It's time to "phase out" Osceola and Renegade...
CoralGablesNole!!
4/7/2014
"We all love what Osceola and Renegade have meant to the University over the years, they are without doubt, the most famous mascot in college athletics.
However, times change. Osceola and Renegade have had a good run, and are still popular, but lets get real here...
It's just too expensive to keep a live horse for home games and bowl games. Also, neither can travel to our regular season road games, leaving us with no mascot presence on the road.
Add to that the amount of money we spend on kerosene to light the spear and on hay to feed the horse.
Not to mention how difficult it is for Nike to reproduce this image on merchandise.
Therefore, in close consultation with the Seminole tribe, FSUTPX, and other offcials from Nike, I'm proud to announce our new football mascot: Cimarron!
Starting this fall, in lieu of Osceola and Renegade planting the spear at pregame, Cimarron will run out of smoke (provided by fire extinguishers) to the new seminole logo at midfield and conduct a "garnet!" "gold!" cheerleading routine with the home crowd.
This will be similar to what you see at UF home games, but tweaked by Nike to fit our needs. Nike swears by this routine as a crowd pleaser and we are confident it will grow on all of us.
The financial impacts of this change will be positive for FSU and Nike for years to come.
The Cimarron logo is easy and cheap to reproduce, and while Osceola and Renegade were limited to the field, Cimarron will be everywhere!
We at FSU recognize that the change will take some getting used to. But Nike has assured us that we will love the new mascot and pregame routine in no time.
We believe that now is the time to capitalize on FSU's recent national championship and heisman trophy.
In this new world of sports marketing you must adapt or die. We believe this is the right time and the right adaptation.
Go Noles, and Go Nike! "
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