Hog Wild

One thing that's interested me about university life in Mizzou is watching women's volleyball. My (American) friend Bob and his brother Gary always bring me and Gil (my only Filipino friend here) to watch the games. This is the best team the University has ever had, and they were ranked #7 in the US at some point during the season.

But this is not about the Mizzou Tigers; rather, a team they played against last night, specifically, the Arkansas Razorbacks. Now, that's a nice enough name for an athletic team, but apparently they also call themselves the "Arkansas Hogs" (Hogs, after all, are what Razorbacks are). I don't mean to discriminate against pigs, but I found it amazing that any group would be brave enough to call themselves that. In Philippine collegiate sports, that's just not going to happen. I don't see the UP Maroons, La Salle Green Archers and the Ateneo Blue Eagles competing against, let's say, the PUP Pigs (no offense to PUP, just a random example), or the Beda Baboys (sorry, San Beda, purely an alliterative choice). Maybe they can have "Baboy Spelling" during competitions... "B-A-B-O-Y! Ba-Boy! Ba-Boy! Ba-Boy Kami!!!!!!!"