All I have to say this week is I LOVE MONARCH fans. This is what Big Blue had to say this morning after the polls closed against the Duck. “They can have the #1 football ranking, they can have the constant publicity, they can have the pretty uniforms....but they cannot have my fans. THANK YOU Monarch Nation for a victory over the Oregon Duck!!” That pretty much says it all; Big Blue was able to defeat the Duck in the Capital One Mascot of the Year Challenge. The Lion now stands 9-0 with over 800,000 votes. How many more weeks will it take to get to ONE MILLION?!
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| Big Blue can hurdle with his eyes closed! Thanks to Pam Wilder for the photo! |
The football Monarchs also won this past weekend bringing their record to 5-3. The battle of the HRBT was started this season, ODU going up against cross-tunnel rival Hampton University. The 15 mile trek to the Peninsula was well worth it for the Monarch special teams who had multiple blocked punts. Big Blue was trying to steal the show from the football Monarchs by doing some hurdles (pictured) as he said “the Duck may do push-ups, but does he do hurdles?” The final score of 28-14 gave something else for the Monarch nation to be proud of.
In other news, as of November 22, you will no longer be able to text in your vote for Big Blue. This will help to even the playing field for all mascots. Monarch fans should start now with the online voting in order to get enough practice in when you are no longer allowed to text. This is easy for me, because on Sunday while furiously texting in my votes for Big Blue, my phone shut off and had yet to turn back on. I will now be voting online in order to get myself prepared for playoffs.
Week 9:
Big Blue had his paws full last week as the Duck of Oregon tried to threaten the untarnished, undefeated record of the Monarch. Little doubt remained in the minds of Big Blue voters when the mascot was up by over 10,000 by Tuesday. This gave comfort to the ODU community. Oregon was only able to get within six thousand of Old Dominion this week and each time the voting was closer than ten thousand, the Monarch nation would have none of it. Voters were able to stop Oregon in its tracks each time they attempted a run. Big blue ended the week with over 170,000 votes defeating the Duck by 13,000. Go BIG BLUE!
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| Look who I found at work! |
Week 10:
UCLA is Old Dominion’s next opponent in the Capital One Mascot of the Year Challenge. Joe Bruin has not been the brightest star during the challenge this year with a record of 2-7, but as Monarch fans, we cannot count anyone as a win until 9am next Monday, so go and get your VOTE ON!
I’m taking strategy suggestions for the playoffs since they are online vote only!! Comment the blog with any ideas!
And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ Capital One Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge
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