The Blue Hose is not all that’s blue in Hoseville.
The Blue Hose is a little odd for a school mascot.
I get that.
But if you say it often enough — “Blue Hose, Blue Hose, Blue Hose” — it becomes the most natural thing in the world like saying, “pancakes, pancakes, pancakes.”
My son is a member of the Presbyterian College football team and their mascot is indeed The Blue Hose.
We were up there on Saturday for their homecoming game.
Lots of blue around.
If you are going to have your hose be a certain color, blue is certainly a great choice for every man, woman, child and bride has something blue.
The school website says the name came from the early 1900’s when sportswriters referred to the team as the “Blue Stockings”.
Throughout the years the name morphed into the Blue Hose and began to align itself with the Scotsman warriors a la . . .
Mel Gibson’s crazed William Wallace in Braveheart. I guess we found out how loony Mel was.
And since long, long ago, when the Protestant Reformation reached the shores of Scotland, the Presbyterian Church eventually became the Church of Scotland — it all works.
It fits together so well, you could almost say it was predestined.
Yes, there was lots of blue hoopla for the Homecoming game.
Unfortunately, the Hose was not victorious.
Leaving the PC faithful, a little — dare I say — blue.
But we recovered enough to take Number 46 out for pizza after the game. Which was not blue, by the way.
What is your school mascot? Can you top the Blue Hose?
Linking up with Greta @Gfunkied and Julie @Mamamash for another Wednesday’s iPPP.
