I will NEVER understand

El Paso Eagle · September 27, 2020

Texas State was up and holding BC
Get to the fourth and they go to a "prevent" and only rush three
BC moves at will and scores

Tired of hearing how smart coaches are when this happens over and over

Graddean · September 27, 2020

I think it was Dandy Don Meredith called NFL prevent defenses to Lose.

Side Show Joe · September 27, 2020

We should be playing a series with BC. We are the two oldest college programs with Eagles as their mascots. BC adopted the Golden Eagle in 1920 and we adopted the (Bald?) Eagle in 1922.

wardly · September 27, 2020

Texas Tech did the same with a 15 point lead and Sam picked them apart.

SilverEagle · September 27, 2020

11 hours ago, Side Show Joe said:

We should be playing a series with BC. We are the two oldest college programs with Eagles as their mascots. BC adopted the Golden Eagle in 1920 and we adopted the (Bald?) Eagle in 1922.

We should have adopted the Golden Eagle or the Red Tail Hawk as our mascot. Both are much more common to the Denton Area.

letsgiveacheer · September 27, 2020

24 minutes ago, SilverEagle said:

We should have adopted the Golden Eagle or the Red Tail Hawk as our mascot. Both are much more common to the Denton Area.

Or the famous Silver Eagle!

SilverEagle · September 27, 2020

6 minutes ago, letsgiveacheer said:

Or the famous Silver Eagle!

infamous........and somewhat annoying.

Hmmmm, that describes the North Texas student body almost to a T.

As I've pointed out in the past. Considering our tradition of bitching and griping about.....well..... anything. We should have adopted the "Harpy Eagle" as our mascot.

southsideguy · September 27, 2020

On 9/19/2020 at 7:41 PM, NM Green said:

52 minutes ago, SilverEagle said:

infamous........and somewhat annoying.

Hmmmm, that describes the North Texas student body almost to a T.

As I've pointed out in the past. Considering our tradition of bitching and griping about.....well..... anything. We should have adopted the "Harpy Eagle" as our mascot.

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SilverEagle · September 27, 2020

52 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

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Hmmm, my wife would say that that looked just like me at sooooo many North Texas games in the past. One of the reasons that she stopped going to games with me.

DeepGreen · September 27, 2020

2 hours ago, letsgiveacheer said:

Or the famous Silver Eagle!

Silver Eagle? A legend in his own mind.

UNT 90 Grad · September 27, 2020

2 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

We should have adopted the Golden Eagle or the Red Tail Hawk as our mascot. Both are much more common to the Denton Area.

Our university represents the North Texas region rather than just Denton. Our forefathers had great insight into the future:

The Bald Eagle is becoming more common in north Texas, especially in winter. It is usually found at the larger area lakes. Nesting has increased as well.

https://bpraptorcenter.org/baldeagle/

El Paso Eagle · September 27, 2020

4 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

We should have adopted the Golden Eagle or the Red Tail Hawk as our mascot. Both are much more common to the Denton Area.

Then most likely would have never become the Mean Green

greenminer · September 27, 2020

3 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Then most likely would have never become the Mean Green

I disagree.

Cougar King · September 28, 2020

9 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

We should have adopted the Golden Eagle or the Red Tail Hawk as our mascot. Both are much more common to the Denton Area.

You already have a mascot sir.

SilverEagle · September 28, 2020

5 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Then most likely would have never become the Mean Green

The Mean Green came about because a bunch of unknown defensive players @ NT swore that they would not be door mats any longer. They became dominate in their play and subsequently inspired a nickname......the Mean Green. Much like the defense of LSU during that era that called their defense the "Chinese Bandits".

It's a warrior cast-like designation. Much like the Cheyenne "Dog Soldiers", or the Samurai of Japan....or the Cossacks of Russia.

Hayden Fry felt that emphasizing "Mean Green" for the whole team over the Eagle Mascot (which he thought had a losing reputation) would help change the losing culture going on at NT.

It should have remained a defensive unit nickname.

Ibleedgreen · September 28, 2020

To my knowledge, we’ve never been specifically bald eagle. In fact, in the 1960s the Talons kept a caged, live golden eagle named Scrappy that they brought to every home game.

letsgiveacheer · September 28, 2020

6 minutes ago, Ibleedgreen said:

To my knowledge, we’ve never been specifically bald eagle. In fact, in the 1960s the Talons kept a caged, live golden eagle named Scrappy that they brought to every home game.

