# Are there any crustacean or mollusk sports mascots? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 2, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699 "2014-03-02T21:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/1 "2014-03-02T21:24:59Z")
Title says it all. ---
**Author:** ![kurtisokc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kurtisokc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurtisokc)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/2 "2014-03-02T21:33:45Z")
I think this topic belongs in the game room. I have a coworker who grew up in the Tidewater, VA area, and seem to recall that he said his high school’s mascot was the “fighting crabs.” I can’t remember the name of the school. I might ask him if I see him tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![kurtisokc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kurtisokc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurtisokc)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/3 "2014-03-02T21:37:08Z")
Also, the mascot for the University of California-Santa Cruz is the Banana Slug. Are they a type of mollusk? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/4 "2014-03-02T21:40:53Z")
Evergreen State has the geoduck. ETA - that’s a mollusk, and it’s pronounced “gooeyduck”, if you didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/5 "2014-03-02T21:42:24Z")
The Evergreen State College Geoducks: [Speedy, Evergreen’s Geoduck Mascot | The Evergreen State College](http://www.evergreen.edu/geoduck/) “Speedy is one of just two non-insect invertebrate college mascots. The other is Sammy the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/6 "2014-03-02T22:04:12Z")
The Tampa Bay Rays have a minor league team called the Charlotte Stone Crabs. > **[Charlotte Stone Crabs](https://www.milb.com/charlotte-stone-crabs)** > > The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips. There was once a minor league hockey team in Louisiana called the Shreveport Mudbugs; mudbugs is a slang term for crawdads/crayfish, which are crustaceans. > **[Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs Logos - Central Hockey League (CeHL) - Chris...](https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/2921/Bossier-Shreveport_Mudbugs/)** > > The logo, uniform, and branding history of the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs (CeHL) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/7 "2014-03-02T22:28:23Z")
Well if we’re counting minor league baseball there’s the Savannah Sand Gnats. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/8 "2014-03-02T22:31:39Z")
In a slightly different vein, the San Francisco Giants had, for a brief shining moment back in 1984, a mascot called Crazy Crab. Sadly he’s gone now, but [not forgotten](http://www.rehabthecrab.com/), and Og willing we may see him again one day… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/9 "2014-03-02T22:50:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > There was once a minor league hockey team in Louisiana called the Shreveport Mudbugs; mudbugs is a slang term for crawdads/crayfish, which are crustaceans. > > [Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs Logos History - Central Hockey League (CeHL) - Chris Creamer's Sports Logos Page - SportsLogos.Net](http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/2921/Bossier-Shreveport_Mudbugs/) True, but the preferred terms are either ‘crawfish’ (almost always in everyday speech) or mudbug (colloquially) in that area. Louisianans like myself take their crawfish seriously. Using any other term will get you branded instantly as as foreigner or, even worse, a Yankee. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/10 "2014-03-02T22:52:49Z")
> [@kurtisokc](#): > > Also, the mascot for the University of California-Santa Cruz is the Banana Slug. Are they a type of mollusk? Yep. You beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/11 "2014-03-02T22:56:51Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > True, but the preferred terms are either ‘crawfish’ (almost always in everyday speech) or mudbug (colloquially) in that area. Louisianans like myself take their crawfish seriously. Using any other term will get you branded instantly as as foreigner or, even worse, a Yankee. Well, I AM a Yankee! I grew up in New York. Here in Texas, “Crawdads” seems to be the preferred term, and we have two of them in aquariums in our dining room (my son is constantly catching cold-blooded critters and begging to keep them. My boss is an authentic Cajun, and he’s the one who both introduced me to the term “mudbugs,” and who explained to me the difference between Cajun and Creole food (us Yankees don’t always grasp the distinction). ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/12 "2014-03-02T23:18:35Z")
> [@kurtisokc](#): > > I think this topic belongs in the game room. > > I have a coworker who grew up in the Tidewater, VA area, and seem to recall that he said his high school’s mascot was the “fighting crabs.” I can’t remember the name of the school. I might ask him if I see him tomorrow morning. That’s Hampton High School. They’re known as the “Crabbers”, and their mascot is a Chesapeake Bay Crab. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/13 "2014-03-02T23:36:36Z")
Calhoun Couinty Sandcrabs, Port Lavaca, Texas. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/14 "2014-03-02T23:37:30Z")
The Texas Rangers have a minor league team in Hickory, North Carolina called the Crawdads. > **[2013 Hickory Crawdads Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=74ec30e9)** > > Teams Roster, Player Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Statistics, Team Record and additional information ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/15 "2014-03-02T23:58:00Z")
Key West High School Conchs Dunn High School (Los Olivos, California) Earwigs ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/16 "2014-03-03T00:36:47Z")
I used to host a pool tournament in which the grand prize was a mounted rubber Wondrous Glowing Squid. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/17 "2014-03-03T00:37:04Z")
This is going rather far afield, but in Siena, Italy there are two horse races staged each year around the central square. The two races are interchangeably called the “Palio,” and take place in July and August. Civic associations called “contrade” (singular “contrada”) each enter a horse. There’s a lot of pomp and pageantry, emotions run high, fights are common, and races often fixed. Anyway, one of the more venerable contrade is called “Chiocciola,” or snail, which is a funny mascot for a racehorse. ---
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The Maine Red Claws, a D-league team for the NBA: [http://www.nba.com/dleague/maine/](http://www.nba.com/dleague/maine/) ---
**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/19 "2014-03-03T01:33:25Z")
When the New Jersey Devils won the NHL title their fans were throwing octopuses out onto the ice. Not the official mascot, but amusing in a non PETA friendly sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699/20 "2014-03-03T01:41:25Z")
> [@zoltar7](#): > > The Evergreen State College Geoducks: [Our Mascot | The Evergreen State College](http://www.evergreen.edu/geoduck/) > > “Speedy is one of just two non-insect invertebrate college mascots. The other is Sammy the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug.” To pick nits (so to speak), there are some colleges using arachnids, which are non-insect invertebrates. I thought this would be the case, and I found the Nevada State College Scorpions and the University of Richmond Spiders. There’s probably others. Of course, they aren’t crustaceans or molluscs either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-crustacean-or-mollusk-sports-mascots/682699.md?page=2)