Leave it to sharp-eyed Demon fan and entertainer extraordinare (there, I just got a free lunch) C. Rodney "Johnny Earthquake" Harrington to point out that Vic the Demons' unanimous 1992 decision over Chief Brave Spirit made ESPN again last night.
It's the mascot fight that won't go away, and we hope it never does. In a discussion of rambunctious mascots on College GameNight, the show reviewed several notable mascot mishaps and misdeeds through the years in college sports. Then the "grandaddy of them all" was introduced ... the brawl behind the north end zone between Vic and Chief Brave (?) Spirit at the 1992 NSU-NLU (now ULM) football game at Turpin Stadium.
Vic didn't start it, but he sure ended it. Even KNOE-TV in Monroe admitted he recovered from losing his (mascot) head to pummel the aggressor into submission.
The footage, shot originally by Southland Conference assistant commissioner Sam Schacter when he was a sports reporter at Shreveport's KTBS-TV, made its national debut a night later on CNNSports and has taken on a youtube.com and sports highlight show life of its own since then. It seems to resurface every time there's a major mascot incident, which for us is a good thing!
Doug Ireland, SID
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