What is a Chanticleer? Coastal Carolina’s College World Series run has everyone buzzing about the mascot

The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are the hottest team in NCAA baseball — and, frankly, all of sports — seizing the momentum of a shocking 26-game winning streak to earn a berth in the College World Series championship.

Their miraculous run has left the entire baseball universe awestruck, and every fan who has heard about CCU’s romp through the tournament is left with one question first and foremost on their minds…

What in the name of Heihei is a Chanticleer?

Perhaps the key to winning 26 games in a row is to pick a mascot that makes the opposing team spend the first five innings wondering, “Is that even a word?”

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According to CCU’s website, a Chanticleer is defined as a “proud and fierce rooster.”

No matter how old you are, by the time you reach the end of that sentence, your brain will be transported back to sixth grade. Based on that definition alone, the only way the Chanticleer could be any gayer would be if you lifted off the mascot head Scooby Doo-style to reveal Harvey Fierstein.

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What’s more, Coastal Carolina’s site further explained that its unique moniker was “derived from Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales.’”

The easiest way to tell your university is full of intellectual wankers is when it decides, “You know what makes opposing teams tremble in fear? Middle English literature!”

Chaucer himself described the Chanticleer this way:

“His comb was redder than fine coral and turreted like a castle wall, his bill was black and shone like a jet, and his legs and toes were like azure. His nails were whiter than the lily and his feathers were like burnished gold.”

Honestly, at this point, Coastal Carolina should just lean into it and call their teams the Liberaces.

For those wondering how CCU arrived at such a dandified moniker, it wasn’t always this way. Originally, the school’s teams were named the Trojans.

Nope. Nothing gay about that either. Let’s just move on.

Then in the 1960s, Coastal Carolina decided to change its nickname. In that era, the school existed as a branch campus for the University of South Carolina so they elected to rebrand themselves in tribute to their affiliate institution. 

South Carolina’s teams were nicknamed the Gamecocks. Which, as even Pat McAfee is able to deduce, can be further shortened to “Cocks.”

There it is. A Chanticleer is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to write a Barstool article as an English thesis.

It turns out that the only thing gayer than the Chanticleers moniker is the story of how Coastal Carolina chose it.

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