[Vote for the Billiken: Best Catholic Mascot]

Sure. Why not? I was mentioned. It took 5 minutes. All in good fun.

And if we meet on the hardwood as my good friend Sader87 hopes, I'll be ready to come over here and back him up!

[Vote for the Billiken: Best Catholic Mascot]

So timeline on this thing is something like this:

-12AM Billiken leads 51% to 49%

-approx 6:30AM this tweet is sent out:

Holy Cross Bally ‏@HCBally4h

Vote again for best Catholic School Mascot. Crusader behind a bit. Tell your friends push him over the top. http://goo.gl/8z6vBL

Granted the Holy Cross Bally account only has 39 followers, so I'm not sure the tweet had much of an effect.

-approx 8:45AM I checked and the "day 2" voting was closed

-approx 10AM the results are announced and the Billiken has lost

Assuming the 6:30ish tweet is correct, then it means the Billiken lost a slim lead somewhere in the last 2 hours of voting. Gut-wrenching loss.

Only 39 Followers, but well connected!

My son is a sophomore at HC and he said between facebook and e-mail, he had about 10 different people prompt him to vote last night. And he doesn't have a Twitter account, so ...

This carny game was rigged. We were ahead until the very end of voting.

This coming from a board with a post giving directions on how to vote multiple times. Hmmmm.

Might the system be smart enough in the end to identify multiple votes from a single computer/IP address or without an IP address at all and discard them? So might the "lead" the Billiken have been a hollow lead???

Seriously, I like the Billiken as it is very unique mascot, but the representation of the Billiken needs a little pizzaz. As drawn it is a bit monochromatic and uninteresting so the impartial vote may have gone to the Crusader and been the difference!

Well done you were a game opponent! Now come vote for the Crusader as you can not allow the conference hopping Xavier Blue Blob to win!