The Post About Boogercats

OK, this isn't exactly movie related, but I had to share it with you. This is from the MU Athletics site.

"Huntington Advertiser sportswriter Dug Freutel in 1933 started referring to Marshall teams as the Boogercats (referring to Scotland's Bogie Cats, a "fleet, elusive, courageous" animal) and some other scribes followed in using that nickname. Freutel complained that Thundering Herd made one think of "cows stampeding down a country road," but many people thought Boogercats stirred up worse images than that.

The Boogercat controversy sparked the Marshall alumni association to hold a special meeting, in which a vote was taken to refer to the school teams as the Thundering Herd for the time being - but that a study should be undertaken to find a mascot that had a connection with the school or West Virginia.

Despite Freutel's attempts to keep Boogercat alive for the next couple of years, Thundering Herd and Big Green remained the commonly used nicknames."

This raises some important questions.

1. Do you know what I would do to be involved in something called the Boogercat controversy?

2. Can you imagine what this might have meant for the recent movie?

LENGYEL: "Listen boys, you're Boogercats, and I want to see you out there playing like Boogercats!"

3. "WE ARE ... BOOGERCATS!"

4. I know number three wasn't a question. But I couldn't pass it up.