# Men's pro sports teams with female mascots **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 13, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597 "2021-09-13T10:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/21 "2021-09-13T22:30:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Speaking of hens, the University of Delaware are the “Blue Hens”. Not unlike the “mud hen,” the [Blue Hen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Blue_Hen) is a breed of American gamecock, and can be of either sex. [YoUDee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YoUDee), the Delaware Blue Hens’ costumed mascot, is “officially androgynous.” > [@Chronos](#): > > Is there any team with a cow as a mascot? University of Texas Longhorns, though [Bevo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevo_(mascot)) (the official, flesh-and-blood mascot) is a steer. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/22 "2021-09-13T22:45:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Is there any team with a cow as a mascot? Williams College has the Purple Cow named Ephelia as their mascot for all teams. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/23 "2021-09-13T23:04:42Z")
And of course, [banana slugs](https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html) are hermaphrodidic. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/24 "2021-09-13T23:47:29Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > University of Texas Longhorns, though [Bevo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevo_(mascot)) (the official, flesh-and-blood mascot) is a steer. You were close in two directions with this one. Geographically, Texas A&M’s mascot [Revelle](https://www.tamu.edu/traditions/aggie-culture/reveille/index.html#:~:text=Reveille%20is%20known%20as%20the,her%20appearance%20in%20January%201931.) is a female collie and is known as the first Lady of A&M. Then you were close by being in the same family as [Ralphie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralphie_the_Buffalo) the Buffalo who is currently female. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/25 "2021-09-14T01:35:00Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@psychonaut](#): > > > > This is probably closer to what I had in mind, but were the dogs presented to the public as female? That is, did the team give the dogs a feminine name or use female pronouns to refer to them? > > Doesn’t look like it. The school’s actual bulldog mascot is named [Uga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uga_(mascot)) (an abbreviation for **U** niversity of **G** eorgi **a** ); the current Uga is the tenth in the line, and it appears that most, if not all, of the Uga dogs were/are male. The Wiki entry does say that a female English bulldog filled in for Uga in the 1971 season. On the other hand, Georgia’s other, human, mascot, Hairy Dawg, is unquestionably male: [![](https://images.sidearmdev.com/fit?url=https%3a%2f%2fdxbhsrqyrr690.cloudfront.net%2fsidearm.nextgen.sites%2fgeorgiadogs.com%2fimages%2f2017%2f6%2f30%2fhairy_JPK9511.jpg&height=665&width=1000&type=jpeg) ](https://images.sidearmdev.com/fit?url=https%3a%2f%2fdxbhsrqyrr690.cloudfront.net%2fsidearm.nextgen.sites%2fgeorgiadogs.com%2fimages%2f2017%2f6%2f30%2fhairy_JPK9511.jpg&height=665&width=1000&type=jpeg) ---
**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:** [September 14, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/26 "2021-09-14T21:10:32Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > On the other hand, Georgia’s other, human, mascot, Hairy Dawg, is unquestionably male: Just to be sure, which of the three is he? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/27 "2021-09-15T11:17:54Z")
The blonde. (I should have said, Hairy Dawg is unquestionably presented as male.) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/28 "2021-09-16T22:33:57Z")
Some years ago I was in Toronto for a meeting and I went to a Jays game. I don’t recall if there was a male mascot, but there was Lady Jay, a female. She also sang the anthems and did a damn good job of singing them straight with no styling (I detest that). Then I got on a trolley to go back to my hotel (which was down the street from the Maple Leaf Gardens) and I saw Lady Jay get on the trolley. I went up to her to tell her how much I liked her singing and we had a bit of a conversation. She was interesting and intelligent and I enjoyed that. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/29 "2021-09-17T17:01:48Z")
The Charlotte Hornets mascot probably has a stinger, which would make it a female. Nobody is afraid of male hornets. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597/30 "2021-09-22T03:46:06Z")
She definitely does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-pro-sports-teams-with-female-mascots/950597.md?page=1)