# Best or Most interesting Mascot?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 25, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226 "2014-05-25T04:31:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/21 "2014-05-27T00:31:26Z")

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Homer pick, but Wally the Green Monster is pretty cool.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/22 "2014-05-27T00:41:04Z")

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Peter the Anteater is pretty interesting: [here](http://uci.edu/peter/) is a video.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/23 "2014-05-27T10:40:17Z")

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There is no comparison. There are other teams’ mascots, and there is Sparty. Here he is [scoring a touchdown.](http://btn.com/2014/04/26/sparty-takes-handoff-and-runs-for-touchdown/)

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**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/24 "2014-05-27T11:29:37Z")

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Yeah, unfortunately for us, FSU’s mascot sucks. But since he doesn’t make an appearance at the football games, nobody really gives a shit.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/25 "2014-05-27T14:33:22Z")

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I still don’t see how anyone can compete with a [banana slug](http://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html).

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-most-interesting-mascot/689226/26 "2014-05-27T15:05:38Z")

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> [@Stratocaster](#):
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> I agree. Mr. Met is the textbook personality-less, bobble-head mascot. I can’t find a cite for it now, but I once read a short piece by Dan Quisenberry (a pretty entertaining athlete) who said that the Phanatic was ML ballplayers’ favorite mascot–and then qualified it further by saying, he was the ONLY mascot big leaguers liked and actually watched do his schtick. The rest they considered lame.

Interesting. [The guy who played the San Diego Chicken is quoted](http://www.famouschicken.com/usofbaseball.html) as naming The Quiz specifically as a guy who would always play along with him. And the only time he’d likely have seen the Phanatic (as a player) would have been the 1980 World Series.

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