What is a tarblooder?

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I wanna know what a Glenville tarblooder is?Please no racist comments.

Answer 1

MASCOTS, PART II: Ohio State's starting quarterback, Troy Smith, and promising freshman receiver Ted Ginn Jr. are both products of Cleveland's Glenville High School.

The school's nickname is Tarblooders.

A "tarblooder" is a railroad term, referring to the workers who laid down the heavy ties and cemented them with tar. They were considered hard-working and dedicated men who went far beyond the pale in doing their jobs.

"A tarblooder to me is one of the most, if not the most, creative high school mascots in the country," Smith said. "I don't know another team who has the tarblooders as their mascot. There's a lot of eagles, there's a lot of tigers, there's a lot of panthers.

"But there's only one tarblooder."

Answer 2

Glenville Tarblooders

Answer 3

Almost but not quite! You left out the most important part...The workers who swung the sledge hammers driving the sp[ikes into the Railroad Ties would often work with their shirt sleeves rolled up but most of the time with no shirts on at at all. The "Steel Spike" was dipped in boiling hot tar and as they hit that spike to drive it into the tie, hot tar would shoot out in many directions. If you were in the way of it it would often burn the skin of the shirtless workers and most times "draw blood!" hence the name "TARBLODDER" When the Railroad lines were being laid along Bratenahl just north of The Glenville Community, the Blacks who laid those tracks coined the term "TARBLOODER" Famous Tarblooder's Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of the Character Superman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman Ron O'neal "Who stared in the block buster hit "SUPER FLY" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Fly_%28film%29 and Broderick "Steve" Harvey, The Steve Harvey Show

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What is a tarblooder?
I wanna know what a Glenville tarblooder is?Please no racist comments.