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The Top 25 Pro Sports Mascot Ability Rankings
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Let's be real—power-ranking sports mascots is a slippery gradient. What makes a mascot corking is as much nearly the audition as it is nearly the franchise it symbolizes. This list is but one way of looking at a bunch of people dressed insanely.
The reason power-ranking sports mascots is such a subjective exercise is that the difference betwixt awesome and awful is in the eye of the beholder. Possibly you lot love funky birds and I merely desire to gaze into the frozen stare of baseball game with a confront.
The point is: My list is non necessarilyyourlist; and that'south okay. You tin can find greatness in "cute" or the hilariously baroque. Mascot love is all-time left undefined.
These are the acme 25 pro mascots in sports right now.
25. Raymond
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Team: Tampa Bay Rays
Mascot:Raymond
In January 2014, Rays mascot, the not-so-cleverly named "Raymond," was among the nominees for the about prestigious accolade in mascots, "Most Crawly Mascot," awarded by the Cartoon Network annually since 2011. Plain the whole matter was rigged, though, because Raymond ended up losing out to L.A. Kings mascot Bailey.
Subsequently all, Raymond isn't but a mascot, he's an "interactive, improvisational, sports comedian," per his mentor. In 2013, a Buzzfeed community member called him the all-time in the biz and made a pretty convincing instance. Although he'due south been known to cross the line every at present and again, Raymond remains a fan favorite in Tampa, having danced his way into fans' hearts long ago.
24. Bailey
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Team: Los Angeles Kings
Mascot:Bailey
Even though many maintain Raymond was robbed, a decision has been made to respect the "Near Crawly Mascot" vote from 2014, which went to Bailey of the Los Angeles Kings. In recent years, he's gained a well-earned reputation as a rabble-rouser, having made headlines for his shenanigans on more than than one occasion.
Last Nov, Bailey plant himself in some hot water afterwards publicly mocking Ducks players battling the mumps. Two weeks later, he reignited a feud with quondam WWE superstar CM Punk. Most recently Bailey took to Twitter to jab at the rival Sharks, remarking that Katy Perry's Super Bowl sharks were the beginning to make it to a championship game.
Bailey's antagonistic nature elevates him to the next level of mascoting—why be cute and cuddly when you lot tin be cold and confrontational?!
23. Rocky
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Team: Denver Nuggets
Mascot: Rocky
Back in 2008, Nuggets mascot Rocky was inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame, which apparently exists, and was named the "Most Awesome Mascot" by Cartoon Network in 2013. He's obviously doing something correct to be and so highly (and officially) busy, which is rare in the mascot game.
Rocky isn't afraid to go the extra mile in his performances, sometimes to his own detriment. In November 2013, he lost consciousness during a stunt, a scary moment for fans on manus to witness his limp body lowered from the rafters and laid on the floor. This by December, Rocky took a kick to the face from Rockets large human Dwight Howard.
In-game antics bated, off the courtroom Rocky has distinguished himself as a rogue political activist, something else rare in the mascot game! In September 2014, Rocky surprised his bosses in Denver by making an "unsanctioned, unpaid appearance" at a state GOP rally. Fifty-fifty if yous don't concord with his politics, you have to acknowledge that there's something fundamentally amusing about putting mascots in existent-world situations.
22. Presidents
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Squad: Washington Nationals
Mascot: The Presidents
The Nationals' primary mascot is Screech, an uninspired hawkeye graphic symbol who loves The Eagles, the song "Fly Similar an Eagle," throwing parties, and subsists mainly on gluey worms and, presumably, alcohol. (I live in Washington and this entire town runs on alcohol.)
Thankfully Natties fans tin can fall back on the Racing Presidents, who delight the crowd at home games with their arrogant race during the seventh-inning stretch. The Presidents combine our nation'due south rich and storied history with baseball, our beloved national pastime.
Well, that and not actually having to know anything near our nation'due south rich and storied history. Perfection personified.
21. Steely McBeam
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Team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Mascot: Steely McBeam
Steelers mascot Steely McBeam is the only mascot to make this list based primarily on awfulness. He's basically the opposite of everything that makes a skilful mascot—he's not cuddly or approachable or well-liked by fans or a function of the team's history or tradition.
