Hundreds Of People Sign Joke Petition To Ban Sparky As Arizona State’s Mascot
It’s been a rough few weeks for Sparky, the Arizona State Sun Devils mascot. First, the school had to apologize to a city council member after Sparky jumped on his back during an ASU football game. The councilman had just had back surgery and the playful leap turned into a torn back muscle and several more weeks of recovery. Oops.
Finally home from the hospital! Here's what happened Friday that put me back in hospital 2 months after back surgery: pic.twitter.com/FGdpVli3x9
— David Schapira (@dschapira) September 22, 2015
Now, Sparky’s under fire again. This time for just trying to be himself.
Last week, a petition on Change.org entitled “Ban Arizona State University from using Satan as its mascot” popped up online. Here was the description via KPNX:
Arizona State University calls itself the ‘Sun Devils’. This is an inappropriate and offensive nickname to all good, non devil worshippers in the world.
Satan is a symbol of evil. A supposed institution of higher learning should not be able to use this symbol to represent itself [sic]. The ‘Sun Devil’ mascot scares children and causes nightmares.
The world will be a better place when all images of Satan, including the ‘Sun Devil’ mascot and symbol are eliminated.
The petition, which appears to have been edited and shut down by its creator, received 432 supporters out of its goal of 500 by Monday. The creator, Josh Miller said the whole thing was a joke, which is a crying shame. The people who would’ve come out of the woodwork to seriously defend Miller’s petition would’ve been hilarious.
The petition was signed by mostly University of Arizona fans who are likely still a little pissed their haka dance was discontinued over the weekend due to similar outcry. As for Sparky, he’s one of the best-designed mascots in all of college sports. ASU also has a knack for churning out females that are fire as hell and total smokeshows (devil puns for days) so the school is doing something right.
I’m glad Sparky didn’t get burned here..
[via KPNX]
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10 years ago at 3:22 pmWhoa this is so frat.
10 years ago at 3:33 pmDo they not have anything better to do
10 years ago at 3:44 pmYou better check your privilege before I check it for you bro.
10 years ago at 8:14 amAnyone else feel kind of victimized when they look at it, like it’s about to find you when you’re vulernably alone and rape you? Seriously, I don’t like the way it’s looking at me.
10 years ago at 3:53 pmArizona is the Florida of the West. Weird shit happens here daily
10 years ago at 3:55 pmNo kidding, the Phoenix Metropolitan Area homeless population are a different breed.
10 years ago at 4:13 pmWhat about the Duke Blue Devils?
10 years ago at 3:58 pmObviously promotes satan, again
10 years ago at 6:39 pmSpeaking of which, Christian Laettner should have to change his name. Who is he to run around being all Rich and white. To make it worse, he is named Christian! What about all of those who aren’t Christians? Now they are forced to shame themselves by saying his name. He’s obviously a racist.
10 years ago at 12:09 amSparky was created in the 40’s by a Disney animator and he purposely made it look like a devil version of Walt Disney. So hating Sparky is basically saying ESPN sucks. Which is blasphemy.
10 years ago at 4:09 pmYou like DraftKings commercials
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10 years ago at 4:28 pmThanks for the input
10 years ago at 7:50 pmThey should change it to a really disgusting looking snatch to match its students.
10 years ago at 10:42 pm