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Biggest dog-gone upset in A&M history
Published: 12/22/2009 12:04 PM
Last Modified: 12/22/2009 12:08 PM

Sports has gone to the dogs. Or is it the other way around?
The American Kennel Club, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary, joined forces with PawNation.com to compile a list of the top 125 dogs in popular culture. And sports mascots crashed the party.
No. 1 on the list was, of course, Snoopy.
But No. 2 was Reveille, the collie that serves as Texas A&M’s mascot. Reveille finished ahead of Scooby Doo, Toto, Benji and Old Yeller, providing A&M with -- my opinion -- the biggest upset in school history.
Is it too late for a recount? What’s Reveille ever done except bark at Eddie Sutton?
A&M’s pup has never solved a mystery, melted a witch (give Toto an assist for that one) or chased bears and rabid hogs away from Arliss and Travis.
How did this travesty of justice come about? Popular vote, which explains why the U.S. picks presidents by way of electoral college. People are too goofy to be trusted to do the right thing in popular votes.
According to a press release issued Tuesday, AKC experts created the initial list of pop culture dogs and ranked them accordingly. The public voted each week, from Sept. 15 through Dec. 14, in a series of 11 polls on PawNation.com. Nearly 76,000 people cast votes and my guess is A&M fans stuffed the ballot box.
Among other sports mascots on the list were Georgetown’s Jack the Bulldog (No. 8), Georgia’s UGA (No. 12), Boston University’s Rhett the Boston Terrier (No. 48), Yale’s Handsome Dan (No. 58), Southern Illinois’ Saluki (No. 95) and Fresno State’s Timeout the Bulldog (No. 112).
Lists like these are great for sparking debate, just like the all-decade sports lists that will be published in our Sunday sports section.
My biggest non-sports complaint with the dog list? Superman’s dog, Krypto, was nowhere to be found. Maybe there’s hope for Streaky the Super Cat, Comet the Super Horse and Beppo the Super Monkey if pop culture lists are compiled for other critters.
The complete dogs in pop culture rankings can be found on www.akc.org.


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