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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: TallTitan34 on December 01, 2011, 07:00:23 PM
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In honor of the picture below, where were you when you found out that we had been renamed the Marquette Gold? Just like everyone remembers where they were when they found out about September 11th or Kennedy being shot, everyone remembers where they were that awful day the name Gold was set upon us.
MarqPTM, robmufan, Jimbo and myself were all at Miller Park for a Cubs/Brewers game when we got the call about what happened. Roberto Novoa, LaTroy Hawkins, and the Cubs bullpen went on to blow the game for the third night in a row at a time when they needed wins to win the Central.
Where were you?
(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w31/southfew/1322752476.jpg)
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That picture is so unbelievably awesome I don't even care that those 3 have the same diploma I do.
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TUUUUURNBOW!
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I was on the phone with Fr. Wild's office complaining about the horrible Gold nickname about 5 seconds after he announced it. While Fr. Wild was extolling the virtues of the Gold I was talking to a woman in his office telling her it was the most ridiculous nickname I had ever heard. She suggested I listen to the rest of the press conference to hear more about why the Gold was selected and I told her there was no need as there was nothing he could say that would ever make it palatable. Before I hung up I told her that I was sure I would not be the only one calling her that day or the coming days. She laughed and said she hoped I was wrong. We all know how that turned out...
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DiUglio:
Bas-turd.
http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=sportslaw
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In honor of the picture below, where were you when you found out that we had been renamed the Marquette Gold? Just like everyone remembers where they were when they found out about September 11th or Kennedy being shot, everyone remembers where they were that awful day the name Gold was set upon us.
TallTitan34, you really liken “Marquette Gold” to the events of September 11, 2001, or of November 22, 1963?
Even in jest, please. …
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I don't believe I commented on the magnatude of each event. Merely that people remember when they found out about each.
What would you have used as examples of days that everyone remembers?
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TallTitan34, you really liken “Marquette Gold” to the events of September 11, 2001, or of November 22, 1963?
Even in jest, please. …
Agreed. Renaming the Warriors to the Gold had a much greater impact on my life than anything that's ever happened in New York or Texas.
I was on I94 commuting up from Chicago to a client site in Milwaukee listening to Bob & Brian on the radio. I thought they were just making jokes... and then it was real. It was like reverse War of the Worlds radio broadcast.
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I vote we use lime green for hyperbole from now on on Scoop.
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Wherever I was I was pissed as hell and mightily embarassed.
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Driving on 94E just before the HWY45 ramp. I was in the left lane...and almost veered left to head to Fondy b/c I was so discombobulated.
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Are there people that still question that it was the brainchild of our former coach? I certainly hope not. All his idea...then he went on the radio to defend Wild without mentioning it was his idea all along.
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(too lazy to look it up)
Could we go to Warriors and use the current MU logo?
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I still don't think Gold would have been that bad. I certainly like it better than Golden Eagles. I think everyone had such a negative reaction because we were hoping we might go back to Warriors, and then Gold came out of left-field. We basically don't have a nickname right now since Golden Eagles is barely used anywhere. I'd rather abandon the whole thing and go with a color than stick with this passive non-acceptance of Golden Eagles.
I more vividly remember being a student when DiUlio made the announcement in front of the Union that we were changing to Golden Eagles, and everyone started sarcastically chanting "We Are" clap, clap, "BC" clap, clap.
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(too lazy to look it up)
Could we go to Warriors and use the current MU logo?
Sure we could, but we won't. The administration argued that we could never disassociate the name from the old imagery. To the contrary, using the name with new imagery and creating a new connection would be the BEST way to disassociate the name from the old imagery.
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I don't know where I was when I heard the news, but I guess it isn't such a big deal to me... but the people in the picture will NEVER FORGET where they were.
Has the "gold" man ever come forward?
I don't think the NCAA will just let us go back to Warriors without penalty (no NCAA tourni games, etc) since the name is "historically" linked to the indian mascot, etc.... unless we get permission of the local indians, and they won't give it. That really sucks for us, as it would be nice to be the Warriors again.
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Internet cafe in Melbourne, Australia. Speechless.
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I got a questionare from MU about mascot changes and suggested keeping Warriors and changing logo to a Viking, A Visigoth or some such. I noted that nobody had a problem with "the Fighting Irish" and it was just a few PC wimps and a couple of anti-establishment indians that complained. I reminded whomever that Mascots were a POSITIVE image for a university and not derogatory.
THE GOLD is the worst nickname I ever heard and entirely void of any imagination. I am in awe of the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs!