He is, on the other mitt, a mockable stereotype of both the city of Pittsburgh and steelworkers themselves. Steely is equal parts terrifying and weird, as demonstrated perfectly in the 2012 "Call Me Perchance" parody vocal "Phone call Me Steely." It's a vocalisation that volition haunt your nightmares forever.
That'southward exactly what makes Steely McBeam so amazing—his sheer awfulness. It doesn't matter whether you lot love the Steelers or dearest to hate them, when Steely gets arrested for DUI, you laugh at his misfortune because he'due south a creepy weirdo and nobody likes him.
xx. Nordy
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Team: Minnesota Wild
Mascot: Nordy
A humanoid creature of unknown (or cryptic) ancestry, born somewhere in a forest and discovered skating the frozen ponds and lakes of the country known for having a thousand of them? Sign me upwardly! Nordy'due south origin story sounds more similar something out of Marvel Comics than the public relations staff of the Minnesota Wild.
Considering how busy Nordy is—at Wild games, attention children's events anddeliveringValentines, among other things—mayhap this affiliation of...uh...a cat and behave(?)doeshave superpowers. But if that was the instance, I don't call up this would take happened.
Nordy may not be the unholy spawn of Superman and Wolverine, but he can party, and that's aadeptthing.And based on his description every bit "strong and rugged simply huggable and fun loving," a Valentine'due south 24-hour interval gift from Nordy might be a crusade for business organisation for the human being of the house.
xix. Hugo
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Team: Charlotte Hornets
Mascot: Hugo
Don't call information technology a comeback / I've been here for years! -- LL Cool J, "Mama Said Knock You Out"
Earlier the Charlotte Hornets became the Charlotte Bobcats and then the Hornets again, an baby wasp named Hugo faced an existential crisis in 1989, when Hurricane Hugo—one of the worst storms on tape—devastated the Carolinas. Alas, he survived the fallout of being the mascot of a make new NBA franchise whose namesake was of a sudden associated with wide-scale destruction, only he could not escape the cold hand of market economics.
After a 2-year hiatus, when the Hornets became the New Orleans Pelicans in 2013 and Hugo was retired in favor ofPierrethe Pelican, Hugo was resurrected by the renamed Charlotte franchise. And I say: Welcome dorsum.
Though the original Hornets were a relatively short-lived franchise, the NBA just didn't seem right without them and those big, cold, dead-wasp eyes and funky colors.
18. Griz
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Team: Memphis Grizzlies
Mascot: Grizz
When Memphis Grizzlies mascot Grizz isn't cuttin' a carpeting on the court, he'southward buzzing around the Empire in the Millennium Falcon. Look. This isn't a Wookie. Okay, then on his days off, Grizz likes to spend time with his family on Endor. Hold on, Grizz isn't an Ewok? Are y'all telling me he's a damn grizzly bear?
The Memphis Grizzlies have a mascot that is supposed to be a grizzly bear but looks similar a cantankerous between Teen Wolf, Chewbacca and a Shih Tzu; and that'southward awesome.
He'southward leanin' on that basketball, and Grizz don't care. When you're a Grizzlies fan, there isn't a lot to cheer for, only Grizz makes it all worth it. Even if his webpage hasn't been updated in nearly five years.
17. Iceburgh
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Team: Pittsburgh Penguins
Mascot: Iceburgh
If a sports mascot isn't a symbolic representation of a place, a group of people or something relevant, and then information technology well-nigh always falls into the category of pure non sequitur. Not every team is located in a place like Michigan, where the logical selection also happens to be the badass choice—like a wolverine—or be represented by something that tin can proudly strut around around an loonshit.
Penguins, as in the flightless bird, are definitely non native to Pittsburgh, just Iceburgh definitely feels like a logical choice for any hockey team. Yes, an water ice-skating, googly-eyed penguin is in fact a not sequitur, simply not in the aforementioned visceral way equally a condor or shark.
Since 1992, Iceburgh has been entertaining Pens fans and working as de facto muscle for the team.
sixteen. Mr. Redlegs
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Squad: Cincinnati Reds
Mascot: Mr. Redlegs
Slap-up mascots can attain their status from completely disparate spaces—some may be inherently adorable, like the University of Georgia's "Uga," while others are a great characterization of the team, similar the scowling Purdue Pete.
