What the F is a Billiken?

[untitledproject]

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[kyxu]

It's an old, wooden ship used during the Civil War.

[ATL Muskie]

A good luck charm that was popular in the early 1900's.

Ask me, I think it looks like a constipated goat:

http://www.slu.edu/pr/images/billiken_story_big.jpg

[BBC 08]

It is the central component to the string theory.

Or the wooden ship thing.

Yeah, I really have no idea.

[ATL Muskie]

It's an old, wooden ship used during the Civil War.

Nice.

Oh, and I think I ate your chocolate squirrel.

[Muskie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken

[KC4X]

Billiken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken)

"After a few brief years of popularity, like many other fad toys, the Billiken faded into obscurity."

[untitledproject]

It looks like a bald troll doll.

[Filthy Chilean]

I thought it was a bird. If not, whats with the old mascot??

[nuts4xu]

I thought it was a version of an old, fat, tired coach who lives in a hotel and asks his players to come to his room when he is dressed in only a towel and allows said towel to fall off from time to time.

But it could be a bird, I have no idea.

I like to party.

[American X]

Failed teddy bear rip-off. But now the mascot looks like a poltergeist that eats children's souls, kind of like Shadow.

[Stonebreaker]

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LOL

What the F are you doing here? :D

[XUOHTX]

I was told by a SLU student that they had an old coach that looked similar to a Biliken so their school newspaper did a cartoon of the coach as a biliken and it stuck.

[boozehound]

I was wondering the same thing. The mascot looks like some kind of f'd up elf thing.

We have some super-queer mascots in the A-10.

[blobfan]

Not sure about the mascot but the original Billiken doll looks like a constipated Budha.

[X-band '01]

I always thought it might have been distantly related to a Dr. Seuss character.

Maybe both of the SLU fans (Billy and Ken) can elaborate.

[untitledproject]

LOL

What the F are you doing here? :D

Came back to see if I needed to crack some heads. Then I got scared off by probably the dumbest mascot on in sports history.

[Kahns Krazy]

Apparently, it's a pesky little runt that just won't go away when it's supposed to. It hangs around and hangs around until finally, you beat it. Then once it's beaten, you say, "See? You were going to get beat. Why'd you go and waste 46 second half points like that?"