Lamest mascot is for U of D. The Blue Hens. Or, as 99% of slower-lower Delaware calls them, Blue Chickens. Because poultry is such a cool mascot.

Anna on July 24, 2008 at 4:47 PM

Anna, I give you… Pomona College’s Cecil Sagehen!

“When Cecil Sagehen chirps,
We’re gonna fracture the foes of Pomona’s might,
When Cecil Sagehen chirps,
We’re gonna wail on their bods for the Blue and White!
Our foes are filled with dread
Whenever Cecil Sagehen flies overhead,
We’re gonna C, we’re gonna H, we’re gonna I-R-P,
When Cecil chirps his way to victory!
CHIRP!”

Great place to get edumacated, but as we were a Division III school, there wasn’t much to cheer about, athletically speaking. ;-)

Big S on July 24, 2008 at 4:09 PM

Yes, Danbury! Looked it up to be sure of what happened, and the owner was indicted for fraud for putting some players and players’ wives on the payroll of his trash hauling companies.

That was one stupid looking mascot.

Which one is the Gay one?…

dentalque on July 24, 2008 at 8:50 PM

My collie says:

The flaming one.

Collie, haven’t I TOLD you to stop channeling Jerry Falwell?

What demented mind conceived the Philly Fanatic?

It’s the Phillie Phanatic, phool!

Via Forbes, everyone’s favorite sports resource: Phanatic the best mascot in sports.

Where are the TeleTubbies when you need them

Back in TubbyLand, turning those adorable fat bunnies into TubbyCustard…

They ain’t got nuttin on The Dumples.

- The Cat

MirCat on July 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM

The two best mascots (not the least bit lame, intentionally or otherwise):
1. Sparty
2. The Jolly Dumple

We were better off as the Violets. It’s not like anyone cared about our sports anyway.

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What I’d like to know is why there is the trend now to have mascotS and not just a mascot? Instead of 2-5 mediocre/crappy mascots, why not put the creative energy into 1 decent mascot?

tell me again about the part where jayne gets knocked out by a 90 pound girl because i can listen to that all day.

Ed, you get the “This video really is just being put in for randomness, but, it’s Firefly/Serenity, thus, this post is now 50% more awesome” award

Razgriez on July 24, 2008 at 4:46 PM

I’d like to thank the Academy …

No! Never enough “Naruto”! :D

Those all look like they’re from the “Hidden Sausage Village”.

Spanglemaker on July 24, 2008 at 3:26 PM

Sasuke!!! !!!! >:D

Wonder what happened to Seth Stevenson to make him so bitter about the Atlanta games. Backwater of a town? Terrorist attack? Little bit of overkill there for a story about mascots, of all things.

Ferris on July 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM

Who does this guy think he is? A backwater of a town? The Atlanta Olympics had a lot of problems, but it did great things for our city as an international city.

warrenmr on July 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM

Atlanta is in the South. For a Slate columnist, that is simply an unpardonable transgression. You could move Portland, or San Francisco, or even Paris itself to the South, leaving it intact, and it would be a “backwater”.

held in a backwater of a town smaller than, I’m not kidding, at least 25 Chinese cities you’ve never even heard of.)

Hopefully elites will keep thinking this way and stop coming to Atlanta and messing up traffic! :)

The University of Georgia has their bulldog Uga, which is a real bulldog with some personality

Most people would like to live as well as Uga; but since he is the BEST mascot EVER! it’s o.k. ;D

P.S. “Izzy” was know in Atlanta as “Hey you, Izzy that your leftover toothpaste or mine on the sink?”

aunursa on July 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM

Now the Giants’ mascot is “Lou Seal,” a reference to the old Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals. And we do have seals in the Bay. Still. :)

Let’s not forget the 1996 Atlanta mascot, known variously as

A HUGE EMBARRASSMENT TO Atlanta….

The Olympic mascots are cute, they’re reminiscent of the five element theory of TCM. And yeah, the green one is a rip-off of Link. Still not watching the Olympics, though. I don’t support network tv or ChiComs.

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