Top Mascot Moments
In 2000, Wisconsin was up big on Michigan State and after the Badgers scored yet another touchdown, Bucky (Wisconsin's mascot) stole the Michigan State Flag and ran around the stadium before he was tackled by a male cheerleader from Michigan State. The police soon came and broke up the altercation. In 1992, Northwestern State mascot Vic the Demon got into an end zone brawl with Chief Brave Spirit, the mascot for Louisiana-Monroe. Even better than the fight, however, is the overly-dramatic analysis of the fight. In 2006, UC Berkeley police spotted Erin Lashnits, aka the Stanford Tree, drinking from a flask during a basketball game. She was asked to take a breathalyzer at halftime and blew a .157 -- nearly double the legal limit. She was cited for public drunkenness and told to watch the rest of the game from the grandstand. Now you tell us your greatest mascot moments. Comments:Uga V taking a lunge at Auburn player Robert Baker in the first overtime game in the SEC.
The greatest moment was when the Northeast Louisiana University Indians' mascot got into a fight with the Northwestern State Demon...Chief Brave Spirit obviously won when he took off the demon's mask...Go Indians!!!
Back in 1987 I attended a college hockey game between the University of Maine and Northeastern University at Alfond Arena on the UMaine campus.
My friend was the UMaine mascot, Bananas the Bear, and during one intermission he skated onto the ice and proceeded to stick handle a stuffed husky dog (Northeastern's mascot). It started out being funny but got ugly as Bananas began slap-shooting the halpless canine into the goal. By the time intermission was over the husky had been worked over pretty good and was clearly on the verge of losing its stuffing, much to the delight of UMaine fans and the horror of Northeastern fans. Best mascot on mascot beating ever.... Maryland-UNC game in Chapel Hill in 2000 or 2001. At the time the UNC Mascot (Ramses the Ram) had a little motor scooter on which he sped around the stadium. The Maryland Terp decided to steal the motorcycle when the Ram wasn't looking, and took a lap around the stadium. As the Terp came back around to the UNC student section, the Ram was waiting, and mercilessly closelined the Terp, sending his plushy mascot butt sprawling on the ground as the scooter flew out from under him. Ramses calmly picked up the scooter, and began a victory lap around the stadium with the crowd cheering as the Terp lay there motionless for a good 20 seconds.
This was on Sportscenter during a URI-St. Joe's game in the late 90's. St. Joe's has a mascot who flaps his wings throughout the game. The URI mascot put a innertube around the St. Joe's mascot to stop him from flapping. The St. Joe's mascot was yelling in the face of the URI mascot while flapping his arms the entire time. They both were escorted out, but it was really funny to see.
Pretty sure it doesn't qualify with the others that are listed, but Bucky Badger has been arrested a few times for crowd surfing, which is against the law in Wisconsin.
Gotta go with Sebastian the Ibis getting into a fight with a band member and getting arrested in the process. Nothing can top that.
During Northwestern's 1995 Homecoming game against Wisconsin, Bucky Badger tipped a cup of hot chocolate out of the hands of a young girl. Her father, an NU fan, jumped the rail and begain to swing. The two rolled on the ground until they could be seperated by cheerleaders and police.
Uga taking trying to "sic" anyone who is out of line!
I remember a recent Georgia Tech-Clemson game when the Clemson tiger took a little taunting by Buzz personally and had to be restrained by police.
And since when did Uga ever keep anyone in line? I'd like to see someone punt that little mutt...that would be well worthy of a "top mascot moment!" Temple/St Joes hoops. The TU Owl tried to put an inner tube over SJU Hawks head in an attempt to pin his wings so he'd stop flapping. A ruckus ensued with both mascots being ejected.
During high school a buddy of mine was the mascot and another guy I knew jumped off of the railing (about 6 feet) in the first row of the football stadium and tomahawked him as he landed on him and knocked him unconsius. It was supposed to be funny (which it really was) but caused him to go to the hospital. Still hilarious anyways.