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We now have the Syracuse Orange... and St. Johns Red Storm... maybe we should have taken Gold before all the colors are taken except for some obscure HGTV color :o
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One of these days I'm going to make t-shirts that say Marquette Gold and include "Bricky" the mascot.
http://wiki.muscoop.com/lib/exe/detail.php/nickname/bricky.jpg?id=nickname%3Alogo_archive
edit: like this
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?number=598507908
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Sure we could, but we won't. The administration argued that we could never disassociate the name from the old imagery. To the contrary, using the name with new imagery and creating a new connection would be the BEST way to disassociate the name from the old imagery.
+ infinity
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Sure we could, but we won't. The administration argued that we could never disassociate the name from the old imagery. To the contrary, using the name with new imagery and creating a new connection would be the BEST way to disassociate the name from the old imagery.
Exactly. This is what Ole' Miss did with the Rebel Mascot. They did it right though I wish Admiral Akbar would have won their mascot contest.
(http://therealmcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ole-miss-rebels.jpg)
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On the frontage road off the beltline in Madison. I almost hit a tree. I was looking at my calendar wondering "is this April Fools Day?"
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I was in my apartment at MU's Les Aspin Center residence in Washington, DC. I was eagerly awaiting the phone call from friends in Milwaukee, and discussions in the week leading up to it led me to believe we had the votes to restore Warriors.
Witnesses heard this one-sided phone conversation.
The what?
It's Golden Eagles?
Just the Gold?
Like the color?
Just the color. The color Gold.
What the ****?
After hanging up the phone, I walked into the central hallway in the apartment complex and let loose a torrent of obscenity so profane even I cannot recalll what I said, though I remember the phrase "fracking Christ" passing my lips at least once. Problem was the administrator of the program, Fr. O'Brien was also in the hallway, one floor beneath me. That was a little awkward.
It was the last night of the semester before everyone went home for the summer, so there was a farewell party that night with plenty of beer and plenty of tequila (It was also Drinko de Mayo). I wore my 2003 Final Four shirt, with the old chicken logo and text "Marquette Golden Eagles." I put masking tape over the chicken, and over the "En Eagles" and proceeded to drown my sorrows in a wave of alcohol therapy.
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This is where Dwyane Wade was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrEl_r8xEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrEl_r8xEE)
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In OD my freshman year. Right after it happened I popped my head out the door and everyone was looking at each other in the hallway wondering what just happened. I then started a facebook group (it was brand new then) called "What the **** is the Gold?" which grew to over 150 members in a few hours. One of the group members' mother was on the MU board who picked the name.
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One of the group members' mother was on the MU board who picked the name.
So, it wasn't Crean?
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So, it wasn't Crean?
Just because there was a board and a consensus doesn't mean that the consensus wasn't dictated to them :)
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I was in my apartment at MU's Les Aspin Center residence in Washington, DC. I was eagerly awaiting the phone call from friends in Milwaukee, and discussions in the week leading up to it led me to believe we had the votes to restore Warriors.
Witnesses heard this one-sided phone conversation.
The what?
It's Golden Eagles?
Just the Gold?
Like the color?
Just the color. The color Gold.
What the ****?
After hanging up the phone, I walked into the central hallway in the apartment complex and let loose a torrent of obscenity so profane even I cannot recalll what I said, though I remember the phrase "fracking Christ" passing my lips at least once. Problem was the administrator of the program, Fr. O'Brien was also in the hallway, one floor beneath me. That was a little awkward.
It was the last night of the semester before everyone went home for the summer, so there was a farewell party that night with plenty of beer and plenty of tequila (It was also Drinko de Mayo). I wore my 2003 Final Four shirt, with the old chicken logo and text "Marquette Golden Eagles." I put masking tape over the chicken, and over the "En Eagles" and proceeded to drown my sorrows in a wave of alcohol therapy.
Les Aspin + Gold Fiasco = Great Finals week.
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Les Aspin + Gold Fiasco = Great Finals week.
Ah, the Gold Fiasco. Deceptively strong drink.
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This is where Dwyane Wade was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrEl_r8xEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrEl_r8xEE)
Shaq - "The Gold?"
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So, it wasn't Crean?
The entire crock of crap didn't float into the board room out of thin air. It was sold to them by our gold skinned coach. It's a fact.
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The entire crock of crap didn't float into the board room out of thin air. It was sold to them by our gold skinned coach. It's a fact.
Details, plz.
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North Hills country club parking lot on the way to the Brewer game.
Cept I was in High School Senior so I was skipping school that day.
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I was in the AMU wondering why I wore gold pants with a gold shirt
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Agreed. Renaming the Warriors to the Gold had a much greater impact on my life than anything that's ever happened in New York or Texas.
I was on I94 commuting up from Chicago to a client site in Milwaukee listening to Bob & Brian on the radio. I thought they were just making jokes... and then it was real. It was like reverse War of the Worlds radio broadcast.
