An American Indian Chief who does a dance at halftime, makes thousands of people yell and scream and is otherwise non-existent during any other part of the athletic contest is not a mascot.
Mascots are jokes, usually.
I can't figure it out. It's time for me to graduate. I know this because I get dumber every time I read the student opinions section of the paper. Thursday's writings in particular probably dropped about eight points off my IQ alone. But ya know, maybe the Chief conflict is a good one.