It wasn’t bad enough that the UH Cougars got their butts whipped by Oregon in the season opener. Now they’re facing mascot shame.
Shasta, or at least the mascot version of him (Do they still keep the drugged real-life Shasta in that air-conditioned cage by Lynn Eusan Park?), got his tail thoroughly kicked by whatever the Oregon Duck calls itself. And now the popular college-football blog Every Day Should Be Saturday has posted video of the beatdown and analyzed the fight, so it’s gone bad, it’s nationwide.
At one point the Duck appears to be force-feeding his dick into Shasta’s mouth, while some UH cheerleaders feebly try to break things up.
Is this any way to represent? – Richard Connelly
This article appears in Sep 6-12, 2007.
