Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Cutters have nearly 60,000 votes in the USA Today Best High School Mascot poll, but trail by hundreds of thousands to schools in Connecticut and Maine.
With less than three days remaining in the USA Today Top High School Mascot contest, the Cutters prospects look dim. Despite receiving nearly twice as many votes this round as they did in Round 1 (55,079 as of 5 a.m. Tuesday), the Cutters are still down nearly 500,000 votes heading into the poll's final days. The region's top two teams, which account for more than 80 percent of the vote between them, are the Kingswood Oxford Wyverns of West Hartford, Conn., and the Morse Shipbuilders of Bath, Maine. Cutters faithful already have a lot to be proud of for leading the team to an easy state-round victory, but I think we've got a shot at a comeback -- or at least a more respectable showing than 4 percent of the vote. After all, the Shipbuilders…
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Cutters cruised to a first-round win in the USA Today Top High School Mascot competition, which ended Tuesday at 3 p.m.
The Cutters' prospects have looked good for a few days, but now it's finally official: Fair Lawn is home to the best high school mascot in New Jersey. Fair Lawn faithful voted their beloved Cutters to an incredible 30,284-vote victory in the first round of USA Today's Top High School Mascot contest, which finished up Tuesday at 3 p.m. The Garnet Gulls of Point Pleasant Beach got off to an early lead over the Cutters in the contest's first two days before the Fair Lawn community became aware of the contest. As soon as they did, however, it was game over for the Gulls. Within 24 hours of the contest details appearing on this site, Fair Lawn stormed past Point Pleasant Beach and never looked back. The Cutters ended up besting the Garnet Gulls…
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
USA Today has selected Fair Lawn High School as one of five New Jersey schools in consideration for the nation's best high school mascot.
Named for a half-dozen football players who ditched class to catch a movie in Paterson some 70 years ago, the Cutters of Fair Lawn High School possess one of the more unique nicknames of any school in the state, according to USA Today. The Cutters are one of 255 schools across the country -- five from each state and the District of Columbia -- up for the title of "Best High School Mascot" in a USA Today contest that began Monday. The state round of the contest, which pits Fair Lawn against the Phillipsburg Stateliners, Point Pleasant Beach Garnet Gulls, Red Bank Catholic Caseys and Trenton Catholic Iron Mikes, runs until March 5 at 3 p.m. Anyone at least 13 years of age is eligible to vote as many times they like (full disclosure: I've …
Peter Loffman
4:19 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Currently Hartford has 125,000 votes compared to our 9900. Doesn't look good for the second round of voting more ›