Nicholls State's mascot

[sickemsmokey10]

is it just me, or does the Colonel of Nicholls State look alot like Joesph Stalin?

 

[Brog]

Other than they both have a hat and are male, no they aren't similar.

 

[Co. Aytch]

This was pretty funny! I dont know sickem....I dont see it and I am trying hard...By the way where is Nicholls State??

 

[FOX86]

Nicholls State is located in Thibodaux (Pronounced "TI-BID-OH") , Louisiana. I attended NSU in 2004 when this whole thing got started. The NAACP threw a fit because our mascot was a confederate colonel and that was "racially insensitive" according to them. I never personally knew anyone white, black or otherwise who found "Tillou" (pronounced "TEE-LEW") offensive because they know who he was and what he was. The whole reason we are the colonels is because the institution is named after Francis Tillou Redding Nicholls, a former CONFEDERATE Colonel and governor of the great state of Louisiana. Though after the civil war his house mysteriously caught fire and most of his civil war documents were lost (it's widely believed he burned the documents purposely as an act of contrition). They spent $30,000 to get a new mascot and this is what we got. I am very disappointed. In closing, yes I am from Louisiana, still live there but I do have family living in Knoxville and am a fan of both the Fightin' Tigers of LSU and the VOLS. I get crap all the time for having big orange paraphernalia on my truck but I don't care and when big orange comes to Tiger stadium in October know I will be the only person originally from Louisiana wearing big orange with pride!! GO VOLS!!! :rock:

 

[Brog]

That was actually a pretty good job for a first post, though a bit random with the 7 month bump. Welcome to VN, Fox.

 

[TrueOrange]

is it just me, or does the Colonel of Nicholls State look alot like Joesph Stalin?

please, we can play "who looks like stalin" all day


i mean look at mario in the first super mario brothers game

 

[VOLinFL_]

He looks more like M Bison from Street Fighter.

 

[jsc1973]

Nah. First of all, Uncle Joe wasn't a mere colonel. After he took over, he promoted himself all the way to field marshal. And he never would have held the sword like that himself. He would have had someone beside him to do the dirty work--and Beria behind that guy to make sure he did it right.

Nicholls should be spending more money on its athletic programs and less on logos. It wasn't too long ago that their men's basketball team was fighting to stay out of the very last spot in the RPI.

 

[wareagle044]

i laughed. he does.

 

[Ohio Vol]

Mike Holmgren looks like Josef Stalin.