Midweek Michigan Mascot Musings.

Michigan sports are spoiled. We have  the best uniforms, the best fight song, the best record, and the best student sections. We do not have the best traditions. The banner jump is great, but we need more. Our band tends to play the same songs in the same formations. We need to spice up things. Given the events of the last game I think we should add a series of lightning rods around Michigan Stadium. We could name them after former coaches. That way we could forever have a "Rich-Rod" at Michigan.

So this leads to the great Michigan debate, the mascot. I know here at Michigan our mascot is winning, but we can still have some fun. Here are a few ideas.

A live Wolverine. I know we tried this in the past. I also know that wolverines have too much energy to be caged and are too ferocious to run through the stadium. What I do not know is where we would get one.

A foam wolverine: Just make it look unique. The first time it gets called a bear, it's out of there.

A Block M: As my housemate put put it, this would be far too much like a Sesame street puppet. Still it would be fun to have a two person "M."

A Nutcracker: Yes, it would essentially be someone in a band uniform with face-paint. Yes, we would be blatantly playing up the rivalry. Yes, Buckeye nuts are poisonous, but who said that college traditions had to make any sense?

A frontiersmen: according to my sources, it was either the residents of Ohio or the native tribes that described the Michigan settlers as fierce wolverines. We could totally have someone dress in a frontier outfit. The best part is that he could have a backpack with all kinds of trinkets hanging from it, each representing an important part of Michigan's culture and industry. I know we would sort of be steeling the Mountaineer from West Virginia, but we have never been bashful about steeling from them in the past. We get bonus points if he rides a horse. Mascots on horses are cool.

A male waterfowl: That right we would call it, "The Michi-gander."

The outline of the state: We could have a tall skinny guy dress up as the UP and a short fat guy dress up as the lower peninsula. They could do comedy routine.

Some kind of monstrosity: A block M with a plush wolverine head riding a horse would be awesome. I would totally get behind that.

In the end, I think we need a mascot. I like both serious and silly ideas as long as they are unique. Also, I would totally volunteer to dress as the frontiersman. Maybe, I will just declare myself the mascot and see where it goes from there. Anyway, I need to get behind the mascot campaign.