The Spice is wrong!!!

[CajunKate]

_ You forgot that the pepper also scares small children. _

This is true for one of my nephews. He almost peed in his pants at the Cajundome one night because he was terrified that the Pepper was waiting for him on the concourse. I had to eventually carry him to the bathroom with him screaming, "Noooooo! HE'S UP THERE!!" like Satan himself was waiting. I tortured him for a long time with cries of, "Is that THE PEPPER, I see?" at all sporting events. Cuz I'm evil like that.

[WadeWilson]

_ Have any of you seen Brutus, The OHIO State mascot, up close. He/she/it is dressed in totally brown from head to feet with an acorn on the head. Now that comes close to the Pepper. At least the pepper is colorful. _

A buckeye is a hairless nut

[CajunDreDog]

A buckeye is a hairless nut

Oh, where do I begin.....nah, I'll keep it clean!

[NOCajun]

The slogan is pretty cheesy but I still like the pepper logo. _

Well then sorry, my brother, but you're the ONLY one who does!!

[Cajunbander]

All I'm saying is that our spirit board for band had to be Press Your Luck themed. If you remember, the board had three lines of text, "Press" on the first, "Your" on the second, and "Luck" on the third. We drew out our gameboard, and we were going to put "SQUEEZE THE HOOTERS", but, we probably would have not gotten away with it. We ended up putting "BEAT THE" on the first line, "WHOOTERS" on the third, and "Geaux Cajuns" on the second line, and in the middle.

[rhineaux]

_ Have any of you seen Brutus, The OHIO State mascot, up close. He/she/it is dressed in totally brown from head to feet with an acorn on the head. Now that comes close to the Pepper. At least the pepper is colorful. _

It is a mascot. It is only seen a few times a year at games, and I'd be willing to be that it doesn't scare children. Ohio State understands that a mascot and a logo are not the same. Hence, Ohio State doesn't have brown apparel and merchandise created with an acorn on it. The Houston Rockets have a grey bear named Clutch as a mascot, The Phoenix Suns have a black Gorilla, and The Tennessee Volunteers have a dog, as does the New Orleans Saints. All of those entities understand the difference between logo's and mascots, and understand how to brand themselves. Thus, merchandise is only produced the way they want it produced.

UL, on the other hand, doesn't understand that a mascot and logos are different. They don't understand the importance of branding and how the wrong “brand” can make the President of the United States appear as the Mayor of Butte La Rose and a Large, Accomplished University appear as a Single-A baseball team. Because of the pepper's "colorful" appearance, they've created a problem in which companies produce crap that's outside of UL's traditional color scheme of Vermilion and White. When asked why I saw a yellow and red UL sweater at a Lafayette store about a year ago, UL's Top PR and Marketing Person responded that, in addition to producing merchandise in the school's colors, manufacturers produce “fashion lines” that incorporate the latest fashion colors. She was obviously full of it because I haven’t seen any LSU stuff in anything but P&G&W and I haven’t seen any UT stuff in anything other than O&W. So either UL is really "lucky" in that these manufacturers think so highly of us that they chose to limit these fashion lines to UL, or she knows how bad they’ve messed up UL’s Identity and Brand and was trying to play it off as someone else’s fault. She did try to make me feel better by saying that when the University buys things for giveaways and the like, that they stick with the official university colors of red, white, and BLACK. So, I guess she was trying to say that at least they get it right half of the time (which in itself is an admission that there is a problem and that they’ve lost control of marketing and branding) but since Black really isn’t a University color, I guess “half of the time” is a little too generous.

[CajunRed]

_ Our homecoming slogan is worse than a fast food commercial. The spice is friggin right. Lets zero in on the problem, the cottonpicking pepper. This thing not only causes acid reflux, it has stripped us of a manly awesome mascot and given us an inanimate object used to stereotype our culture as spicy food guzzling inbred swine. Everything called cajun outside of lousiana is an abortion of a meal with black pepper dumbed brazenly on it with out regard for your intestine. I hate the pepper. The pepper looks horrible. The pepper gets no reaction at games. The pepper looks like a butt plug. I can go on for hours. I have the best homecoming slogan ever...ready for it......Beat the ____ing Owls!!! _

Instead of telling one what someone else who's volunteered the time and energy to coordinate homecoming activities what they're doing wrong, I have a suggestion... why not volunteer to do it yourself?

[CAJUN_LXA685]

_ Instead of telling one what someone else who's volunteered the time and energy to coordinate homecoming activities what they're doing wrong, I have a suggestion... why not volunteer to do it yourself? _

Damn! Snap!

[HOUCajun]

_ Well then sorry, my brother, but you're the ONLY one who does!! _

+1. I like the pepper. There I said it, I feel better now. Any other closet pepper likers out there?

[Turbine]

_ +1. I like the pepper. There I said it, I feel better now. Any other closet pepper likers out there? _

That tingle you feel isn't from the pepper, it's your conscience.