Why do we have mascots? Are we superstitious and believe an inanimate object can bring good luck? Is it to create a common identity? Is it something to aid in marketing or merchandising? Is it all those things? Here's the mascot of the Tufts University football team, Jumbo the elephant, standing near the goal line at a home game on a beautiful, unseasonably warm October day.
It was such a nice day that the sports photographer just leaned back and soaked up the sun instead.....
Jumbo was everywhere.
Tufts, in Medford, Massachusetts, is one of the top private universities in the United States. Why Jumbo for a mascot? It seems that the great showman PT Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts. Hmmmm.
With a single-shot point-and-shoot camera, what were the odds of me photographing the ball at the precise moment it passed between the goal posts? I suspect less likely than the odds of the ball actually going between them. It is not an easy task to control the path of a pointy prolate spheroid by kicking it.
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