killed the Fordham ram, has slept in every sorority, has had elevator privledges at hotels in Chicago and New York City, as well as other notable incidents such as when he tried to mount Texas Tech’s horse, Misty, sent the University of Texas Longhorn Bevo to the ground with a kick in the side, and defacated at midfield during a TCU – SMU game, the week that TCU unveiled the school’s brand new Field Turf.

Winner.

by Brian on Mar 6, 2008 11:41 AM EST reply actions  

One of MSU’s Bully’s got a military-style funeral procession in 1939 and is buried at the 50-yard line under the bench, so that has to count for something.

and Scalz1: Damn straight.

by jakldawg on Mar 6, 2008 12:04 PM EST reply actions  

NCAA ‘09 on the WIi’s go that wood: the Wii verison celebrates its cover athlete by letting you shake the Wiimote which virtual Run DMC shakes as a small wooden bat

by worstfan on Mar 6, 2008 12:06 PM EST reply actions  

I vote for “Nova” and “Spirit” – the eagles used for pregame flights around the stadium before games at Auburn… any mascot that is allowed to go free in a stadium filled with 86,000 people and not pluck out an eye, rampage in a crowd or bite someone is pretty cool

of course that may change next year when I wear my alligator meat shirt to the Florida game there

by Futbawl Fan on Mar 6, 2008 12:10 PM EST reply actions  

All of my favorites were missing, Georgia had Hairy Dawg instead of Uga, the USC trojan, Texas Tech’s masked rider. This poll is worthless.

by John on Mar 6, 2008 1:24 PM EST reply actions  

#6-Colonel Reb will never die.

by Dr. Cruz on Mar 6, 2008 2:38 PM EST reply actions  

13 – Coop – I think the girl who had the full-body tiger paint (during the GT@CU game, maybe?) makes up for those guys.

by impirius on Mar 6, 2008 3:43 PM EST reply actions  

There’s one high school out there that laughs at your notions of a “killing spree”. Click link in my name.

by Go Bombers on Mar 6, 2008 9:00 PM EST reply actions  

herbie husker is gonna win. why? because husker fans are second only to ron paul followers when it comes to flooding online polls.

what else can they do? they live in freakin’ nebraska. what else is there to do besides tipping cows?

by rudy (not the guy from notre dame) on Mar 7, 2008 3:13 AM EST reply actions  

When I was a student at Vandy, good old Mr. Commodore was described by the humor magazine as looking like “Popeye with Down’s syndrome.” It’s sad how true that is. But then one of the mascot guys got fired for appearing in costume in the same magazine, sitting on the can and perusing the latest copy of Playboy’s “Girls of the SEC” issue. I was so proud when that story made it on SportsCenter.

by hoss on Mar 8, 2008 11:20 AM EST reply actions  

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