March Madness Team Intros: Team 3
We’re now one week away from March Madness and it’s time to meet team 3. From Saint Louis, Missouri and somehow playing in the Atlantic 10 Conference (not seeing the Atlantic Ocean anywhere close), this team comes from the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is the alma mater of Brian McBride, the only American to score a goal in more than one FIFA World Cup Tournament, Bob Ferry, the dad of Cleveland Cavaliers’ GM Danny Ferry, and some guy named Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass in football at this university in 1906. As for the guy who threw the first illegal forward pass? Forgotten by history.
This team’s mascot was recently tapped as one of the “coolest” in all the country. He was designed by Florence Prentz, a Missouri art teacher and illustrator, just two years after Robinson’s epic pass in 1906. No one is quite sure what her inspiration for the character was, but no matter what the origins, he is described as having a “cheery personality, a broad smile, and a rotund belly”. Some have described him as an elf, some have said he’s a vampire, others think he’s an alien, and still others have said he bears a striking likeness to a former coach, Coach Bender. Must have been one ugly dude. I’m not sure what he is, but I give you the third team of March Madness: the Saint Louis Billikens and their mascot, The Billiken!
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