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What......??? Sioux is gone forever. Sorry to break the news, but say goodbye! You also seem to be inserting "tama" in front of hawks which won't happen. So again.....what the hell are you talking about.

Sorry, it may be the Friday night in me talking, but what?!?! What were you trying to say?

I think the idea was they're popular because they're unique to their respective state, not all the same bird

There doesn't have to be a T. Roosevelt fixation. There were plenty of other people who we a part of the Rough Riders. The Library of Congress (Hispanic Division, if that even matters) says the RR's "...became the place for a mix of troops ranging from Ivy League athletes to glee-club singers to Texas Rangers and Indians." http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/roughriders.html

Found the new intro song

That's just an absolute garbage reason to have Fighting Hawks. I don't know how but I'm going to spread that gif for all to see how crazy it is to become another birdie. Maybe tweet it to Big Bad Brad Schlossman or Miller? Oh and yea that kid can go to NDSU and become a bizun for all I care, I'd rather have UND be Roughriders along with RRHS, than UND be Hawks along with (Insert all the schools). I'm also pretty sure no one outside GFK cares that there's a high school with Roughriders. My high school was the Rams and a lot of kids ended up going to Fordham U or U of Rhode Island, who are the Rams, and they loved it. "Once a Ram, always a Ram," they say. Whatever. Hawks it is. I give up.

Took the long list of logos, found each logo, made a gif. Enjoy, and maybe think about UND's new logo? How bout them hawk logos!?!? CAWWWWW! #SuperUnique #SuperOriginal

You know what gets me really PO'd, what gets me ticked off, cheesed off, miffed, peeved, (other words)? How UConn uses sacred Brass Bonanza as their goal horn. How dare they take that from my defunct Whalers. I'm so miffed.

http://dailycampus.com/stories/2015/10/27/column-uconn-hockey-belongs-in-hartford The second half of that first sentence is open for debate Mr. Madigan. I'm still up to have the Huskies come to town and see a real arena

From that link I navigated to this one which lists schools with bird mascots. He notes at the bottom the most used were hawks and falcons for the same reason (fierce, predator, blah blah bland). I took the liberty of counting ONLY the Hawk, or Hawk related nicknames. I didn't even count the other bird nicknames (Eagles, Ravens, Pelicans, etc.) Here they are, and note that I can't speak to it's accuracy anymore as it was published on 9/13/2006, so take it for what it's worth. Here we go: Dickinson State University (Dickinson, North Dakota) - Blue Hawks Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa) - "Duhawks" (Dubuque Hawks) Hartwick College (Oneonta, New York) - Hawks Hilbert College (Hamburg, New York) - Hawks Hunter College-City University of New York (New York, New York) - Hawks Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama) - Hawks Monmouth University (Monmouth, New Jersey) - Hawks Quincy University (Quincy, Illinois) - Hawks Rockhurst College (Kansas City, Missouri) - Hawks Roger Williams University (Bristol, Rhode Island) - Hawks Saint Anselm College (Manchester, New Hampshire) - Hawks Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Hawks San Diego Christian College (El Cajon, California) - Hawks Shorter College (Rome, Georgia) - Hawks State University of New York-College at New Paltz (New Paltz, New York) - Hawks University of Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut) - Hawks University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (Princess Anne, Maryland) - Hawks University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) - Jayhawk Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) - Kohawks Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) - Mountain Hawks Thomas College (Thomasville, Georgia) - Nighthawks Indiana University-Northwest (Gary, Indiana) (former nickname: The Blast) - Redhawks Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) (former nickname: Redskins) - Redhawks Seattle University (Seattle, Washington) - Redhawks Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) (former nicknames: Indians for men and Otahkians for women) - Redhawks LaRoche College (Pittsburgh, Penbnsylvania) - Red Hawks Montclair State University (Upper Montclair, New Jersey) - Red Hawks Ripon College (Ripon, Wisconsin) - Red Hawks University of Massachusetts-Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts) - River Hawks Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) - Scarlet Hawks Northwood University (West Palm Beach, Florida) - Seahawks Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island) - Seahawks St. Mary's College of Maryland (St. Mary's City, Maryland) - Seahawks University of North Carolina-Wilmington (North Carolina) - Seahawks Wagner College (Staten Island, New York) - Seahawks Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colorado) - Skyhawks Stonehill College (North Easton, Massachusetts) (former nickname: Chieftains) - Skyhawks University of Tennessee-Martin - Skyhawks Miami University-Middletown (Middletown, Ohio) - Thunderhawks Viterbo University (LaCrosse, Wisconsin) - V-Hawks University of Louisiana-Monroe (Monroe, Louisiana) (former nickname: Indians) - Warhawks University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Whitewater, Wisconsin) - Warhawks Last I counted there were 42 Hawk or hawk related nicknames. Feel free to count the other birds, I don't have the time or the patience. But seriously please consider this list when voting. I know none have "Fighting" in front but I assure you, it won't separate the University of North Dakota from this list. Let's be 1/1 not 1/42.

All this nonsense has me feeling like Bill O'Reilly that one time

My reaction when Fighting Hawks wins. #ILoveYouBoeheim

Oh I finally get it! It's like driving anywhere near someone from Massachusetts and calling them a Masshole, because they are the worst drivers I've ever seen! Boston College Massholes has a nice ring, come to think of it Don't worry though, because we'll be the UND Fighting Hawks. I've given up. Lost all hope.

All I ask is that we don't follow the script laid out by the former Native American logo'd schools before us. I have nothing against birds, but as a logo and nickname it's well trodden territory. It's upsetting that people find it ok to go that route as if we're being unique in any way. What sets UND apart from any other bird based school? Literally nothing. At all. But hey it has Fighting in it right?!? MAYBE WE'LL GET FIGHTING SIOUX BACK!!!!! Or not. I had to explain to some students that if we became FS again we'd be kicked out of the NCAA and that would no doubt ruin our athletic program, so I called them out on being UND fans who are really non-UND fans. They got upset. So I said, get bent.

Also the NCAA is not that stupid, stupid yes but not that stupid, and will realize that it's a blatant call back to Fighting Sioux.

HA!!!! GOT 'EM!

Oxbow. Fair enough point. I like to call people who voted based off that non-logo "sheeple" but I say it in a Jesse "The Mind, The Body, The Eternal Spirit" Ventura voice, like "I'm going off the grid to my compound in Mexico because of these sheeple"

Update on my talk with other students, I've heard from more than one person "If roughriders wins, I'm transferring" What?? Then you are no fan of UND in the first place and, hell I'll say it, I don't want you here. Same goes for people who say "I will no longer donate to the school," please, get over yourself. To many people clinging desperately to Fighting Sioux, and yes I agree many students voted for FH because they believed the logo was legit. Apparently no one at this school can do any basic research and believe everything they hear.

Does that make UND Alumni lemmings too?

Go DAKS go

Winning a National Championship never hurt anything! Honestly, I could live with any of the 3 remaining names. We could be in a much worse position then we find ourselves in today. We could be the Banana Slugs (Chirp chirp UC Santa Cruz), or worse yet...the Golden Gophers . And please, continue with the hashtags, I'm a huge proponent of unnecessary hashtags! #hashtag

Well, speaking as a student, I've tried (Stress "tried") speaking with fellow students, and honestly I can't seem to derail their fascination with Fighting Hawks. From what I gather that they couldn't care less that it's not unique and a s***t load of schools have bird mascots, but I genuinely couldn't tell you why they're voting Fighting Hawks. Beats me. So while I wont be voting for FH, I'd say get used to the sound of University of North Dakota Fighting Bland Awful Hawks. (Please God let me wrong)