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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score. ~Vince Lombardi
Updates
Untrue rumor. There is no creditable evidence at this time that the Payton Manning family has purchased a home in Omaha or that they plan to live in Omaha.
Mikaela Shffrin has returned to the World Cup women's ski competition.This weekend after nine weeks of rehabilitation in Eagle-Vail, Colorado, Shiffrin won the slalom in Switzerland this weekend. When asked was she back? Shiffrin touched her shoulder and said, "Yah, it's me, I'm here, I'm back." Not bad, nine weeks after a knee injury.
.Colorado High School Mascots
Last week some readers questioned East High School's mascot. When the new building was built (1925) the sculpture by the entrance lacked a face. The sculptor looked at multiple models until he found a young girl who he said looked like an angel. The name and the mascot stuck, and they are still called the East High Angels.
In later years, the other Denver High Schools that followed adopted geographically appropriate mascots. West High-Cowboys, North High-Vickings, South High-Rebels.
In the discussion concerning unusual Mascots, we are not making fun of them. We applaud individualism and unconventional mascots.
When Longmont High School was picking a mascot in the 1930s, the students voted for the Gorillas. The story goes that somehow when the results of the election were released by the faculty committee, the winner was the Trojans. Name changes are not unheard of. When my Trojans competed with Fort Morgan, we played against the Maroons, now known as the Mustangs.
The popular favorite is Brush High School-Beet Diggers. On the subject of digging, Clear Creek High (Idaho Springs) are the Gold Diggers, a name often used as slang with a different meaning. Going along with Beet Diggers, another mascot in the agricultural vein is the Rocky Ford-Meloneers.
Alamosa-Mean Moose (Plural Mice?), and Steamboat Springs-Sailors (an odd name for a landlocked mountain town) make one smile.
The Colorado State University Rams are in Fort Collins. The Fort Collins high school students hoping to emulate their college role-models took the name Lambkins. Supposedly little lambs not only eat ivy but grow up to be Rams.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was a graduate of Denver's East High School. (an Angel) He met Marion Morrison (John Wayne) at USC where they both played on the football team. The entire USC team was hired for football scenes in a John Ford movie. Both Wayne and Bond became friends with Ford and the three of them made many movies together.
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score. ~Vince Lombardi
Updates
Untrue rumor. There is no creditable evidence at this time that the Payton Manning family has purchased a home in Omaha or that they plan to live in Omaha.
Mikaela Shffrin has returned to the World Cup women's ski competition.This weekend after nine weeks of rehabilitation in Eagle-Vail, Colorado, Shiffrin won the slalom in Switzerland this weekend. When asked was she back? Shiffrin touched her shoulder and said, "Yah, it's me, I'm here, I'm back." Not bad, nine weeks after a knee injury.
.Colorado High School Mascots
Last week some readers questioned East High School's mascot. When the new building was built (1925) the sculpture by the entrance lacked a face. The sculptor looked at multiple models until he found a young girl who he said looked like an angel. The name and the mascot stuck, and they are still called the East High Angels.
In later years, the other Denver High Schools that followed adopted geographically appropriate mascots. West High-Cowboys, North High-Vickings, South High-Rebels.
In the discussion concerning unusual Mascots, we are not making fun of them. We applaud individualism and unconventional mascots.
When Longmont High School was picking a mascot in the 1930s, the students voted for the Gorillas. The story goes that somehow when the results of the election were released by the faculty committee, the winner was the Trojans. Name changes are not unheard of. When my Trojans competed with Fort Morgan, we played against the Maroons, now known as the Mustangs.
The popular favorite is Brush High School-Beet Diggers. On the subject of digging, Clear Creek High (Idaho Springs) are the Gold Diggers, a name often used as slang with a different meaning. Going along with Beet Diggers, another mascot in the agricultural vein is the Rocky Ford-Meloneers.
Alamosa-Mean Moose (Plural Mice?), and Steamboat Springs-Sailors (an odd name for a landlocked mountain town) make one smile.
The Colorado State University Rams are in Fort Collins. The Fort Collins high school students hoping to emulate their college role-models took the name Lambkins. Supposedly little lambs not only eat ivy but grow up to be Rams.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was a graduate of Denver's East High School. (an Angel) He met Marion Morrison (John Wayne) at USC where they both played on the football team. The entire USC team was hired for football scenes in a John Ford movie. Both Wayne and Bond became friends with Ford and the three of them made many movies together.
In about a month, on Saint Patrick's day, many movie channels will be showing The Quiet Man, John Ford/John Wayne's Irish classic. Not as Ireland was, but as it should have been. Watch for Father Peter Lonergan the fishing priest. Of course Maureen O'Hara stars as the Irish lass who makes Wayne's quiet retirement in Ireland ...eventful.
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