Throughout high school and college, I have had the lamest school mascots available. When I went to Syracuse my first semester and realized our mascot was an orange, I felt like it might be a step up from Celebration's home team.
But can anything be less intimidating than an orange? Yes, yes it can. Like, say...Simba.
We were the "Celebration Pride"--like a pride of lions, only more loser-y. And less frightening. They tried to tell us the picture was not of Simba, but I don't buy it.
(*NOTE: After an extensive online search, I found it entirely sketchy that our old mascot does not exist anywhere. Even the K-8 school is calling their mascot "Spirit the Lion" and it looks like an actual lion. I'm determined to find a picture and will put one up as soon as I can.)
So, needless to say, Celebration was not known for being a sports school. Mostly for the following reasons:
1) Our lovable mascot
2) We only had a graduating class of 60, so our basketball team was our soccer team.
3) We didn't have a football team. (Who wants to promote violence??)
4) Our proximity to Orlando meant we were drinking the contaminated "boy band" water. We had a much better chance of producing the next *NSYNC than the next Globetrotters.
5) Who has time to practice while we're rehearsing for "Dreamcatcher- The Musical"?
After I left, whoever the Celebration authorities are must have caught on to this, and changed our classic mascot to this...
He's the Celebration Storm. His head is a tornado.
Good job, guys. A+ for effort. It's the same grade I'm giving our sports teams. Or lack there of.
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