What's the worst mascot (personified) you ever heard of?

[jmowreader]

For me, it was my mother's high school's mascot.

She went to Bonners Ferry High School in the early 1950s, and their teams were the Badgers. Someone had the bright idea that the school needed a mascot.

At that time they either didn't have or couldn't afford a badger suit for one of the students to wear, so a handful of the boys got a live trap, went up by the Canadian border and caught a live badger. Which they proceeded to take back to the school and house in a large pen.

Beer had to be involved because Oxycontin hadn't been invented yet.

The badger is, pound for pound, probably the most vicious animal in North America. More vicious, even, than the Two-Headed Crocodile. Grizzly bears are scared of badgers. Until they went out in the woods and caught this fucking nightmare of an animal, none of them knew it.

And this particular specimen was even more pissed-off than your standard-issue badger. It was kicking people's asses even with the pen door shut. They fed it by literally throwing food at it.

The school had finally had enough of this thing's shit and instructed the people who caught it to haul it back into the woods. They opened the cage door with a really long stick; the badger chased them for about fifteen minutes before he ambled off into the woods.

[jus_the_facts]

1. My high schools mascot was/is Johnny REB......

.....The Mighty REBELS....complete with monster confederate flags everywhere as well!! :evilfrown:

[Bronco69]

2. ROFLMAO!

Now THAT is a funny story! :-)

[Donkeyboy75]

I hate the Cleveland Browns

and their stupid mascot, Rover Cleveland.

[Donkeyboy75]

3. dupe

dammit

[morningglory]

4. Near here, Carrabelle, FL, was always the Carrabelle Mullets, till they

got uppity and sophistocated. I was watching the local news out of Dothan today and the Wallace State Governors were playing the Lurleen B. Wallace xxxxxxx's. What a hoot.

[lazarus]

13. Lurleen B Wallace Saints

I know, because I got an AA there.

[kcwayne]

5. Purdue Boilermakers

Who wants a knucklehead for a mascot, and what is a Boilermaker anyway?

Purdue Pete

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. Well its a whisky drink...

as well as a train

[jmowreader]

17. A boilermaker is a person who makes boilers

I hit Purdue's website and saw that the school was founded to provide "agricultural and mechanical arts education." Building steam power systems would qualify as mechanical arts; in MET 220, Professor Heather Cooper will teach you how to design a boiler, and what you learned in MET 142 will enable you to build one. As the boiler remains one of the most important technologies in the world, and new ones are being created all the time, a boilermaker is still a very important person.

Or you can just throw a shot of whiskey into a glass of beer and call it good.

[PragMantisT]

6. The Trojans

uh, dumbass, they were obliterated! By Greeks no less.

[lolly]

7. shhh!

Don't tell them that!

[FarmerOak]

8. Here in San Diego,

When the Padres were owned by a group headed by Hollywood producer Tom Werner, a mascot was created known as "Bluepper" (pronounced BLOO-per.) This was, without a doubt, the stoopidest mascot I've ever seen. It was the Phillie Phanatic, without the charm.

Of course, Werner was also responsible for inflicting the Cosby and Roseanne shows upon the world, so we sort of got off easy.

[lolly]

10. The Pepperdine Wave

I think they use a shark or something now, but I remember going to a UCLA/Pepperdine volleyball game and seeing this weird person in a blue bodysuit with blue and white wings flapping off or it and a blue batman-like mask. He (she?) ran around the edge of the court with his arms outstretched like a kid playing airplane.

I thought he was supposed to be some kind of blue bat or something. Took me until the end of the game to figure out he was supposed to be a "wave."

[PittPoliSci]

11. hahahahah lmao!!!

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

[cosmicdot]

12. nothing against anteaters but ...

University of California, Irvine
"the anteaters"

Go, anteaters, Go



does it work?

:shrug:

[salonghorn70]

Sooners, Aggies

HOOK 'EM HORNS

[salonghorn70]

14. Sooners, Aggies

HOOK 'EM HORNS

[GOPisEvil]

18. Booooooo!

Gig 'em! :thumbsup:

;-)

On edit - we can agree that the Sooners suck, though. :7

[ForrestGump]

15. The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs

Actually, I love it, and I think that those darned hippies up there are proud of how dire their collegiate sports programs (at least the big, traditional ones) are.

Go Banana Slugs!!



The Fighting Banana Slugs!!!

[GOPisEvil]

19. Fiat Slug!

I have one of their t-shirts. I wore it this weekend in fact.

[vajraroshana]

16. probably my highschool's but it's sooo stupid you have to read

Ok, I guess I won't be that anonymous anymore because there weren't that many of us.

But I went to high school at Arab High (Arab, Alabama). That's pronounced Ay-rab. The city was supposed to be named Arad, after some guy named Arad Thompson, but the state messed up and it ended up as "Arab".

So, you can guess what our football team was called: the Arabian Knights.

And can you guess what our mascot was?

Did you guess an Arabian Knight?

Well, you'd be wrong. The "logo" for our team was an armored English Knight; but our mascot was: a guy dressed up as a Spanish Conquistador! Go figure.

[terrya]

20. Dennis Miller...mascot of his heartthrob, George W. Bush.

Dennis is so in love with him...and it ain't pretty.