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<blockquote data-quote="82EE" data-source="post: 129388444" data-attributes="member: 1677579">Mounties has been used in both official, and unofficial instances as a nickname for the &quot;Mountaineers&quot; sports teams @ West Virginia University for decades. Those of you that actually attended WVU, you may (should) remember that the WVU Student Handbook, provided to you when you enrolled, is named &quot;The Mountie&quot; and has been for a long, long, time. The Debit Card that is provided to current WVU students has bonus $$ provided to them officially know as &quot;Mountie Bounty&quot;. Mounties occurs in numerous written accounts over the years and was often used by Jack Fleming in his flowery descriptions. It has been used as a nickname for a much longer period of time than &quot;Neers&quot;, or &quot;Eers&quot;.&nbsp; It is still used today by WVU &quot;spirit&quot; squads. If you have a personal problem with it fine, don't use it. But anyone that want to use it has many years of history behind them. I have used &quot;Mounties&quot; in the past and will use &quot;Mounties&quot; in the future, sorry if it offends anyone (it should not) - but I am not going to stop.<a href="http://wvucard.wvu.edu/mboffcampus">http://wvucard.wvu.edu/mboffcampus</a><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/mountie-a-complete-a-z-guide-for-the-wvu-student/oclc/575710297">http://www.worldcat.org/title/mountie-a-complete-a-z-guide-for-the-wvu-student/oclc/575710297</a><img src="http://wvhistoryonview.org/cgi/i/image/getimage-idx?viewid=018356.JPG;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-018356;view=image" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CK0JZCwWsAAFKRX.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/77/c2/ce/77c2ce33156924b86e5ca05a473d8ddd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&quot;Maryland @ West Virginia&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3:00 PM Eastern&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Fox Sports 1This is one of those rivalry games that everyone on both sides of the field gets up for and it promises to be a high scoring affair. The Mountaineers have the potential to do some damage in the Big 12 this year if they can maintain the edge they have shown thus far. Skyler Howard leads the nation's most efficient passing attack, but he has yet to face a defense the caliber of the one he will find waiting from Maryland. The Terps are getting it together on offense as well. If Caleb Rowe can keep from throwing passes to the greedy WVU defense this one will be interesting. I'll take the Mounties this time, but it will be much closer than the nearly two touchdown spread some experts are giving.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="82EE, post: 129388444, member: 1677579"] Mounties has been used in both official, and unofficial instances as a nickname for the "Mountaineers" sports teams @ West Virginia University for decades. Those of you that actually attended WVU, you may (should) remember that the WVU Student Handbook, provided to you when you enrolled, is named "The Mountie" and has been for a long, long, time. The Debit Card that is provided to current WVU students has bonus $$ provided to them officially know as "Mountie Bounty". Mounties occurs in numerous written accounts over the years and was often used by Jack Fleming in his flowery descriptions. It has been used as a nickname for a much longer period of time than "Neers", or "Eers". It is still used today by WVU "spirit" squads. If you have a personal problem with it fine, don't use it. But anyone that want to use it has many years of history behind them. I have used "Mounties" in the past and will use "Mounties" in the future, sorry if it offends anyone (it should not) - but I am not going to stop. [URL]http://wvucard.wvu.edu/mboffcampus[/URL] [URL]http://www.worldcat.org/title/mountie-a-complete-a-z-guide-for-the-wvu-student/oclc/575710297[/URL] [IMG]http://wvhistoryonview.org/cgi/i/image/getimage-idx?viewid=018356.JPG;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-018356;view=image[/IMG] [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CK0JZCwWsAAFKRX.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/77/c2/ce/77c2ce33156924b86e5ca05a473d8ddd.jpg[/IMG] " [B]Maryland @ West Virginia 3:00 PM Eastern Fox Sports 1[/B] This is one of those rivalry games that everyone on both sides of the field gets up for and it promises to be a high scoring affair. The Mountaineers have the potential to do some damage in the Big 12 this year if they can maintain the edge they have shown thus far. Skyler Howard leads the nation's most efficient passing attack, but he has yet to face a defense the caliber of the one he will find waiting from Maryland. The Terps are getting it together on offense as well. If Caleb Rowe can keep from throwing passes to the greedy WVU defense this one will be interesting. I'll take the Mounties this time, but it will be much closer than the nearly two touchdown spread some experts are giving." [/QUOTE]

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