Bulldogs Need a Few Good Real Bulldogs
November 13, 2009 | 8:49 amSorry to all you folks with bulldog costumes in your attic. Your services are not needed.
Jim Newbury of the Decatur Bulldog Boosters writes in…
REAL BULLDOG NEEDED FOR STARDOM
The Decatur Bulldog Boosters are looking for a few good bulldogs (ie: real bulldogs) to star in two upcoming videos that promote involvement with the club. Skills needed: bone chewing and panting. The videos will be played on the DHS electronic scoreboard during football, lacrosse and soccer games. If you have a pet that might be interested in being on the big screen, give Jim Newbury a call at 404-378-2844.
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I realize that there are years of tradition and an active group of boosters behind the teams, but is it too late to ask the high School to consider changing its mascot?
Koalas, Emus, Ill-tempered Goats, . . . just about anything else. I’m having a tough time seeing myself yell, “Go Bulldogs!” while our kids attend DHS.
but in the spirit of compromise remember that they wear the colors of Georgia Tech . . .
Understood.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just send your kids to a different school that has an insect/reptile/etc. as its’ mascot?
That way the tradition/etc. etc could stay the same and only YOU would have to change.
(meant in good humor…do we have emoticons available on here?)
How about “Decatur Gobstoppers”?
Catchy, no?
How about the Wild Bull Owl Cat Dogs?
Well, at my high school, our team was the Highlanders. And yes… our mascot was a guy in a skirt (well, a kilt to be exact). We didn’t have a football team… only a soccer team and a few other “lesser” sports. If we had fielded a football team, I’m sure we would have had to do something about the guy with the skirt.
Not that there’s anything wrong with a guy in a skirt….. I know, this is Decatur.
Needless to say, I’m not complainin’ about no bulldog.
I just realize that we’d definitely win more if we were yellow jackets or something like that.
Hey, with all the big hype around here about urban farming… why don’t we rename ourselves the Decatur High School Urban Chickens?
‘Scuse me, you are stealing from College Heights. If you had bought a tshirt you would know we Heightsians are urban farming chickens. Not too late to get a College Heights t-shirt, BTW. And Support The Farming Preschool Chickens!
I like the idea of changing the name to the “Decatur Multi-Cultural Nondenominational Independent Mutts”
How about the Decatur High School Crossing Guards. They are tougher than any mascot I can think of!
I know I’m old because my high school teams were the Redskins and nobody was politically correct enough yet to complain.
The schools can always use more money, so why not sell the mascot naming rights? The Decatur Brick Store Belgian Bulldogs? The Decatur Fighting Farmers Markets? The Decatur Raging Burrito Beaneaters? Or my favorite, The Decatur Red (formerly known as) Granges.
Go Decatur Beaneaters…. BLAST ‘EM!!!!!!!