Doing The Math

Orson Swindle over at EDSBS (that’s the Every Day Should Be Saturday blog, for the newly initiated) thinks he has the math figured out on Saturday’s game.  Razorback fans hope, as Steven Wright once said, that “Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.”

I did get a good laugh out of the Golden Tornado blog’s SEC preview that he linked to:

Arkansas Strengths: I’ll let this piece speak for itself, I can’t sum it up any better

“The live mascot tradition dates back to the 1960s. A number of hogs have proudly represented Arkansas through the years. In addition to their presence on the sidelines, some also gained a reputation for their activities off the field.

“Big Red III, for instance, escaped from an animal exhibit near Eureka Springs in the summer of 1977 and ravaged the countryside before an irate farmer gunned him down. And Ragnar, a wild hog captured in south Arkansas by Leola farmer Bill Robinson, killed a coyote, a 450-pound domestic pig and seven rattlesnakes. Ragnar died in 1978 of unknown causes.”

So um, yeah, Razorbacks are pretty badass. I’m trying to think of another school’s mascot who had to be gunned down after leaving a swath of destruction and coming up with nothing.