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TIDBITS® CHEERS ON SOME FAVORITE MASCOTS by Kathy Wolfe What’s the mascot for your favorite sports team? This week, Tidbits explores the origin of mascots and passes along some info on some of our favorites, as well as the unusual and unknown. • The word “mascot” has its beginnings in France, with the first recorded use of the French word “mascotte” which translates “lucky charm,” in 1867. Earlier derivations of the word meant “witchcraft, charm, or amulet.” In the mid-19th century, mascottes might have been a lock of hair or a talisman, similar to a rabbit’s foot. • As high school and college sports grew in popularity, schools used mascots to distinguish and set apart their team on the field. In the 1800s, mascots were actually live animals. Professional sports teams didn’t begin using mascots until the 1960s. The New York Mets were the first team to debut a mascot, Mr. Met, a man with a giant baseball for a head, who made his debut in 1962 at the Polo Grounds, the Mets’ stadium at the time. The Mets’ farm team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, have their own mascot, Sandy the Seagull.
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MASCOTS (continued): • The San Diego Chicken made his debut in 1974, but not at a Padres game. The chicken first made appearances at the San Diego Zoo, concerts, and other sporting events before first performing at the Padres stadium in 1977. A 20-year-old college student named Ted Giannoulas first donned the suit at the Zoo for $2 an hour, and is still playing the part. This fowl character doesn’t limit his appearances to Padres games, but works independently around the world, having made more than 17,000 appearances, with 8,500 of them at sporting events in 917 different arenas in all 50 states, four continents, and eight countries. Giannoulas has worn out more than 100 chicken suits. • The Philadelphia Phillies introduced the Phillie Phanatic in 1978, a furry green creature designed by puppeteers who had done work for Jim Henson. The Phanatic can be seen on the roof of the Phillies dugout at the seven-and-a-half inning stretch, performing The Phanatic Dance. He also shoots hot dogs into the stands using a pneumatic gun. • According to legend, Wally the Green Monster, the furry mascot of MLB’s Boston Red Sox, lived within the Green Monster wall from 1947 (the year the wall was painted green) until he emerged from inside in 1997. Named for the 37-ft., 2-inch (11.3 m) left field wall at Fenway Park, Wally wears Red Sox jersey No. 97, the year he emerged from the Wall. • The only “human” mascot in all four major North American sports cheers on the Minnesota Vikings. Ragnar the Viking exits the tunnel on his motorcycle, wearing his Norse attire. It may well be that Ragnar will be retired soon as Joe Juranitch, who has played the part for 21 years, has asked for a rather large increase in pay, from $1,500 per game in the 2015 season to a hefty $20,000 per game. • NFL’s Tennessee Titans chose their state animal as the mascot of their team. T-Rac is a raccoon who dresses in Titan garb and has frequently zip-lined into Nashville’s Nissan Stadium to cheer on the team. • Four NFL teams have no mascot – the New York Giants, the New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, and the Green Packers, although thousands of Packers fans don cheeseheads for their team’s games. The most recent team to add a mascot was the St. Louis Rams, who added Rampage in 2010. Rampage will be on the move back to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. • Three Major League Baseball teams also have no mascot – the Angels, the Dodgers, and the Yankees. • Detroit Red Wings hockey fans have been throwing octopuses onto the ice since 1952, when two brothers who owned a fish market did it for the first time. The eight tentacles of this cephalopod represent the eight wins it took to win the Stanley Cup at that time. (It now takes 16 wins.) When the Wings scored a perfect eight, the octopus became the official mascot, named Al after their arena building operations manager Al Sobotka. Al has been updated a few times, including the removal of a tooth so that he had a “hockey player” look, as well as the addition of a Red Wings jersey to his body. And what is Al’s jersey number? Why, 8, of course! • Bailey the Lion is the mascot of hockey’s Los Angeles Kings, named in honor of the team’s Director of Pro Scouting, Ace Bailey, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to Bailey’s reign, the Kings had a snow leopard named Kingston. Bailey wears the No. 72 jersey, not as a tribute to any Kings player, but because that’s the average annual temperature in Los Angeles. • Each time the Olympics are held, the mascot symbolizes the host city. In 1968, Grenoble, France was the first city to have a mascot