We’ve long thought we — the Syracuse Orange, Otto the Orange, our whole “orange” obsession — were unique in this world.
Other schools wear orange, mind you (some of them poorly). But Syracuse’s use of an actual orange as a mascot and a full lean-in on the color and the fruit is something no one else does. Or at least no else in America does...
But apparently there is another very ORANGE team, in Japan. Credit to Caitlin Sanders who originally found the Hosei Orange on Twitter last night and launched the Syracuse corner of the web into a frenzy.