Letter to the editor: Cy is no mere Cardinal
Mikinna Kerns/Iowa State Daily
Iowa State’s Cy the Cyclone helps with introductions during the opening ceremony for the newly renovated Radisson Hotel. The multimillion hotel renovation included upgrades to its 75 guest rooms and suites, lobby and exterior.
September 17, 2018
It behooves me to point out a slight inaccuracy in Chris Jorgensen’s September 12 feature “Who is Incarnate Word?”
Specifically, the line “Their mascot is a cardinal, the same as Iowa State’s mascot.”
Now, this may escape the newest generation of Cyclone alumni who have grown up with the awful Fisher-Price-esque Pollard-era I-State logo, but Cy is no mere cardinal.
Unlike, say, Donald Duck or Winnie the Pooh, Cy wears pants. Those pants are a tornado. A faithful depiction would almost surely cause some liability issues during mascot appearances, and make Cy far less huggable.
Which would be a shame, because Cy is eminently huggable.
The world’s finest agricultural institution and first Land Grant university not only has the best, THE. BEST. fight song ever composed, it also hosts the best darsh garn mascot ever conceived:
Cy is no mere Cardinal. Cy is a Cardinal wearing tornado pants. He has no equal.
