Kramer Cook Leaving SU to go Row the Boat

[Franz69]

Row the boat, chop the wood, bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan:

 

[PhatOrange]

Well, in this case the Paul Bunyan’s axe is involved in their rivalry game with Wisconsin. Part of the color and tradition of college football, you might say. As opposed to the no color, few traditions, or no real football rivalries that we have so naturally it looks stupid to us. Or maybe we are jealous.

Every year there are threads about creating a tradition or a true football rival for SU. Every year...

It’s sort of sad when you get right down to it. We have few original traditions and no specific football rival for over 50 years. They can’t be created out of whole cloth however; they develop organically over time between two schools who consider each other their big rival and who actually have fan bases who care about their football team in large numbers and who circle that game against each other on their calendar.

There are schools that actually have that. No school that we root for, but there are schools.

I can assure you I'm not jealous that we don't dress the visitors up in robes and put an axe in their hand.

A Paul Bunyan makes some sense if the legends are true and he was born in Minnesota. I'll have to brush up on my folklore. Minnesota's new traditions are hard to keep straight, I don't know if they're rowing boats or chopping down trees.

We used to have some great traditions but sadly they were chopped. I love my old Saltine Warrior stuff.

 

[DMDMD]

I can assure you I'm not jealous that we don't dress the visitors up in robes and put an axe in their hand.

A Paul Bunyan makes some sense if the legends are true and he was born in Minnesota. I'll have to brush up on my folklore. Minnesota's new traditions are hard to keep straight, I don't know if they're rowing boats or chopping down trees.

We used to have some great traditions but sadly they were chopped. I love my old Saltine Warrior stuff.

The Axe has been their trophy for the game sine 1948.

No one's been to Paul Bunyan Land in Baxter (now Brainerd), MN?

 

[CuseLegacy]

I can assure you I'm not jealous that we don't dress the visitors up in robes and put an axe in their hand.

A Paul Bunyan makes some sense if the legends are true and he was born in Minnesota. I'll have to brush up on my folklore. Minnesota's new traditions are hard to keep straight, I don't know if they're rowing boats or chopping down trees.

We used to have some great traditions but sadly they were chopped. I love my old Saltine Warrior stuff.

Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. He just ended up in Minnesota.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

I can assure you I'm not jealous that we don't dress the visitors up in robes and put an axe in their hand.

A Paul Bunyan makes some sense if the legends are true and he was born in Minnesota. I'll have to brush up on my folklore. Minnesota's new traditions are hard to keep straight, I don't know if they're rowing boats or chopping down trees.

We used to have some great traditions but sadly they were chopped. I love my old Saltine Warrior stuff.

Of course I didn’t mean you specifically were jealous.

The Saltine Warrior was the mascot of my youth and my SU years, but except for a few LAX players the Onondaga Nation had nothing specific to do with Syracuse University nor did it have anything to do with the salt industry that I can recall. What difference does it matter where Paul Bunyan came from? It is the tradition and rivalry between the two schools that is what is important. If it is meaningful to them, that’s all that counts. I wish we had that kind of meaning too.

Yeah, we had great traditions and some actual annual rivalries long ago. Those days are long gone, however. More is the pity.

 

[PhatOrange]

Of course I didn’t mean you specifically were jealous.

The Saltine Warrior was the mascot of my youth and my SU years, but except for a few LAX players the Onondaga Nation had nothing specific to do with Syracuse University nor did it have anything to do with the salt industry that I can recall. What difference does it matter where Paul Bunyan came from? It is the tradition and rivalry between the two schools that is what is important. If it is meaningful to them, that’s all that counts. I wish we had that kind of meaning too.

Yeah, we had great traditions and some actual annual rivalries long ago. Those days are long gone, however. More is the pity.

Don't disagree, our first mistake was probably naming ourselves after a color.

I don't think it has to matter if anything is specific to Syracuse University, obviously Upstate is steeped in Native American history as well as Syracuse being the Salt City. No more connected than the University of Minnesota and Paul Bunyan.

Maybe our kids can pose with the Cardiff Giant.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Don't disagree, our first mistake was probably naming ourselves after a color.