There was a fight between Oski (Cal's mascot) and the Stanford Tree a few years ago during a college basketball game.
OSU's PISTOL PETE stood on top of the OU dugout and swept dirt on the OU players in the 9th inning as OSU finished off a 3 game sweep of the Bedlam series in 2006. This led to both coaches jawing at each other after the game at home plate, and players close to starting a full-blown brawl. We love our mascot at OSU!!
in the early 1990's, Dwayne Johnson, aka "the Rock" attacked the SDSU mascot during a UM/SDSU football game
I know it's in a movie, but the first swing that Jim Carrey takes at the eagle at the end of Ace Ventura is pure comic genius.
During an FSU/UF game in Tally (I believe it was The Smoke At Doak in 2000), three mascots in sacks 'F', 'S', and 'U' decided to throw down on Al the Gator. Sack The Gator was on, and I remembered seeing Al's head rolling off after getting clobbered by the trio of sack artists. Fitting for the sack fest that occurred whenever Spurrier led his offense in to Doak.
Temple vs St Josephs basketball.. Temple hawk was kidnapped at half time on the court. Not sure what the year was. Possibly early 80's?
I gotta say it's Vince Carter jumping over that 7'French mascot Fredreich Weiss! :)
In the early 80's some LSU students went down to New Orleans, stole the huge stone marker that Tulane sits between their campus and Audubon Park. It showed up a couple of days later in Baton Rouge.
The next weekend some Tulane students made a midnight run up to LSU and let Mike the Tiger, a real-live-Bengal tiger, out of his cage. Early the next morning someone spotted Mike running across campus and students, faculty and staff were immediately locked in their dorms and houses and offices and off campus until handlers and veterinarians could find him, tranquilize him, and cage him. LSU stopped messing with Tulane icons shortly thereafter. Pitt vs Notre Dame 1999.
Final Game at Pitt Stadium. My friend was the Pitt Panther and was in front of the cameras jumping up and mugging for the national television audience. The Notre Dame mascot tacked him from behind and they tussled on the ground, fists swinging with the panther head flying off. My buddy laid into the the notre dame mascot's head just before cbs pulled its cameras away. Popssibly the funniest thing i have ever seen. University of Tennessee Drum Major accidently plowing over one of Marshall's female cheerleaders on accident. He was doing his traditional running through the endzone when she got in his path, and before he noticed she was there, he leveled her. The Thundering Herd mascot immediately came to her rescue and they (the mascot and drum major in full regalia) began to duke it out. Still can NOT believe that it was NOT caught on video-
1989...Miami @ Florida State. Chief Osceola is ready to ride his horse and throw the flaming spear into the home turf...here comes Sebastian the Ibis dressed in full firefighter gear to put out the flame, only to be tackled by the cops and handcuffed for the rest of the game.
This preseason "T-Rac" the Titans Raccoon like mascot hit Adrian Mcpherson with a golf cart while he was warming up for halftime. The guy who plays "T-Rac" is a well known jerk and refused to apologize.
Probably not a televised moment, but I was at a UNLV bastketball game, probably around 1998, against the Oregon ducks. One fan had a bright idea, keep in mind they seel booze at UNLV sports, decided to run on the court on knock the head off the oregon duck mascot. The male cheerleaders chased the fan up the court stairs and proceeded to punch and kick the fan and then hold him up for the beheaded duck to do the same. HILARIOUS!!!