And so there is that less beaten path—that nighttime place where the line between classically endearing and terrifying isn't and then well-divers. In this identify, yous volition find Mr. Redlegs continuing silently in the centre of a darkened room; a room lit but by the moonlight bleeding through a single, broken window. And, he's holding his trademark oversized bat.
Mr. Redlegs joined Mr. Ruddy—the "official" Cincinnati mascot—in 2007, with Gapper creating the haunting trifecta. Though Mr. Redlegs is designed to exist a kind of exaggerated throwback to the 50's era, the result is hilariously disturbing and why his spot on this list is well-earned.
15. Benny the Bull
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Squad: Chicago Bulls
Mascot: Benny the Balderdash
Benny the Balderdash is a mascot pioneer of sorts; when he debuted for the Chicago Bulls in the 1960s, he was the first NBA mascot to "roam the side lines." So, you tin add together barrier-billowto Benny's list of accomplishments, alongsidebeing redand a bipodal cow.
Benny is essentially a Bulls institution (unlike the menacing Big Ben and Benji), performing at 150 events a year. And his "Benny and the Elevators" dunking operation is a pretty crawly spectacle—so much then that he was invited to do information technology in London and Dubai.
But it wasn't always courtside antics and globe-trotting shenanigans for Benny; in 2004, the team felt his so-portly bovine physique set a bad example for children, and he was forced to slim down.
14. Large Scarlet
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Squad: St. Louis Cardinals
Mascot: Fredbird
By the team'southward own admission, Fredbird was given a "life-long" contract subsequently proving to be and so popular—so, Cardinals fans, when Fredbird'southward product slips and that contract looks like a terrible bet, yous know who to blame.
Seriously though, when your club is the model of consistency and championship-caliber baseball game, even the mascot is a machine. Beyond the standard crowd-pleasers, like wielding a T-shirt cannon and funky dances, Fredbird does his signature "beaking," which is when he envelopes a fan's head with his...well...beak for photos.
13. Suns Gorilla
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Squad: Phoenix Suns
Mascot: Phoenix Suns Gorilla
Perhaps no mascot is more real, as inreal, than the Phoenix Suns Gorilla. All the dude does is entertain an arena total of fans, doing trampoline-fueled, acrobatic dunks through burn, in costume, simply gets unceremoniously canned after kicking a Oestrus fan at an upshot. And allow's bereal, whohasn'twanted to kicking a Heat fan at some indicate in their life?
The Suns didn't even have a mascot for the starting time 11 seasons the franchise was in existence, so Gorilla was a kind of mascot savior—a savior that'due south cleaved bones, knocked out teeth and suffered an assortment of injuries giving the public its medicine. Thankfully, the Gorilla's efforts oasis't been in vain, every bit he was admitted into the Mascot Hall of Fame in 2005.
12. Pirate Parrot
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Squad: Pittsburgh Pirates
Mascot: Pirate Parrot
The Pirate Parrot is a mascot playing with house money. In its 1979 debut season, the Parrot cheered on the last Pirates team to win the World Series. And when the Pirates tried to recoup for more recent failures by creating anothermascot, Pirate Parrot won by not existence the sick-brash Captain Jolly.
Let's exist clear: Pirate Parrot is objectively adorable, even if those googly eyes tend to cross.
11. Ragnar the Viking
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Team: Minnesota Vikings
Mascot: Ragnar the Viking
Minnesota's Ragnar the Viking isn't just the only "homo" mascot on this listing, he's the merely "man" mascot in professional sports. Non-costumed mascots accept been more often than not phased out of sports, probably because they tend to exist weird and/or creepy—similar that goofy dude running effectually Morgantown with a musket.
This 1 may exist just a matter of personal taste, but I recollect Ragnar is a swell mascot—way improve than his plushy counterpart. Although he may be historically "inaccurate," Ragnar somehow manages to combine the hair of a crazy person with a fur vest and blank armpits without becoming a completely revolting presence.
