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80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:47 am
by appdaze


Anyone got a favorite yosef, potentially with a picture?

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:00 pm
by scatman77
Along this same line: when will we ever have Yikas ring tone?

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:01 pm
by Rekdiver
Why do they not show the Students who were Real Yosef’s?????

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:20 pm
by AppGrad1
scatman77 wrote:
Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:00 pm
Along this same line: when will we ever have Yikas ring tone?
Download the Zedge app. It's on there.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:37 pm
by appstate24
Rekdiver wrote:
Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:01 pm
Why do they not show the Students who were Real Yosef’s?????
In sticking with today’s climate, it might be offensive to us mountain folk. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Kidding, I do wish we had both, a real person, and our current mascot.

GO APPS!!

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:39 pm
by AppWyo
What we really need is a Yosefine or Ms. Yosef.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:22 am
by 9Steelman
this also marks 50th year of Yosef Club

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:30 am
by BambooRdApp
50 Yosef Club
80 Yosef
150 Boone
Should be one big party in Boone🤣

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:57 am
by Yosef84
Let me ask for a clarification. Is this the 80th anniversary of "Yosef" being the name given to the mascot? It seems to line up with the timing of that happening, but I thought the Mountaineer was used as the mascot prior to the Yosef name being assigned by the yearbook staff.

OK...I did pull up the article on AppStateSports and it did confirm that Appalachian was called the Mountaineers previously but hap no official mascot prior to the first appearance of Yosef in the 1942 annual, which was not intended to be lasting, but obviously caught on (paraphrasing).

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:52 am
by WVAPPeer
Damn - there is actually someone on here older than me :>)

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:12 am
by AppWyo
I hope no one ever decides to come after our mascot and team name, because it is not politically correct anymore.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:54 am
by appstate24
AppWyo wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:12 am
I hope no one ever decides to come after our mascot and team name, because it is not politically correct anymore.

I hope so too, but...

Who in their right mind would have thought George Washington would become politically incorrect :roll: :roll: . But that seems to be the case, they are changing their mascot from the “Colonials.” Apparently that’s not enough, they want to remove our first President’s name as well.

We live in a clown world.

GO APPS!!

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:09 am
by AppStFan1
AppWyo wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:12 am
I hope no one ever decides to come after our mascot and team name, because it is not politically correct anymore.
You may want to edit that post so you don't give a small group of angry indoctrinated students something to go after. lol

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:51 pm
by appfanjj
AppWyo wrote:
Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:39 pm
What we really need is a Yosefine or Ms. Yosef.
There was a Yosefine in the late 70s. She was and still is a friend of mine. Her husband was Yosef.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:24 pm
by WVAPPeer
appstate24 wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:54 am
AppWyo wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:12 am
I hope no one ever decides to come after our mascot and team name, because it is not politically correct anymore.

I hope so too, but...

Who in their right mind would have thought George Washington would become politically incorrect :roll: :roll: . But that seems to be the case, they are changing their mascot from the “Colonials.” Apparently that’s not enough, they want to remove our first President’s name as well.

We live in a clown world.

GO APPS!!
Don't know where you got that piece of info - I went to the source - Fox

The committee outlined why those who favored the nickname supported it, saying it was a term for those who lived in the American colonies before the U.S. became independent and for those who fought for independence. The committee said that for those who opposed it, "Colonials means colonizers who stole land and resources from Indigenous groups, killed or exiled Native peoples and introduced slavery into the colonies."

The committee said George Washington "firmly rejected" the term colonial, and the term itself "was not used during the 1607-1776 Colonial era, and it did not become popular until the Colonial Revival period of the late 19th and 20th centuries."

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:02 pm
by AppWyo
If they do away with Yosef and Mountaineers we can always be the Appalachian Yourselfs.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:44 pm
by HighlandsApp
Why does every other thread on this board end up becoming ranting from Fox cable daily talking points???? Y'all all got way too much time on your hands. Go get a job.... :lol:

The current Yosef is the best. The 1980s was the worst.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:49 am
by AppWyo
HighlandsApp wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:44 pm
Why does every other thread on this board end up becoming ranting from Fox cable daily talking points???? Y'all all got way too much time on your hands. Go get a job.... :lol:

The current Yosef is the best. The 1980s was the worst.
That is the Yosef I measure all other Yosefs against. I have yet to see another Yosef that can bend his fingers back and touch the back of his hand with them.

Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:06 am
by ArmantiWaterSafety
AppWyo wrote:
Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:39 pm
What we really need is a Yosefine or Ms. Yosef.
Here she is in all her glory. Came across this in an old App State yearbook I found at an AirBnB.


Re: 80 years of Yosef as the mascot

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 10:51 am
by AppWyo
ArmantiWaterSafety wrote:
Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:06 am
AppWyo wrote:
Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:39 pm
What we really need is a Yosefine or Ms. Yosef.
Here she is in all her glory. Came across this in an old App State yearbook I found at an AirBnB.

That's what I am talkin about!