Best mascot on mascot beating ever was during the Maryland-North Carolina game in Chapel Hill in 2001. At the time our Mascot, Ramses, rode a little motor scooter on which he sped around the stadium. The Maryland Turtle took the motorcycle when the Rameses wasn't looking, and took a lap around the stadium. As the Terp came back around to the our student section, Ramses was waiting, and mercilessly closelined the Terp, sending his plushy mascot butt sprawling on the ground as the scooter flew out from under him. Ramses calmly picked up the scooter, and began a victory lap around the stadium with the crowd cheering as the Terp lay there motionless for a good 20 seconds.
then in the mid-late 90s when we were playing Donavan McNabb and Syracuse Orangemen the orange would not leave Rameses alone during the game so during the third quarter I believe Rameses got a giant straw and chased the orange all over Kenan Stadium A Mizzou student coming onto the court to tackle Chief Illiniwek during halftime of a MU/Illinois basketball game.
This is why Michigan doestn't have a mascot...too classy!
During pregame at a high school football game, the rival indian mascot stabs his staff on the 50 yard line. Out of nowhere comes the other teams bear mascot and tackles him mid-field. They did not get into a fight, but the bear had to apologize to the school and was suspended from mascot duties.
I was at the Cal stanfurd game. That tree was nuts, it kept going in the wrong places and flipped out everyone. Only a stanfurdite could be so stupid.
Wabash vs. DePauw (best rivalry in college sports) a few years ago. The DPU Tiger and Wally Wabash squared off for a mock 1 on 1 football game in the endzone during halftime. The tiger was clearly a much better athlete, and scored at will. So, with the DPU fans going nuts, Wally stole the tiger's head and threw it up into the stands on the Wabash side of the field. The head was quickly passed up the crowd, thrown over the back of the stands, and was stolen by some lucky Wabash student. The headless tiger tried to go up into the stands to get the head back, but of course failed. When he finally went back down onto the field, though, he didn't have his tail anymore either. The head makes an appearance on the Wabash side at every Wabash-DePauw game since.
Like a real DAWG is intimidated by hoolow barbs from a "wreck"!!!
Auburn's Aubie taking a diving leap from the stands onto Vandy's Commodore as he unwitingly strolled passed Auburn's student section. Action on the field came to a stand still as everyone watched the fight that ensued (the imfamous tete a tete as called by Auburn radio's Jim Fyffe).
This occured during the 2003 Minnesota-Wisconsin game at the Metrodome. During a timeout, Goldy Gopher was waving around a cardboard version of Paul Bunyan's Axe when a drunk Wisconsin fan went over the railing, grabbed the mock-up, and ran around the end zone with it. When the fan came back towards the tunnel, Goldy clotheslined him. The student section went nuts, and UMPD hauled him off.
Sometime around '97 Georgia Tech was playing Clemson and the Clemson Tigers were ganging up on GT's Buzz. A GT Band member didn't appreciate that and jumped out of the stands, ran over to the fight, and leveled one of the tigers. He dropped a couple elbows on one tiger while Buzz took care of the other. Then he sprinted back to the band section and climbed back up. The band director denied anything happened when the police came over. Best beat down ever.
As an alum of Illinois State University, it was pretty funny during a home basketball game in 2005, our mascot "Reggie" the Redbird came bursting through the vinyl sign, lost a "claw" and did a full on Ricky Henderson impression in front of the Redbird faithful at Redbird Arena. The best part was watching the news that night and having the student security guards laughing to death as he sprawled out on the court.
Auburn War Eagle got off its perch in the mid 1970s and attacked a receiver going in for a score. I think the receiver may have been Wes Chandler from Florida. Auburn got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
Also, I remember Sebastian the Ibis trying to use a fire extinguisher of the FSU chief in the late 1980s. The year before I got to West Point, Army was playing the Ohio Bobcats. A cadet jumped out of the stands and made a beautiful form tackle on the mascot. Unfortunately, the tackle broke the mascot's nose, and the person underneath turned out to be a female.
In 1979, Georgia Tech freshmen (Rats) still lined the field before the start of each home game. The upper classmen started chanting "Rats get the tail", referring to the Auburn Tiget mascot. Hundreds of freshmen dashed across the field (the cops were furious) and a friend managed to cathc the Auburn mascot and yank his tail off. The tail was returned (eventually), and me? I got slugged by a cop for my efforts. I was laughing so hard, I never felt a thing. Go TECH!