10. Jazz Deport
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Team: Utah Jazz
Mascot: Jazz Deport
The Utah Jazz Bear has a knack for making mischief and commotion. Of course, he does all the standard NBA mascot stuff—stunts, skits, pull a fast one on shots—but the Carry has developed a distinctly confrontational way that tends to go him noticed more than your average mascot.
Although most, if non all, of his run-ins are probably staged to avert potential fan freakouts, Jazz Bear just knows how to sell it. In recent years, his greatest hits include a shouting match with a visiting Cavaliers fan, dumping a bucket of water on a Rockets fan and "accidentally" dropping a birthday cake over a ledge onto "unsuspecting" fans below.
As often as the Bear's hijinks brand headlines, so does the continued argue about whether or not any of it is "real." Which, every bit nosotros've already covered, it is not. Only the fact that people are withal request the question means this dude is doing his job, and doing information technology well. Jazz Comport is doing way more that tired, lazy Teen Wolf-inspired costume deserves.
nine. Wally the Green Monster
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Team: Boston Ruddy Sox
Mascot: Wally the Green Monster
Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster hasn't been around equally long as you may call up—he fabricated his MLB debut in 1997. He's long since established himself as, perhaps, the only likable sports fan in Boston. And the fact that he's apparently hated by "die-difficult" Red Sox fans means that he's definitely doing something right.
Please don't freak out, Boston fans, it'due south a joke! Mostly.
Wally only happens to have a lot of things going for him in the mascot section—things like a creative proper name, funny high-waisted shorts and a blueprint that was literally child-approved. Plus he'southward starred in a SportsCenter commercial and has attracted the ire of the Phillie Phanatic, over again proving he'due south doing something right.
8. Burnie
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Team: Miami Estrus
Mascot: Burnie
It'southward safe to say the Miami Oestrus aren't ane of the more beloved franchises in professional sports, and that'south putting it mildly. They were easy to detest during the LeBron James era of the "Big Iii," and even easier to forget now that he's gone. Perhaps their ane saving grace is their mascot Burnie, a massive basketball and fire-themed monster, who instead of a nose has a basketball, and instead of a mouth has a basketball game.
Burnie has been with the team since its inaugural 1988-89 season and has been making lists of the "best," "worst" and "weirdest" mascots in sports ever since. He's too known for always being on his blue-chip behavior—Burnie has been sued multiple times, including a $one million whopper in 1994.
Basically, he's the only consistently expert thing about Miami sports. Sorry Miami, merely you know y'all aren't the most committed bunch.
7. G.C. Wolf
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Squad: Kansas City Chiefs
Mascot: One thousand.C. Wolf
Similar about sports teams with names associated with Native Americans, the Chiefs abased their quondam mascot, which was a man riding a horse in a full Indian chief headdress, decades ago. K.C. Wolf, who looks more like a rat than a wolf, was born from a wild bunch of fans at Arrowhead Stadium known every bit the "Wolfpack" in 1989.
Played by a man named Dan Meers since his inception, K.C. Wolf'south penchant for game-day stunts and tackling field-crashing fans (like this guy, this guy and these guys) has made him one of the most buzzed-almost mascots in professional sports. In fact, he was the first NFL mascot inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame, a fellow member of its inaugural class in 2006.
Though after more than than twenty years on the chore, K.C.'due south future in Thou.C. was suddenly put in jeopardy after a faulty bungee cord during a zip-line stunt resulted in the hospitalization of Meers in November 2013. Thankfully a settlement was somewhen reached, putting Meers dorsum on the job the post-obit August.
No dubiety a tremendous relief for Chiefs fans, who have come to rely on their onetime-timey Chuck E. Cheese await-akin to soften the blow of their connected postseason failures.
6. Sausages
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Team: Milwaukee Brewers
Mascot: Racing Sausages
Unlike the Nationals, who striking a pop-up fly with Screech, the Brewers actually have a pretty solid official mascot with Bernie Brewer. Merely they're batting .1000 in Milwaukee with those legendary Famous Racing Sausages, which were stuffed into casings and allow loose in the form of a cartoon on the scoreboard in the early '90s.
