This, friends, is a Crimson Hawk. Maybe you’re like us, and you think this looks like a modern day Thundercat, or some such toy you putzed around with in the 1980s. At any rate, it is also the new nickname for sports teams at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The author to the above link claims - with google as evidence - that a Crimson Hawk is not actually a bird. Does this mean their mascot will be made of legos? Not sure yet.

Worse yet, when you google ‘Crimson Hawks’ you get porn. Specifically, the ‘World’s sexiest, most powerful, and most frequently defeated, humiliated, and ravished superheroine!’

So before the university went ahead and adopted the Crimson Hawk as the new nickname - as it did Friday at the board of trustees meeting - you’d think at least one person in John Sutton Hall would have taken the initiative to find out what exactly a Crimson Hawk is.

A quick Google search leads one to find something rather, um, unique, when you type “Crimson Hawk” into the search box.

The first link you come to is for a Web site of an adults-only cartoon starring a blonde, busty woman named Crimson Hawk. The site claims to be the home of “the world’s sexiest, most powerful and most frequently defeated, humiliated and ravished superheroine.”

No joke. IUP’s student-athletes now share the same name as an adults-only cartoon. Not only that, it’s a cartoon of a “superhero” who is usually embarrassed by the opposition.

Look on the bright side - this is an opportunity for the school to incorporate porn into the school’s athletics program. And you can never, ever, have enough of that.

Trustees Endorse Crimson Hawks As New Nickname, Mascot (IUP News)
Crimson Hawks? That’s for the birds (Indiana Gazette)