for the Winter Olympics, a little man on skis named Schuss. The 1972 Munich Olympics featured a dachshund named Waldi, and the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games introduced a bald eagle named Sam. The first Olympic mascot couple appeared at Calgary’s 1988 Winter Games. Hidy and Howdy were polar bears chosen after a contest sponsored by the Calgary Zoo brought in 7,000 entries. Most recently, the Sochi, Russia Olympics featured three mascots, a hare, a polar bear, and a leopard, symbolic of the three places on the Olympic podium. • Although mascots contribute to entertainment, enthusiasm, and team spirit, they are also the source of multi-million dollar income for a team in sales of souvenirs and team-related merchandise. • Exceptional mascots are inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame, created in 2005 by the original Phillie Phanatic. Originally an online-only organization, the city of Whiting, Indiana, agreed to construct a permanent Mascot Hall of Fame on the shores of Lake Michigan. Only mascots in place for at least 10 years are eligible for induction. Inductees include Mr. Met, Rocky of the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns Gorilla, Jazz Bear of the Utah Jazz, the San Diego Chicken, and, of course, the Phillie Phanatic. • Do you have a hankering to become a team mascot? San Antonio, Texas, is home to a Professional Mascot School, where for $250, you can learn the essentials of being a pro mascot.
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COLLEGE MASCOTS There are some very unusual mascots at some of the colleges and universities around the continent. Here are just a few. • Scottsdale, Arizona Community College’s athletic teams have a rather unique team name, the Fighting Artichokes. The college, which opened in 1970, was without a mascot for its first two years. There was a little animosity between the administration and the student body over distribution of scholarship money. Consequently, students put three suggestions on the ballot for the team – the Scoundrels, the Rutabagas, and the Artichokes. Put to a vote, the Artichokes won out. • Another team with an edible mascot name is the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, located in Winston-Salem. The Fighting Pickles was the name selected by the student body in 2010, and in 2012, it was named the “Cheesiest College Mascot.” • Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia proudly calls their team the Fighting Squirrels. The school was established in 1842 as the Augusta Female Seminary, and was a very state-of-theart school during the Civil War Years. Mary Julia Baldwin was one of the Seminary’s first students, and became its principal in 1863, where she remained for the next 34 years. The school was renamed in her honor, and because the squirrel was the central figure in her family crest, it became the school’s mascot. • Eighteen different varsity teams at Texas Christian University are known as the Horned Frogs. In 1897, the year the team was named, the school was known as AddRan Christian University. The name came about because of “the abundance of those creatures around campus.” The name was changed to TCU in 1902, but the mascot remained the same. (continued on last page).
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June Is Adopt a Cat Month --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’ll never forget the first cat I ever brought home. “Two Socks” was a shelter cat who had been adopted by a college friend. For reasons I won’t go into, my friend was unable to keep him and figured this out about two weeks after adopting him from the local shelter. He was about a year old then, very shy and skittish, but also super curious about everything. My friend asked if I’d like to keep Two Socks, and even though I had never owned a cat before and I would have to dredge up a pet fee to keep him in my apartment, I said yes. I didn’t regret it one bit. Two Socks had personality to spare. Over time he was joined by two more cats, “Chewy” and “Belle,” but he ruled the apartment despite his shy nature. Two Socks lived to be about 14 and eventually passed away after a long illness. You never forget your first pet. I only regret that I didn’t get to keep pets when I was younger, but I’m making up for it now thanks to that little black-and-white cat. -- Kathy in Des Moines, Iowa DEAR KATHY: Pets really can change our lives for the better, can’t they? Your story is apropos, considering that June is Adopt a Cat Month. Readers, if you’ve been thinking about adding a new member to your family, consider visiting your local shelter or learning more about what it takes to adopt a cat, with tips and information, at www.petfinder.com/cats. Readers, send in your memories of the day your cat joined the family by emailing ask@pawscorner.com. Send your tips, questions or comments to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