I know it seems wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963, but what you and TallTitan34 have written here are embarrassingly stupid.
And even on that count, your cute, lighthearted comments are way more stupid than TallTitan34’s.
Some topics are off limits from even brilliant humor, and yours, my friend, comes nowhere close to being brilliant.
“… anything that’s ever happened in New York or Texas.”
You must be a million laughs at car wrecks and funerals.
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Lighten up, Francis.
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Seriously though, what events would you use as examples of something everyone remembers finding out about for the first time?
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Walked into the office of my restaurant only to see gold words from tomato boxes, orange boxes, and any gold related items my chef could plaster all over the walls. Sad, sad day.
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I bought one of those Periodic Table "Gold" t shirts.
Just brutal. MU needs PR help big, time, still.
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Lighten up, Francis.
So tower912 is another of those MU grads who thinks it wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963.
So cool. So laid back. Hey, nothin’ bothers you, huh, tower912?
“Lighten up, Francis.” Right?
Hey, tower912, and Skatastrophy and TallTitan34, may I share with you the name of a person I know well who could name for you the 77 people she knew who died September 11, 2001. She can also give you the names of 52 men or women who lost a spouse in the attack and at least 116 children who lost a parent.
Still seeing the humor in September 11, 2001?
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At a minimum, please no logo wear with that stupid chicken. Please.
I was going to lunch when I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about it. You can just imagine the rant he had.
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So tower912 is another of those MU grads who thinks it wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963.
So cool. So laid back. Hey, nothin’ bothers you, huh, tower912?
“Lighten up, Francis.” Right?
Hey, tower912, and Skatastrophy and TallTitan34, may I share with you the name of a person I know well who could name for you the 77 people she knew who died September 11, 2001. She can also give you the names of 52 men or women who lost a spouse in the attack and at least 116 children who lost a parent.
Still seeing the humor in September 11, 2001?
Get over yourself, you horse's ass. This is a light hearted thread and you've decided to be the "serious" one. Kindly refrain from posting in the thread if it upsets you.
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Seriously though, what events would you use as examples of something everyone remembers finding out about for the first time?
Those are appropriate examples for what you stated above.
What boggles my mind is that anybody actually remembers where they were when they found out their college changed it's freaking mascot. It's such a trivial, meaningless part of a person's life. How they bungled it is worthy of derision, but really it's not that big a deal.
Comparing those two tragic and hugely important events to something so trivial and stupid is what's causing the problem.
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So tower912 is another of those MU grads who thinks it wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963.
So cool. So laid back. Hey, nothin’ bothers you, huh, tower912?
“Lighten up, Francis.” Right?
Hey, tower912, and Skatastrophy and TallTitan34, may I share with you the name of a person I know well who could name for you the 77 people she knew who died September 11, 2001. She can also give you the names of 52 men or women who lost a spouse in the attack and at least 116 children who lost a parent.
Still seeing the humor in September 11, 2001?
Lighten up, Francis.
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So tower912 is another of those MU grads who thinks it wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963.
So cool. So laid back. Hey, nothin’ bothers you, huh, tower912?
“Lighten up, Francis.” Right?
Hey, tower912, and Skatastrophy and TallTitan34, may I share with you the name of a person I know well who could name for you the 77 people she knew who died September 11, 2001. She can also give you the names of 52 men or women who lost a spouse in the attack and at least 116 children who lost a parent.
Still seeing the humor in September 11, 2001?
I think it's safe to say tower has a better grasp than you the dangers that were faced on 9/11. Seriously, a parallel was made using hyperbole that Marquette picking "Gold" was a WTF moment in our history.
No one is saying what happened that day was humorous. No one is making a joke about 9/11. They are simply saying that there are days when everyone can remember where they were at the time X happened. I remember where I was when 9/11 happened (on campus).
I also remember where I was when Dwyane Wade had a triple-double to get us back to the Final Four, I remember where I was when Gaines hit the three at the BC, and yes, when Marquette became the "Gold".
All the OP was saying is that there are days and events people have a tendency to remember, and for Marquette, this is one of them. Not making light of anything, not being dismissive of what happened on those days, but drawing a parallel of how human memory works.
So as tower essentially said, and what PRN more succinctly said, get over yourself.
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Exactly brew...I remember where I was when I heard that the Packers traded a first round pick for Brett Favre and thinking what a dumb idea it was. (Sitting in my car on Mayfair Avenue waiting at the Watertown Plank Road light.) Yeah it's trivial, but that's how the mind works.
And I have no idea where I was when I heard about the Gold announcement.
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Get over yourself, you horse's ass. This is a light hearted thread and you've decided to be the "serious" one. Kindly refrain from posting in the thread if it upsets you.
PuertoRicanNightmare is yet another MU grad here who is able to be “lighthearted” (yes, it is one word) about September 11, 2001.