Until the eagle died, which I understood happened on more than one occasion.

GrayEagle · September 28, 2020

When I was at North Texas (back in the dark ages) there was a large cage at the back of the golf course clubhouse that kept an eagle. I'm not sure what kind of eagle it was but I'd say that it was a golden eagle. Feeding the eagle was was very difficult so it was given to Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth I'm told. I left North Texas in 1950 for a Navy hitch and came back for the spring semester of 1955. I joined the forerunner to the present Talons (called the Rally Club). As president of that club in 56-57 my job was to go to Fort Worth on home game day and get an eagle (on loan) and bring it to Denton. It was supposedly a golden eagle also. I was told that it was against the law to own or regularly keep a bald eagle as they were our protected national emblem.

I think that part of the confusion came from early art work back in the 50s. It depicted a white-headed eagle with wings akimbo and looking mean. In short, we were just the eagles with no particular type.

southsideguy · September 28, 2020

14 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

The Mean Green came about because a bunch of unknown defensive players @ NT swore that they would not be door mats any longer. They became dominate in their play and subsequently inspired a nickname......the Mean Green. Much like the defense of LSU during that era that called their defense the "Chinese Bandits".

It's a warrior cast-like designation. Much like the Cheyenne "Dog Soldiers", or the Samurai of Japan....or the Cossacks of Russia.

Hayden Fry felt that emphasizing "Mean Green" for the whole team over the Eagle Mascot (which he thought had a losing reputation) would help change the losing culture going on at NT.

It should have remained a defensive unit nickname.

Maybe someone should let our current defense know of this.

SilverEagle · September 28, 2020

50 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

Maybe someone should let our current defense know of this.

Well, if it was up to me I would engage Joe Greene and any of his former teammates from that 1966 defense to sit down and make a video for all future North Texas defensive players to view as part of their orientation into the program. It could also be a regular video for all new general population students to view in their orientation.

How long ago did A$M nail down their consistent story about the 12th man?

Why the hell can't we CONSISTENTLY tell our story about the MEAN GREEN?

A$M is all about tradition, tradition and TRADITION!

WE however are all about........well.......(in his best 16 year old girl voice)........whatever🙄

greenminer · September 28, 2020

2 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

Well, if it was up to me I would engage Joe Greene and any of his former teammates from that 1966 defense to sit down and make a video for all future North Texas defensive players to view as part of their orientation into the program. It could also be a regular video for all new general population students to view in their orientation.

How long ago did A$M nail down their consistent story about the 12th man?

Why the hell can't we CONSISTENTLY tell our story about the MEAN GREEN?

A$M is all about tradition, tradition and TRADITION!

WE however are all about........well.......(in his best 16 year old girl voice)........whatever🙄

How about we come up with something engaging at the end of the 3rd quarter of every home game? I've always dreamt of experienceing Camp Randall's "Jump Around". Maybe we can come up with something like that, but with some "Mean Green' chant involved that reminds us of who we are. I'm a rock-n-roll guy first (the classic rock stuff is great, plus the intense guitar of Dimebag Darrell at every Dallas Stars game....love it!), but I would be down for other styles too.

Ibleedgreen · October 1, 2020

Speaking of A&M and traditions...when we adopted the new design for class rings in the early 2000s and established the ring ceremony, I was excited and under the impression that we would have one ring like A&M, which would serve to make us a more cohesive alumni group. Sadly, we now seem to have multiple class ring designs. So much for that tradition...

97and03 · October 1, 2020

1 hour ago, Ibleedgreen said:

Speaking of A&M and traditions...when we adopted the new design for class rings in the early 2000s and established the ring ceremony, I was excited and under the impression that we would have one ring like A&M, which would serve to make us a more cohesive alumni group. Sadly, we now seem to have multiple class ring designs. So much for that tradition...

I mean, isn’t that appropriate? ATM is all about conformity and NT is more individualistic. Makes perfect sense to me.

southsideguy · October 1, 2020

Is it the covid thing or the SMUT massacre that have killed this fan forum. It is Thursday and I have not seen such little activity on the forum. I think a combination of both.