SDSU to reassess new emphasis on traditional Aztec symbolism in wake of recent gang-rape charges

Cover Your Az-tec?

Clockwise from upper left: new SDSU football helmet, featuring Aztec calendar, Sons of Montezuma T-shirt that just maybe references human sacrifice, Mother Goddess Toci, to whom women were sacrificed by being flayed alive after being sexually abused, illustration of Aztec human sacrifice.

“Look, nobody’s suggesting that our team uniforms and school mascot actually led anybody to commit a gang rape,” says SDSU Football Brand Manager Sarah Booster. “But the descriptions that are coming out about the alleged events of that evening last October with three Aztec players and a drunk 17-year old aren’t pretty. Piercings and earrings torn out…geez. So yeah, we’re reassessing our emphasis on the Aztec calendars, which helped to dictate the times and seasons for human sacrifice. It may be that it is, at the moment, literally not a good look.”

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