If you started a sports team, what would the colours and mascot be?

Louis Catorze already supports a football team – Sunderland – whose nickname is The Black Cats and whose mascots are, erm, black cats. You can’t get much better than that. However, their online shop sells dog collars but not cat ones, which is either a massive oversight or a sign that cats won’t be bossed by anyone:

Où sont les chats?

Sunderland traditionally play in red and white, but Catorze doesn’t care about colours; he’s just grateful that football compels spectating men to sit down and watch television, because this guarantees him some comfortable male laps for at least ninety minutes.

Male laps, you say? Sa Maj is all ears.

However, if he were to start a football team consisting of just cats, he would have Olly the British Blue as his number one keeper and Boots, usurper stepbrother of his frère-from-another-mère, Antoine, as his first choice centre-half. Have a look here to see how Olly’s Cat Daddy – also a goalkeeper – trained him.

As for Boots, his solid stature and zero-tolerance approach to impingers would make him an ideal blocker, although he’s a versatile player and can attack as well as defend.

He’s now lost five of his six Chelsea collars, so maybe blue ISN’T the colour?
The Reds can’t get past this rock-solid defence.

Managers aren’t allowed on the pitch during matches, but Catorze, who practically INVENTED doing the opposite of what people expect or want, wouldn’t be able to help himself. And we imagine he would look just like this cat, whose flatlining ears indicate that he wasn’t too impressed with this particular performance:

Picture from foxsports.com.au.

Is your cat a potential sportsperson? If so, what would they do/play?

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34 responses to “Purry Saint-Germeow”

  1. Bipolar's gf avatar

    Popsie loves balls. If she could talk, she would just go on about balls. She steals them from little kids playing with them in public and will find any balls hidden anywhere. I don’t know if that would make her good or bad at football. Of course, Popsie is a d.o.g. rather than a cat. The cats couldn’t give a fig about balls or football. Is it food? No? Not interested.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Stealing balls from kids! That’s hilarious!

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  2. Lou Carreras avatar

    Of course cats don’t like collars. A great collar escape artist Sabrina ( our small female kitten) explained it to me. ” But it’s alright for dogs to be in bondage…keeps them to their proper station in life!”

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      How many collars has she lost?

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      1. Lou Carreras avatar

        To dater I think it’s three. Keeping count is hard because we sometime find them and whe “loses” them again. She seems to like th current silver one with the faancy name tag. My wife thinks that she is a Bling loving kitty and likes fancy clothes.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          I am not surprised that Madame is so fancy!

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  3. M - avatar

    A few years back a black cat wandered onto the Giants’ football stadium – helping the Dallas Cowboys defeat them 37-18.

    The Cowboys have a Lucky Charm

    Black cats ARE lucky charms.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Brilliant! And that second picture makes him look as if he’s levitating!

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      1. M - avatar

        I know, right?

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      2. M - avatar

        In that shot, did you notice the blades of grass in his front feet? He was booking.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Booking?

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          1. M - avatar

            Runnin’ like Hell!

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Thank you for this great text.
    I love your way of writing and this new post is brilliant.
    And thank you too for the pictures and the funny video.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Merci! Olly is hilarious, isn’t he?

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    2. mmechapeau avatar
      mmechapeau

      In today’s picture, Louis shows only one fang. Did you notice it?

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        He often only shows one. It’s because one of his cheeks/jowls hangs lower than the other.

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    My cats are olympic sleepers so if there was a sport devoted to that, they are in!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Olympic sleepers! 🤣🤣🤣

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  6. Dr. CaSo avatar

    I think Rosie would be amazing at a game like tennis. She’s incredible strong and fast! She can hit you with her paws and knock you off your chair, and she can catch any fly or mosquito or bug so quickly you barely see her, it’s incredible! Her secret name is probably Rosie Williams 😉

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Ooh, strong AND fast! That’s an excellent combination. (Catorze can be freakishly strong when you’re trying to wrestle something off him or get him into his transportation pod, but fast he ain’t.

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  7. Bismarck avatar

    My cat is definitely a goal keeper, either for football or for handball. He likes jumping and stopping little balls. He is also able to catch a fly at human height…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Wow, what a clever boy! He sounds amazing!

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  8. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Ollie is an amazing goal keeper !

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Isn’t he incredible?

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  9. cat9984 avatar

    Snoops and Kommando watch American football, but they refuse to participate in any way, shape, or form

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Do they have a favourite team?

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      1. cat9984 avatar

        The Detroit Lions. They’re not abysmal for the first time in years

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  10. cathysrealcountrygardencom avatar

    SPORT! RUNNING ABOUT WITH NO POINT! No cat could comprehend such a concept- give me food and a warm lap and then sod off.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh no, they absolutely don’t get the point. But if it means there will be MEN, Catorze is well and truly in.

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  11. Amca avatar
    Amca

    How did the cat know the location of the football field it’s amazing ya

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      They’re weirdly psychic beasts. They surprise us with this kind of thing all the time!

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      1. Amca avatar
        Amca

        😁🙌

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