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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2588012, member: 250"] The Angry wave mascot has not been the official mascot for almost 2 decades, though it refuses to die and tons of logo wear are sold with Gumby the Wave, yeah Gumby. every year. But: "[I]Gumby[/I] was replaced with a new pelican mascot, recalling the university seal, and the fact that a pelican was often used in the first half of the century as the emblem of Tulane's athletics teams. The pelican is also the Louisiana state bird and is found on the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Louisiana']state flag[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_state_seal']state seal[/URL]. The name "Riptide" was selected for the performing pelican by the administration after a vote of the student body in which the students actually voted that the pelican be named "Pecker." The pelican mascot name may have been so voted as the student body had also overwhelmingly voted for Poseidon to be the mascot. Poseidon was rejected by the administration and student body government because it could be portrayed as a white male. In 2014, Tulane changed the color of the "wave" above the "T" from a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafoam_green']seafoam green[/URL] to a color closer to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_green']lime green[/URL]." You asked ... sort of. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_Green_Wave"]Tulane Green Wave - Wikipedia[/URL] [/QUOTE]