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Mascot(s) Photo Description Baltimore Ravens: Poe, Rise and Conquer Poe, a raven, named after Edgar Allan Poe. Since 2009, along with human mascot Poe, Rise and Conquer are Baltimore's two raven mascots on the sidelines for home games, handled by trainers from The Maryland Zoo. Buffalo Bills: Billy Buffalo: An 8-foot tall buffalo. Cincinnati ...
Pages in category "National Football League mascots" ... List of NFL mascots; B. Big Red (Cardinals mascot) Billy Buffalo; Blitz (mascot) Blue (NFL mascot) C. Crazy ...
This is a list of mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.
Among these symbols are the badge, the flag, the anthem and the mascot. While the first three are commonplace all over the world, the last one is peculiarly Brazilian both in its character and its use. A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names.
Many teams used new, bizarre mascots, and most of the mascots were never seen again. The characters were originally introduced as a short-lived NFL merchandising effort called "Team NFL Heroes."
Though mascots and names may seem trivial today, they are rooted in a legacy of assimilationist policies that reduced Indigenous cultures to simplified, non-threatening images for consumption. [1] The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United ...
Many sports team mascots are named for an ethnic group or similar category of people. Though these names typically refer to a group native to the area in which the sports team is based, many teams take their names from groups which are known for their strength (such as Spartans or Vikings ), despite not being located near the historic homes of ...
5. Jack. Jack in the Box. Jack I. Box — the spherically endowed mascot for the primarily West Coast-based fast food chain — was launched in 1994, but his history goes back a little farther.