UNUSUAL ANIMALS: FERRETS One of the nation’s most popular pets is the ferret, currently in third place after cats and dogs. Let’s get the facts on this member of the Mustelid family. • Ferrets are carnivorous mammals in the same family as otters, badgers, weasels, minks, and wolverines. Their name comes from the Latin word furittus, meaning “little thief,” which is indicative of their habit of hiding small items. • A male ferret can reach of length of 18 inches (46 cm), and weighs between 2 and 5 lbs. (0.9 and 2.3 kg), While the female might grow to a length of 16 inches (40 cm), she only weighs half as much as the male. A baby ferret, called a kit, is so tiny that it can fit in a teaspoon. Ferret owners can expect their pet to live between six and eight years. • Ferrets have been domesticated for over 2,000 years, and were pets in the Middle Ages. In fact, a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci features the subject, Cecelia Gallerani, holding a ferret. Queen Victoria of England raised albino ferrets and frequently handed them out as gifts to visitors. • These pets are very intelligent and can be trained to perform a variety of tricks. Typically happy little animals, they often perform a “weasel war dance,” during which they jump about wildly with their tail puffed out while making strange hissing noises. This is just their way of playfully expressing their joy! The dance must wear them out, because ferrets sleep between 14 and 18 hours a day. • Ferrets can also be useful in the community. Since a small one is able to squeeze through a hole just over 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter, they been used for running wire and cable. • In the 1960s, Boeing used the little weasels to string wire through airplanes. They were used to run underground cable for London’s Y2K Millennium concert, coaxed with bits of meat and the end of tunnels. Ferrets have displayed their usefulness in dragging cleaning brushes through tubes that were otherwise impossible to clean. • Sadly, ferrets are not all fun and games. They have been known to attack infants when left unattended, even killing a 10-week-old baby. A 10-day-old baby was attacked as her mother napped, and fortunately was saved by the family dog who bounded to the rescue. A pet ferret chewed off the fingers of a four-month-old baby sitting alone in a rocker. These small mammals have an amazing 34 teeth in their tiny mouths! They are excellent mousers, killing rodents by biting the base of the neck at the junction of the skull and spine. • Pet ferrets are completely dependent on people for life. Their diet must contain meat or they will die. Left on its own, a ferret will die starvation within four days. It also cannot tolerate freezing weather and will die within 24 hours. • Do you know the ferret lingo? A male is called a Hob, while the female is referred to as a Jill. Spayed females are known as Sprites, and neutered males are called Gibs. A group of ferrets is called a “business.”
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COLLEGE MASCOTS (continued): • Attend a game at Louisiana State University and you can catch a glimpse of Mike, a live Bengal tiger, the school’s mascot. The current Mike is the sixth tiger in the mascot’s history and is a Siberian-Bengal mix weighing over 450 lbs. (204 kg), but expected to reach 600 lbs. (270 kg) by full adulthood. The first Mike was really named Sheik, and was purchased in 1935 from the Little Rock, Arkansas Zoo for $750, with funds raised by collecting a quarter from every LSU student. He lived 20 years. Mike VI (whose name is actually Roscoe) lives in a $3 million, 15,000 sq-ft. habitat created especially for the school’s mascot, which includes a waterfall, a stream, a pond, abundant greenery, and rocky mesas. During home games, opposing teams must pass by Mike’s cage-on-wheels, which is always situated by the locker room. • University of California at Irvine is home to the Anteaters, who received their name in 1965. Two of the school’s water polo players were great fans of the Johnny Hart comic strip “B.C.”, which made its newspaper debut in 1958. The prehistoric cartoon featured an anteater who snatched up ants with a “Zot!” sound. Today, “Zot!” is the university’s war-cry at college sporting events, and their mascot is named Peter the Anteater. • In 1953, Ohio’s University of Akron chose Zippy the kangaroo as their school mascot. The name wasn’t chosen because the animal zips around, but as an abbreviated form of “Zippers,” used to refer to a pair of rubber overshoes manufactured by the city’s BF Goodrich Company. Although the team has been known as the Zips since 1925, Zippy didn’t come along until 28 years later.
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