Rodger Sherman
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415 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 29 Jan
Rodger Sherman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Are you familiar? Do you know the mascot? Do you know the mascot of the Akron Zips?
There's a kangaroo, correct? And do you know any other details?
You know zip about them? Jesus Christ. I didn't plan that. I'm just really funny.
Akron primarily produces two things, rubber and LeBron James. And at some point in the 1920s or 30s, The rubber companies also produce zippers. And like this is like this was like new technology at the time. Zippers are kind of one of those things that I assumed had been around for hundreds of years.
But like you watch like movies set in the 1800s and they all have like elaborate buckles and stuff. They're not right. Like there aren't zippers there. Like we invented zippers at some point. There was new technology and the people in Akron were very excited about it so much so.
And I think it's associated with the rubber, like they were making rubber shoes with zippers on them or something like that.
Which is separate from Goodyear, which is also a tire company based in Akron, Ohio. And they have the Goodyear blimp there. I flew in the Goodyear blimp. I'm getting off topic here. When I was in Akron, they let me fly in the Goodyear blimp wearing this t-shirt. Of course they did. Anyway, so they named the team the Zippers. Zippers. later shortened to Zips to celebrate Akron's zippers.
And they were like, what mascot do we have that we can, you know, signify the zipper? So they decided to make a kangaroo with a pouch with a zipper on it. Which, this pouch does not seem... I don't see a zipper. But originally, the pouch was zipped, you know, keep your babies from falling out, etc. But here's what I think is great about this. Only female kangaroos have pouches. Yes.
Male kangaroos do not. So they were, I believe, one of two Division I schools whose mascot is explicitly female. The other being the Delaware Blue Hens. Yes. But which, you know, there's so many Gamecocks and Roosters. And the default is to make your mascot a guy, even if it's...
And North Carolina has some giant balls. Huge balls.
Just big old balls.
I believe so. I know that Akron is the only one in FBS football, like of the top tier. I'm pretty confident there are no other explicitly female mascots out there.
Normally, when a school has a mascot, it's either male or, like, at some cases, like, Florida, they will have, like, or NC State, they have the male and the female mascot, and there's always a really weird, like, dynamic.
Baylor has a male and a lady, like, so, and they have to signify that one of them is male. And that one is just like a default version of the animal. Like Albert the gator just looks like an alligator walking on two legs. Mr. Wolf just looks like a wolf walking on two legs. And then the female version, like they always have lipstick.
Which is not actually a thing that you put on animals.
Yes, yes, yes. And they're always either like, there's always like a weird backstory where they're like either married or siblings.
But I'm just glad that Akron, when they came up with this mascot in the 40s and 50s, were laying out, you know, a vision for female sports fandom, that you can be a lady kangaroo, and they didn't lipstick her up or put her in weird clothing. Right, I wouldn't even know. You wouldn't even know. It's just, there's not that many differences in the wild between... Although she is gyrating.
Are you saying that that's... I've seen some male mascots gyrate.
You went to the kangaroo, Papa? I'm just saying.
The lady bears. The lady volunteers. The lady vols, the lady cocks. Wait, is it really the lady cocks? No, they go by game cocks, but there's merch that says lady cocks. People say lady cocks. That's pretty cool. I should probably buy one of those. Yeah, I was going to say that. That sounds popular. I would definitely buy one.
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