<p>Which is it?
Mostly, I want to know, if I say that the university mascot is the phoenix, will I stating something false? I’m pretty sure that for sports, chicago is the maroons (right?). however, is the mascot still the phoenix?
It’s for a last minute detail in my Why Chicago essay, so please respond quickly!</p>
<p>Sports team name: Maroons.</p>
<p>Mascot: Phoenix.</p>
<p>The Phoenix is on the University seal; Maroon is the school color.</p>
<p>So yes, the two don’t quite go together.</p>
<p>okay, thank you.</p>
<p>and isn’t the gargoyle like an unofficial mascot too?</p>
<p>I still consider the Phoenix the mascot, mostly because I have no idea what a “Maroon” is supposed to look like. My theory is that the teams are only called that because Phoenixes is too hard to say.</p>
<p>I wish we could be the phoenixes</p>
<p>I think it would be kind of cool, but that’s mostly because I think it would be funny to be a maroon. Does anybody else remember how bugs bunney would call people maroons instead of morons. I’ve done the same for a long time… so now i think it would be cool to be a maroon ;)</p>
<p>I read somewhere that we are not the Phoenixes because there is not supposed to be a plural of phoenix–according to mythology there was only ever one phoenix in existence at a time. A new phoenix (or really, the same one) could only be born (reborn) from the ashes of the prior one.</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous. What about parallel universes? Darn Chicago and its logic. It would still be epically amusing to yell, “Go Phoenixes!”</p>