Trade Blaze

During tonight’s game he tricked the Buck’s mascot into getting shot and tied onto a car to get presumably eaten later by country folk, which should have been awesome, but his lack of character and charisma made the video rather morbid. I don’t know where I’m going with this, but yeah, Blaze needs to go.

Blaze is just the worst.

Replace is with a ferocious looking kiwi bird. Like this:

Grrrrrr. Intimidating!!

Trailblazers.

A Mascot Duo.

Since we’re the show in the NW now I say we euthanize Blaze and replace him with Bigfoot.

And to add insult to injury he makes $100k a year doing that mascot thing. Ughh

with a very large house cat

Lewis and Clark were just lost.

Another, I dont like Blaze post! I was certain all adults approved!

and THEY don’t even like Blaze. So that shows you how much sucks as a mascot.

But, i rec the housecat post. I’d love to just have a big ol fat cat in a blazers jersey just kicking it up in the press box or something. kinda like the rally monkey.

The generic mascot from the 90s really fits with Portland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_9CzLCbkY

Everything you say is true, and I felt the same way you do for a long time, until I took a good look around the league. As lame as Blaze is, the Blazers could do MUCH worse. Check out the mascot for the Wizards, Magic, or Nets and tell me you don’t agree!

Right before Christmas you would lobby to send Blaze The Trail Cat to the Unemployment Line? How very Scrooge like. May you be visited by the ghosts of LaRue Martin, Sam Bowie and Greg Oden….then may you awaken Christmas morning to buy everyone a Wesley Matthews jersey….

Blaze is alright.

The OP says they can’t imagine a less creative character to represent the team, then suggests an armless version of the pinwheel? A walking foam version of your logo? I can’t imagine anything less creative or boring than that.

Keep Blaze. Blaze is fine.

My suggestion is that you can have more than one mascot. Who says you can only have one? I say we add Gauze The Injury Trail Dog….a character that would loosely look like McGruff, but sporting a cast, walking on inflatable crutches and wrapped in various places in bandages.

A realationship between Blaze and Gauze could be created. (Think Itchy and Scratchy).

We could probably convince a soccer mom to be our mascot.

;)

are lame unless you’re under 12

I say replace all of those fans with people who actually seem excited about the game of basketball and those who ply it as a trade, and we won’t notice how lame Blaze is.

But yeah—Oregon has plenty of ferocious animals, including cats, to choose from, so the Blazers hardly needed to invent Chester the Cheetah’s cranked out cousin to fill the position of cat-related mascot.

Krang mentioned the famed duo “Itchy and Scratchy” above.

It’s surely been mentioned before, but basically Blaze is Poochie.

That is, a generic corporate creation. He’s got attitude! He’s edgy! He’s hip-hop! And he surfs! Um .. what else do we think kids like?

If the scene where the poor beleaguered artist is made to draw a generic looking creature in sunglasses while management gives bad suggestions over his shoulder isn’t exactly like the making of Blaze, then I’ll eat my hat.

Portland deserves way better. And it’s a city with actual original talent to draw from.

1. Retire Blaze.
2. Hold a contest and/or auditions with open submissions
3. Don’t Frankenstein them into corporate mystery meat
4. Let people vote on a winner.

Or just go mascot-free for a while until a worthy idea comes along.

Why do we need a dance team, a gymnastics squad, and a mascot?

For a long time, I thought it was a dog.

I have always felt that Blaze is incredibly lame. Completely cheeseball but not even successful in that respect. Successful cheese? Maybe not ever. I don’t know.

But anyway I don’t know what Blaze’s target audience is supposed to be. Blaze seems to be lame from practically every perspective.

Start a petition. Yes. Sign me up as being on board for Lewis & Clark. Honestly I just can’t see that happening. Our culture is too dumbed down to even begin to appreciate something like having Lewis & Clark as our team’s mascot. Could you imagine, though? They’d have beards and wear rawhide coats with fringes. They’d carry hatches and axes and old firearms with them. That’d be totally cool. They’d get lots of national face time when ESPN is in town to broadcast games. Oh yeah, also, they could occasionally have other members of the Lewis & Clark expedition with them. Think of it: one game they’d have Sacagawea & her baby rockin the Rose Garden with them; the next game they’d have that black dude who was Clark’s slave (or former slave, or whatever he was). That’d go over really well with our progressive racially diverse population, wouldn’t it?

I say go for it. Send the petition over to the Blazers’ marketing dept. Get rid of Blaze and adopt Lewis & Clark as our mascots! After all, we are the freaking TRAIL BLAZERS, right? What more quintessential TRAIL BLAZERS are there than our old pals LEWIS & CLARK??