Nickname came first at North Texas? 'Mean Joe' Greene or Mean Green?

[MeanGreenTexan]

 

 

I can't answer this for everyone else, but for me it was EVERYTIME a certain organhead personality on a local sports radio station would repeat over and over again ...."how much of a sad, spare of a school do you have to be when your only claim to fame is that your mascot is named after a retired pro football player"....

 

 

Rick

Right.  Sorry, I was not clear.   Re-read from a random Fox/ESPN/fill-in-the-blank broadcaster's point of view:
 

Why would you want to do research to find out that the moniker was there before Joe?

The storyline of the 'small school' team being named after one of the greatest players to ever play the game is just too good.

[FirefightnRick]

Perfect one sentence summary of...basically everything.

Agree.

 

Rick

 

 

 

[All About UNT]

 

 

I can't answer this for everyone else, but for me it was EVERYTIME a certain organhead personality on a local sports radio station would repeat over and over again ...."how much of a sad, spare of a school do you have to be when your only claim to fame is that your mascot is named after a retired pro football player"....

 

 

Rick

F' that.... who said that?

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

F' that.... who said that?

I think he attributes this to Junior Miller but I haven't heard anything but indifference from Junior on UNT these days. Maybe this was back in the unfiltered days when they were all younger and the Ticket just started.