Originally Posted by jaretac 
Strangely, the thing that irritated me the most was how everyone kept saying that we chose the cardinal as our mascot because our colors are cardinal and gold. We were originally the Cardinals before we became the Cyclones, which is where we got the colors and the mascot.
A little off topic, but I don't understand why our helmet options were white or cardinal, why not gold?
The reason why is that "STATE" would get completely lost in the gold helmet, even with a cardinal outline. On the cardinal helmet, "STATE" sticks out, and even the "I" is visible.
