Ypsilanti High chooses new mascot..........The PHOENIX

OK, oddly YCD is OK with this choice. Yes, Braves is better but instead of something horrible, Phoenix is a name that can be worked with, you've got the bird angle the fire angle so you have some room to have some fun.

Now, YCD may have to show SOME what a Phoenix really is and here is ONE conception of the mythical firebird.

So there is ONE artist impression. Now does it come in purple and gold?

Seriously, the student choice of Royals was the BEST replacement choice but some administrators cannot stand it when THEY don't get to choose FOR kids so here we are with Phoenix. We'll see about this but it COULD have been worse, much worse if Board member Andy Fanta had his way, Ypsilanti would have been saddled with the HORRIBLE his choice of, get this, "Olympians".

"Olympians could permeate the totality of our school district," said Fanta. Yeah, so can a bad sewer line, Andy