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The origin of the hand sign is depressing: "During her transport from Houston to Austin, one of the fingers on Shasta's paw was severed when the cage door was closed. As the University of Texas partisans and players caught wind of the accident, they mimicked the animal by bending their thumb over the ring finger against their palm. This gesture implied that the Cougars were invalids. The Cougars would go on to lose the game 28-7."
A poor tortured animal looses a "finger".... and they make a hand sign out of it.
So let me see if I get this:
- Houston's handlers were so incompetent they severed the finger of their own mascot.
- They went on to get blown away during the game in Texas.
- The hand symbol was created by a rival school to mock them.
Today they proudly use it themselves?