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MASCOTSby 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.

• � e word “mascot” has its beginnings in France, with the � rst 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 � eld. In the 1800s, mascots were actually live animals. Professional sports teams didn’t begin using mascots until the 1960s. � e New York Mets were the � rst 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. � e Mets’ farm team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, have their own mascot, Sandy the Seagull.

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MASCOTS (continued):• � e San Diego Chicken made his debut in 1974,

but not at a Padres game. � e chicken � rst made appearances at the San Diego Zoo, concerts, and other sporting events before � rst performing at the Padres stadium in 1977. A 20-year-old college student named Ted Giannoulas � rst donned the suit at the Zoo for $2 an hour, and is still playing the part. � is 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 di� erent arenas in all 50 states, four continents, and eight countries. Giannoulas has worn out more than 100 chicken suits.

• � e Philadelphia Phillies introduced the Phillie Phanatic in 1978, a furry green creature designed by puppeteers who had done work for Jim Henson. � e Phanatic can be seen on the roof of the Phillies dugout at the seven-and-a-half inning stretch, performing � e 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 � eld wall at Fenway Park, Wally wears Red Sox jersey No. 97, the year he emerged from the Wall.

• • � e 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. � e 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.

• � ree Major League Baseball teams also have

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• 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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FERRETSOne 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. � eir 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 � t 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.

• � ese 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 pu� ed out while making strange hissing noises. � is is just their way of playfully expressing their joy! � e 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. � ey 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. � ey 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

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 � sh market did it for the � rst time. � e 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 o� cial 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 � rst city to have a mascot for the Winter Olympics, a little man on skis named Schuss. � e 1972 Munich Olympics featured a dachshund named Waldi, and the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games introduced a bald eagle named Sam. � e � rst 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.

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The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens have chosen a history-related mascot named Poe to honor their native son Edgar Allen Poe, who wrote the famous poem entitled “The Raven.”

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those creatures around campus.” � e name was changed to TCU in 1902, but the mascot remained the same.

• Attend a game at Louisiana State University and you can catch a glimpse of Mike, a live Bengal tiger, the school’s mascot. � e 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. � e � rst 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. � e 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. � e 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.

dog who bounded to the rescue. A pet ferret chewed o� the � ngers of a four-month-old baby sitting alone in a rocker. � ese small mammals have an amazing 34 teeth in their tiny mouths! � ey 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. � eir 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.”

COLLEGE MASCOTSThere 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. � e college, which opened in 1970, was without a mascot for its � rst two years. � ere 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. � e 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. � e school was established in 1842 as the Augusta Female Seminary, and was a very state-of-the-art school during the Civil War Years. Mary Julia Baldwin was one of the Seminary’s � rst students, and became its principal in 1863, where she remained for the next 34 years. � e school was renamed in her honor, and because the squirrel was the central � gure in her family crest, it became the school’s mascot.

• Eighteen di� erent 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. � e name came about because of “the abundance of

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1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Honduras?2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

Which one of Christopher Columbus’ three ships was wrecked in the New World and didn’t return to Spain?3. EXPLORERS: What was Christopher Columbus’ nationality? 4. MOVIES: What was the name of the character played by John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction”?5. GAMES: What is the best hand in poker?6. ANATOMY: What is the most common blood type in humans?7. LANGUAGE: What characteristic makes the word “facetious” interesting?8. LITERATURE: In which of

Shakespeare’s plays does the ghost of Banquo appear?9. RELIGION: What are the seven virtues as de� ned in early Christianity?10. MUSIC: What instrument does the musician James Galway play?

Answers1. Tegucigalpa2. Santa Maria3. Italian4. Vincent Vega5. Royal � ush 6. Type O positive7. It contains all � ve vowels in the correct order.8. “Macbeth”9. Faith, hope, charity, courage, prudence, justice and temperance10. Flute(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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