Very popular amid the hometown fans, the virtual race eventually gave way to a real-life contest during the seventh-inning stretch—the Bang-up Pierogi Race in Pittsburgh and the Racing Presidents in Washington were both inspired by these sassy sausages. And we exercise mean sassy, which is apparently the all-time way to describe the infamous caper known equally "Sausagegate."
v. Mr. Met
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Team: New York Mets
Mascot: Mr. Met
Poor Mr. Met. You'd never know it to await at the perma-smile on his baseball dome, only as 1 of the oldest mascots in MLB, this guy has endured a lot of suffering since making his debut in 1964. The Mets have enjoyed sporadic success over the years, but no more than i or 2 seasons per decade interrupting long stretches of abject futility.
Truth is, Mr. Met is a bigger star than nearly players on their roster in a given season. He's 1 of the virtually pop mascots in sports, which may be why he occasionally attracts the ire of other mascots—in March 2014, the Royals mascot, Sluggerrr, chided Mr. Met almost sleeping with his wife after he joined Twitter.
Tin't blame the guy for existence jealous of Mr. Met, who is often seen hobnobbing with celebrities and was profiled by Rolling Stone concluding August.
iv. Youppi!
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Squad: Montreal Canadiens
Mascot: Youppi!
The Canadiens mascot Youppi! (the assertion marking is part of his proper noun) has only been entertaining the crowd at Habs games since 2005, just his history with sports fans in Quebec actually dates back over 30 years. Youppi! was the mascot of the Montreal Expos from 1979 until the squad left for Washington following the 2004 season.
Co-ordinate to his official bio, Youppi! is a pioneer of sorts, every bit the first official mascot in the Canadiens' near-century of existence. He's likewise the first to "ever work in two professional sport's leagues."
Later three decades in the Canadian spotlight, in June 2014 Youppi! made his presence known in the U.Due south. by challenging Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon to a playoff bet. When the Habs brutal to the Rangers, Youppi! had to mope effectually Montreal all day in a New York jersey. Fallon aired part of the video on the prove, making it an instant viral sensation.
three. The Raptor
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Team: Toronto Raptors
Mascot: The Raptors
The Raptors mascot puts most of his furry brethren to shame with his concrete displays and abode-game hijinks, which were, until recently, one of the few vivid spots in an otherwise perpetually grim basketball situation in Toronto. The Raptor is a certified superstar, with endless videos on YouTube already and more being added all the time.
In November 2014, he was challenged past Canadian lawn tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, and their on-court showdown became an international story. Information technology wasn't the first time the Raptor generated headlines—in Oct 2013, he blew out his Achilles, which was arguably the biggest story of the NBA preseason that yr.
Following his injury, Grantland did a surprisingly noun in-depth piece about the Raptor's significant bear on on the fan experience, too equally his reputation among the league's other mascots. Less than six months later on, the Raptor made his triumphant return, and it was the almost of import thing that happened in Canada that day.
2. Jaxson De Ville
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Team: Jacksonville Jaguars
Mascot: Jaxson De Ville
The Jaguars might be one of the worst franchises in American professional sports today, merely their mascot, Jaxson De Ville, is definitely elite. The same man has played Jaxson throughout his entire existence as "The Self-Proclaimed Best Mascot in Sports."
Although in that location's been the occasional ill-advised Ebola joke in his career, Jaxson has spent most of his tenure in Jacksonville hanging from a cord dangling in the heaven—similar one cutting cord abroad from splattering into a gilt puddle with black spots on the ground.
In August 2014, Jaxson was voted the all-time mascot in sports, which ways he's got fans that extend well across the meager group of fans that sparsely occupy the stands at EverBank Field.
1. Phanatic
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Squad:Philadelphia Phillies
Mascot:Phanatic
Much like the people of Philadelphia themselves, the Phillies Phanatic isn't ever particularly pretty to await at. He also isn't the nicest furry in any room—in fact, the Phanatic is known as the most-sued mascot in sports—but at to the lowest degree he'south honest.
Wanna know exactly what that greenish horn-nosed freak show is thinking? Well, simply take a look at him. The Phanatic isn't complicated, but he is hilarious and the virtually likely to appoint in behavior that could induce a lawsuit. What's non to love?
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