Biggest Guy is starting UVA in a few weeks (I’ll be there next week, who’s close to there in the Blogosphere?), and one thing has tormented me for the entire time he’s been there (he’s been working in a research lab for over a year, trying the place out before deciding to go there). How does the school…mascot Cavaliers (makes sense, Southern light cavalry and all)…wind up with the nickname ‘Wahoos’??
And, aimlessly surfing the blogs this morning, I discovered…wait for it…the WahooPundit. Email has been sent, and an answer anxiously awaited.
Date: 08/10/2002 00:00:00 AM
Having just graduated from UVA (I still have the e-mail address, even), I suppose I can explain this.Supposedly, the wahoo is a fish that can drink twice its own weight in water (Or five times, or thirty times. You can make it up).You get it? UVA students drink a lot! Hilarious, huh? I have no idea if there is such a fish as this, but that’s the story.
Date: 08/09/2002 00:00:00 AM
Want to know? It’s a . . . naaaah. You’ll have to wait for WahooPundit. Here’s a clue, though: you won’t find ’em on land.
Date: 08/09/2002 00:00:00 AM
No, I actually heard this story once. A bunch of frat boys just started chanting “Wa hoo wah” one day at a game. I guess it stuck.At least that’s the story I’ve heard. Two UVA grads told me it, but I imagine on something like that there are plenty of folk tales.
Date: 08/09/2002 00:00:00 AM
Wahoo—Richmond? Meryl Yourish?