So for those of you who don't know (assuming this is everyone else), the Maryland University women's basketball team, the Lady Terrapins, have a slogan running during the NCAA Women's March Madness tourney...their team slogan is, and I shit you not, "We Eat Kids."
Apparently the slogan was born during a Midnight Madness dance routine, sophomore forward Emery Wallace yelling out "We eat kids!" as a way to keep up the motivation with her teammates. She got it from the infamous Mike Tyson quote to Evander Holyfield back in the 90s. It caught on, even though half the team apparently has no idea what it means. To quote a blogger's interview with freshman center Yemi Oyefuwa:
""Every month I choose a child," she told me. "Sometimes it's one from back home, sometimes it's someone from this country. You try to pick the juicy ones, the ones with nice hair, delicious ones, pretty eyes, because you know, the eyes are the best."
The interview went on and included other members of the team...
"She's not stable," star forward Marissa Coleman pointed out about teammate Emery Wallace. The players started writing it on the white board before games, underneath the three keys provided by the coaching staff. They began putting their fists together and shouting it before leaving the room. They return to the message at halftime, with Wallace tailoring her exact advice based on the first-half performance. "She'll be like, 'We're halfway through the kids' body now, keep going,' " Oyefuwa explained. "It's not like we played bad, you already had the head, you already had the hair."
So the question remains...is this the perfect storm for dead baby jokes?
