The sheer entertainment factor of sports draws people to stadiums around the country. While only diehard sports fans finds all the extra glitz and glamour at sporting events distracting, everyone else
loves marching bands, baton girls, and mascots. But some mascots make no sense at all, like Stanford's Tree, but others represent something important about the school's history or location.
Now, the NCAA has decided that every college's mascot needs to be as random as the Syracuse Orange. With their ruling that Native American mascots are no longer allowed at NCAA sponsored events, the NCAA has shown that in a world of political correctness not even the entertaining aspects of athletics are safe. As it currently stands, there will be no Seminoles, Warriors, Illini, Utes, or anything else that remotely refers to anything that used to roam the plains before Custer's last stand at anything that hands out an NCAA trophy.