I don't think it has to matter if anything is specific to Syracuse University, obviously Upstate is steeped in Native American history as well as Syracuse being the Salt City. No more connected than the University of Minnesota and Paul Bunyan.

Maybe our kids can pose with the Cardiff Giant.

I think it’s only a matter of time before our hoops recruits pose for photos while waving some scrap metal around…

I do think that if we had a football tradition, the University would figure out a way to leverage it somehow. We just don’t have one though.

44? nope, not a tradition. It is the “legend” of 44, kind of like the legend of Bigfoot. Neither are ever seen, although at least if Bigfoot exists he doesn’t need the express written consent of Floyd Little’s family to do so.

I think we both lament the lack of tradition and an arch rival for football. We are reduced to having recruits get their pictures taken with the Cardiff Giant or a big salt potato.

 

[Ozone!]

His replacement will ultimately prove better and more loyal to our program! I appreciate his efforts on the part of the program!

 

[LAOrange]

As an executive recruiter for the last 27 years, I can promise you he had to be better than you think. Big Ten schools don't go after non-performers. Don't be surprised if several of our 3-Stars perform like 5-Stars this fall.

these gimmicks are hilarious. axes, thrones, chainsaws. At least Rutgers nickname is a knight, the throne makes 'some' sense. but when you have gophers and bearcats throwing up axes and thrones it's just stupid.

It has to do with the Northwood's image of lumberjacks and Paul Bunyan.

 

[Trueblue25]

Paul Bunyan?

The guy at Enchanted Forest Water Safari you mean?

 

[sutomcat]

Paul Bunyan?

The guy at Enchanted Forest Water Safari you mean?

Yes. Our Paul Bunyan. They are trying to steal our fictional character.

That prize for that game should be a barrel filled with cheese and lutefish.

 

[Trueblue25]

Yes. Our Paul Bunyan. They are trying to steal our fictional character.

That prize for that game should be a barrel filled with cheese and lutefish.

Paul’s a good, hardworking upstate New Yorker.

I knew it.

 

[RMH44]

Yes. Our Paul Bunyan. They are trying to steal our fictional character.

That prize for that game should be a barrel filled with cheese and lutefish.

Why not walleye? Restaurants in MN do more with walleye than any other place I've been.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

So one needs a big axe to row a boat?

I guess you can’t row a boat unless you first chop the wood to build said boat and oars. I’m trying to figure out if that’s a Member’s Only or Starter jacket.

For the record, I am not the least bit jealous. I just think the picture looks douchey. Best of luck to him.

 

[MG44]

Paul Bunyan?

The guy at Enchanted Forest Water Safari you mean?

That's what I was gonna say! There's only 1 real paul bunyan and hes been in old forge since I was 3 so Minnesota can kiss my axe. (No that's not me...but the pic that came up was a guy in a Syracuse shirt lol)

 

[sutomcat]

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That's what I was gonna say! There's only 1 real paul bunyan and hes been in old forge since I was 3 so Minnesota can kiss my axe. (No that's not me...but the pic that came up was a guy in a Syracuse shirt lol)

We have Hippie Paul Bunyan too.

The Story Behind The Hippie Paul Bunyan Statue In New York

This massive Paul Bunyan statue in New York has an interesting, if fuzzy, history. He now stands proudly near the site of Woodstock.

www.onlyinyourstate.com

There was once one in Rochester but no one seems too know what happened to it. I suspect a wood chopping thief from Minnesota.

Remember Rochester’s Paul Bunyan statue? Where did it go?

It’s National Paul Bunyan Day (yes), so we’re taking a look back.

www.democratandchronicle.com

 

[sutomcat]

Why not walleye? Restaurants in MN do more with walleye than any other place I've been.

Could be walleye.

I know lutefisk (misspelled in my original post) is a big thing in Minneapolis.

Fish pickled in lye. Gag me.

It seems like something Kramer might want to snack on.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

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That's what I was gonna say! There's only 1 real paul bunyan and hes been in old forge since I was 3 so Minnesota can kiss my axe. (No that's not me...but the pic that came up was a guy in a Syracuse shirt lol)

Yeah, and good luck getting Pied Piper ice cream out there in the land of 10,000 lakes, Kramer!