Other than changing the team name to “Marquette Gold,” please tell us what other events you, PuertoRicanNightmare, would put on a par with the deaths of 2,996 men, women and children.
I am not being “the ‘serious’ one.” But I do find it really disturbing that anyone would liken “Marquette Gold” to the events of September 11, 2001, or November 22, 1963.
This is no less absurd and foolish than those who liken anyone to Hitler or so stupidly and embarrassingly misuse or misapply “Nazi” or “socialist.”
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I got a questionare from MU about mascot changes and suggested keeping Warriors and changing logo to a Viking, A Visigoth or some such.
+1000000000000000
I got a questionnaire about the new nickname years ago and suggested a couple of ideas that... ahem... were not adopted. They were:
Flames -- This should be obvious for any school that has St. Joan of Arc Chapel as a centerpiece. Guess what we would do to a cheerleader at halftime!!!!!!!
Inquisition -- Why not name ourselves after one of the "great" moments in Jesuit history? The Marquette Inquisition had a ring to it.
Alas, the Administration said no to these. Probably not PC enough
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I am not being “the ‘serious’ one.” But I do find it really disturbing that anyone would liken “Marquette Gold” to the events of September 11, 2001, or November 22, 1963.
No one is likening Gold to the events that took place on either of those dates. They were simply used to indicate how human memory works. We have a tendency to remember significant things. Those are two common ones that are mentioned nationally. This is one that's mentioned as it relates to Marquette grads and fans.
Give it a rest.
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PuertoRicanNightmare is yet another MU grad here who is able to be “lighthearted” (yes, it is one word) about September 11, 2001.
Other than changing the team name to “Marquette Gold,” please tell us what other events you, PuertoRicanNightmare, would put on a par with the deaths of 2,996 men, women and children.
I am not being “the ‘serious’ one.” But I do find it really disturbing that anyone would liken “Marquette Gold” to the events of September 11, 2001, or November 22, 1963.
This is no less absurd and foolish than those who liken anyone to Hitler or so stupidly and embarrassingly misuse or misapply “Nazi” or “socialist.”
Thank God we have people like you around to stop us from remembering where we were when the nickname was changed so that we can continue to mourn the victims of 9/11. Holy cripes.
Where you even alive in 1963? And why haven't you brought up Pearl Harbor? The Lincoln Assassination? McKinley? The attempted assassination of T. Roosevelt in Milwaukee?
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Time for a thread lock. ::)
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I think it's safe to say tower has a better grasp than you the dangers that were faced on 9/11. Seriously, a parallel was made using hyperbole that Marquette picking "Gold" was a WTF moment in our history.
I can't believe I am going to perpetuate this stupid thread/argument but why would you say this?
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It's a firefighter thing. I had met some of the FDNY members who perished in the towers at various conventions/classes/conferences. I wasn't anywhere close to tight with any of them, but we'd sat through some of the same boring crap and laughed at the same inappropriate jokes. I had never told him, nor anyone on this board about that, and not to put words in his mouth, but I am guessing that he extrapolated that and was defending a brother firefighter.
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I can't believe I am going to perpetuate this stupid thread/argument but why would you say this?
It's a firefighter thing. I had met some of the FDNY members who perished in the towers at various conventions/classes/conferences. I wasn't anywhere close to tight with any of them, but we'd sat through some of the same boring crap and laughed at the same inappropriate jokes. I had never told him, nor anyone on this board about that, and not to put words in his mouth, but I am guessing that he extrapolated that and was defending a brother firefighter.
Yup. Don't know any of tower's stories related to this, but I know what he does for a living, and I have a small idea of the stuff he's been into and through. I'm pretty sure that 9/11 hits close to home for anyone in this profession, and I find it virtually impossible to believe that anything he said in this thread was intended to disrespect the victims of 9/11.
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So tower912 is another of those MU grads who thinks it wacky and crazy to be dismissive of the events of September 11, 2001, and November 22, 1963.
So cool. So laid back. Hey, nothin’ bothers you, huh, tower912?
“Lighten up, Francis.” Right?
Hey, tower912, and Skatastrophy and TallTitan34, may I share with you the name of a person I know well who could name for you the 77 people she knew who died September 11, 2001. She can also give you the names of 52 men or women who lost a spouse in the attack and at least 116 children who lost a parent.
Still seeing the humor in September 11, 2001?
Lighten up, Francis.
You're an idiot if you think those three posters are seeing any humor in 9/11. It's merely a comparison of a significant event that will always register in one's memory.
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(too lazy to look it up)
Could we go to Warriors and use the current MU logo?
Damn. You just blew my mind. The answer is so obvious. Thanks for bringing it up. I don't know why no one thought of that before.