Nothing will EVER beat the Stanford Tree and the Cal Bear fist-fighting at a basketball game.
I believe it was 1991 or 1992, but at a Syracuse vs. Penn State football game, the PSU student section convinced the Syracuse Orange to enter the stands to be passed up to the top row of Beaver Stadium, just like they do with the Lion. The Orange made it up about 4 rows before he disappeared. I saw shreds of orange flying in the air.
When I was an undergrad at Penn State in the mid-80s, the Nittany Lion was being passed up through the student section when some idiot ripped off the Lion's tail. At that point the Lion jumped down, punched the guy's lights out and retrieved his tail. The students in the immediate vicinity grabbed the guy until security came and dragged him out of Beaver Stadium. Truth be told, he was probably lucky security grabbed him because it looked like the mascot wanted to beat him to within an inch of his life.
When I was an undergrad at Penn State in the mid-80s, the Nittany Lion was being passed up through the student section when some idiot ripped off the Lion's tail. At that point the Lion jumped down, punched the guy's lights out and retrieved his tail. The students in the immediate vicinity grabbed the guy until security came and dragged him out of Beaver Stadium. Truth be told, he was probably lucky security grabbed him because it looked like the mascot wanted to beat him to within an inch of his life.
The 2005 game between the Fresno State Bulldogs and the LA Tech Bulldogs. Sometime in the second half the two bulldogs met behind the endzone. They playfully jabbed each other a couple times until Timeout, Fresno State's mascot, lunged at LA Tech's dog and took him down. Timeout then jumped on top of him and proceeded to beat the crap out of him until the police came and pulled him off. Definitely the only highlight of the game cause LA Tech beat us.
USC's unofficial mascot during the 50's was a shaggy dog named "George the tire biter." He was brought to games dressed fully in SC gear, including a funny cap. On one occasion, he was taunted by the UCLA Bruin mascot. George responded by leaping at the mascot and biting him on the nose, to the cheers of thousands.
Not as good as that northwestern state beat-down, but still good. Back in 98, Tulane was at Rutgers (where Shaun King was putting a whooping on the Scarlet Knights) and a Rutgers students came out of the stands and tackled the Tulane mascot. The cops showed up, threw the kid on the ground while the TU mascot got down next to him and started pointing and laughing. The kid got hauled off while the TU mascot mocked him.
During halftime of a Nuggets game, I once saw a game of mascot basketball. On one team was Rocky (the Nuggets mascot) and on the other was Tony The Tiger (Frosted Flakes). What made it funny was that they were the only 2 playing that could actually do anything. The rest of the mascots included The Kool-Aid character (whose arms are too small to dribble and shoot) and the Colorado lottery ball (who had no arms). Good laughs all around.
They haven't done a reality college show because it'd have to be on HBO to be viewed .. whether it be language, partying, drinking, underage drinking, drugs, etc. whether or not the student is partaking, the people around them are & all those things would have to be edited out, which leaves you with very little true college life. Trust me, we, along with many other producers have had that idea on paper every meeting. Having a spotlight (basing the show around one individual) who has ties to all those aspects that make up the university is a clever way to go.
Mr. Miami, not a bad idea with highlighting the fsu cheerleader idea if she truly is involved in various things to create a larger audience. The only problem .. the university would have to support it if it was truley a "reality" show .. would they not? And that would never fly ... Being a Saint Joe's alum and fan, I've seen numerous times where the Hawk has been involved in fights (the Hawk has NEVER started them), but the most interesing event I've seen is where some Duquesne fans once mugged the Hawk at their court and the ENTIRE Saint Joe's team came over and broke it up. Hey, the Hawk's not only a mascot, but a team mate! You get that at any other school...I don't think so.
Peruna, the SMU mascot, kicked the Fordham Ram, killing it instantly. Go Mustangs!!!
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