Worst Sports Mascots

Worst Sports Mascots

James Caughlin

Welcome to the sporting world Docka the Quokka, the new mascot for the Fremantle Dockers.

Let’s just call this out for the disaster that it is.

Picking a mascot for any sports team is an exercise fraught with danger considering just how easy it is to get it wrong.

Especially in the case of these clubs.

Kenosha Kingfish

Local baseball team Kenosha Kingfish plays in the collegiate summer Northwoods League in regional Wisconsin.

Aside from a generally scary design, they make the poor kid in the suit go through tackline drills with Green Bay Packers running back AJ Dillon.

They really should retire him after this.

Appy – 2012 European Athletics Championships

Perhaps the only compliment you can give this effort is that it might have been sort of timely?

Think back to 2012 and smart phones are going off, with new apps popping up all over the damn place.

At least that’s what I think they were going for…

The FA Cup – The FA Cup

We’ve got a trio of mascots that fall into the “terrible” category because of a complete and utter lack of creativity when it came to the design.

Rather than going for something innovative, they just ordered an FA Cup shaped mascot costume and shoved some poor gameday volunteer in there?

Bouncer – Caribbean Premier League

The Bouncer has been retired from the Caribbean Premier League and all you can think of when it comes to this one is… could they not have come up with something better than a cricket ball?

Timmy Tryline – England Rugby

Just about every record of this ill fated mascot has been wiped from the internet, and considering it was a generic white rugby ball with the team logo on it, it’s probably for the best.

Stuff – Orlando Magic

Stuff… get it?

As in: Stuff the Magic Dragon which sounds like the song Puff the Magic Dragon…

Combine the awful pun of a name with a bizarrely bright colour scheme, a reportedly randomly assigned wardrobe and those noise blower things inside each nostril and it’s a lot to take in.

You have to give the person in the suit credit for this though.

Bomber – Kent Spitfires

The less said about this the better, but that’s one hell of a landing gear on that tiny plane.

https://twitter.com/davids_voyage/status/1026185342645362688?s=20&t=Yj7A0EKSHE31XVx1tDL6yQ

Bulli – RB Leipzig

It’s just a bit too on the nose really.

After being bought by Red Bull and renamed to RB Leipzig, the club also brought out this mascot which just so happened to be a red bull.

We get it!

Sammy the Shrimp and Elvis J Eel – Southend United

The only club to get a double entry on this list is English League Two side Southend United who started off with Sammy the Shrimp.

Admittedly there’s not a lot to complain about with the name, given the nickname of “The Shrimpers” but the wholly uninspiring design leaves a lot to be desired.

He has since been joined by Elvis J Eel because… well nobody quite knows why.

But we’d love to know who signed off on that design.

The Bat – Valencia CF

If you’ve got a bat on your club emblem, it has to be used as the team’s mascot and that is what Mat Ryan’s former club Valencia have done.

Unfortunately, the Bat is entirely too happy and looks like a rejected Sesame Street character.

King Cake Baby – New Orleans Pelicans

There’s no easy way to say this, but King Cake Baby is quite possibly the most terrifying infant you will ever encounter.

Fighting Okra – Delta State University

We’ll close out with a couple from the wild world of college sports in America, which has no shortage of horrendous design choices.

Here we present to you… a vegetable wearing boxing gloves…

Was this designed on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend perhaps?

The Tree – Stanford Cardinal

If you read this and thought that a Cardinal would be a bird so the Stanford University mascot on this list would be some weird looking avian type creature, you would be wrong.

Instead the Cardinals have brought out some tree designs that honestly could have been thrown together at the local tip.