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Not sure if this has been posted yet or not but out of curiosity I've been watching ESPN to see if and when they'd add The American to their bloglist.  As it turns out, there is no American OR Big East.  We appear to be relegated to the CFB Nation catch all blog.  The old Big East blog isn't linked from the main page anymore.  Booo...

As embarassing as that is, the real sting is the fact that we'll be back with Brian Bennett ragging on USF... 

Wouldn't be surprised if a PI lawyer was supplying the booze.

Remodeling doesn't mean it's defective.  That evidence is inadmissable for a reason typically.

CJL was a champ.

Any of those ladies able to play QB?

Died laughing at this.

The fear the "macot" doesn't really belong to anyone in the way war eagle does. I can't think of a school that uses it for an alternate mascot

#FearTheFlamingo

War Flamingo is the humor of it though. It was done after Auburn in response. That's the history. It's funny and it makes sense. I think it's great if your going to do it.

How many real green flamingos have you seen? Change the color and no one outside of TBP knows what it is.

We just tell the crowd they're so made they're seeing green.

Fear the Flamingo would be better than War Flamingo. It would set it apart from Auburn and War Flamingo could still have it's place in history. Fear the flamingo would make this ours and not just a parody.

#FearTheFlamingo

+1. If we have to use the pink bird, do this.

I actually love the flamingos just hate the name. I feels like a cheap knock off, like us throwing up the bulls sign and saying hook Em bulls. I'm starting the movement

#FearTheFlamingo

Nothing wrong with flamingos per se, and they are a Florida symbol - I just can't think of a wussier bird. And don't bring up Oregon Ducks, I grew up in Lakeland, there's a small lake there with lots of ducks and those bastards are mean.

Technically, aren't those swans?

Side note, I like the war flamingo pic above but I'd maybe suggest putting a loose fitting USF Bulls hat with horns on the top... kind of askew maybe. Just my two cents.

Noticed this last night as well. I was guessing that it had to do with location of the viewer / media market you were viewing from. The Gainesville Market probably had some swamp related colors on Florida... yes, no, maybe? I have no idea how these things work. Still very cool though.

I'm not really excited about the terra cotta / orange painted exterior. That theme is running throughout campus more and more and I think it looks cheap / ridiculous. Absolutely everything in Miami & Ft. Lauderdale is painted that color and it's obnoxious. Hate it. focus on Green, Gold, White. It looks a lot nicer.

Well behaved group, I'm told:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLl_Y3ZsaM8

(From the BC v. UCF game last weekend)

Evidently this same fellow started a second dust up a few minutes later when the police were escorting him out.

Poor, poor knights fans.  I guess this might explain why they've been "out recruiting USF like every single year."

This has been in the pipes for a while.  I remembered reading about this Chicago guy a long time back.  Its weird we're just now hearing about it unless I'm missing something and this is a different fellow?