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Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

10. Fighting Pickle – University of North Carolina School of Arts

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

This mascot represents the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is a masked French-looking bright green pickle, wearing a blue beret. It first originated when the student body asked the design team for some kind of representation of the arts subjects taught at the university. This is why Fighting Pickle is holding a large brush and a clapperboard, and wears a piano patterned belt/tutu. However, it is still unknown why they decided to choose a pickle to represent their art.

The university claims that they intended for Mr. Pickle to have a unique appearance, but the result seemed so strange that he was declared the most unconventional university mascot in an online competition with a total of 2,800 votes. Despite the bad reviews it has received, the university decided to keep it as its mascot, to this day.

9. WuShock – Wichita State University

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

WuShock or Wu for short is a giant, yellow, spirited wheat stalk from Wichita State University. For a lot of wheat, most find it strange that he wears sweatpants and a crew neck, and his facial features have often been compared to an angry Donald Trump. He refers to all students and teammates as “shockers”, which is also the name of the school’s sports teams. The “shock” in its name represents the shock process during the wheat harvest, which is a very common practice in Kansas.

Traditionally, making an impact used to be the calling of most students. They were known to work in a nearby wheat field when they were not in college. Wu has been the proud mascot of WSU since 1948, and after his introduction, he gained such popularity that even Jimmy Fallon jokingly mentioned him on an episode of ‘The Tonight Show.’

8. Artie the Artichoke – Scottsdale Community College

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

This plant-inspired mascot has been the official mascot of Scottsdale Community College since 1972 and, as the name suggests, it’s an artichoke. It is said that he looks more like a “children’s cartoon” than someone who is supposed to spread joy or pride. Artie was brought to life when the students voted for him as a joke, protesting that most of the school’s budget was used for sports instead of academics. The students deliberately wanted the school team’s performance to be “lame”. But Artie, the cheerful vegetable, soon became a lovable and fan-favorite character.

Despite the obvious problem that a vegetable has nothing to do with sports, Artie was hated only for his childish looks. People say that he should have been more appropriate for college students and not kindergarten birthday parties. Still, this result of a random teenage rebellion had the opportunity to meet famous NFL player Patrick Peterson of the Arizona Cardinals football team.

7. Keggy the Keg – Dartmouth College

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

As the name suggests, Keggy is a keg of beer, which surprisingly was approved to be the mascot of a university as prestigious as Dartmouth. Most schools would go to any lengths to stop such gatherings or keg parties to minimize parental concern, but Dartmouth claims to embrace such activity. Keggy is a huge silver barrel with a smiling face, and when he was introduced, he was loved by all the students. However, he was soon banned from home games for inappropriate behavior that the schools or parents did not approve of.

He rose from the ashes 5 years later and is now the unofficial mascot that appears at events where no parents or strangers are involved. Keggy was recognized throughout the media, including a mention on ESPN and in Playboy magazine as “something stupid about beer.”

6. The Fighting Okra – Delta State University

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

Following a physical altercation, the official mascot of the Delta State University Statesmen was temporarily suspended. As a replacement, the Fighting Okra won the student vote to be the unofficial mascot of the university. He is a large, gloomy-faced Okra, who wears dull boxing gloves. Fighting Okra is believed by the students and team players to be more fierce and frightening than his Statesmen mascot and looks better with the visiting athletic team’s squad and cheerleading squad. Originally, it was the baseball and basketball players who decided that their interim mascot should be more “mean and green”.

But in doing so, they made their university more commonly known for their odd pet Okra and found themselves on many “worst pet” lists. But the items didn’t faze them, and they continued to occasionally bring Fighting Okra onto the field again.

5. Stanford Tree – Stanford University

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

Stanford has been commonly known for its beautiful redwoods in the area, prompting the University band to select a tree as their unofficial mascot. The Stanford tree also appears as the institute’s logo and has often been featured at sporting events involving the band since 1975. The costume, which was previously featured by Christine Hutson, consists of a tree with huge eyes and what it looks like. people say it’s red lipstick. on her lips

But the role of the Stanford Tree is taken so seriously that an audition is held every year to see who can best fit its shoes. Some students even take it upon themselves to create their own Stanford Tree costume and wear it on campus for big school events. The Tree got most of its popularity from “worst pet” lists in America.

4. Weezy the Boll Weevil – University of Arkansas

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

Often mistaken for an alien, the University of Arkansas’s Weezy is a beaked insect that feeds on flowers. The fleecy-skinned green mascot wears a t-shirt and has a long, droopy nose and two long antennae. He is often seen with his supporting character “Blossom”, which is a flower that he feeds on.

As inappropriate as it sounds, many people wait for the opportunity or a vacancy to be Weezy or Blossom, because the selected student receives a generous scholarship in return. Weezy’s team, the “boll weevils,” was recently ranked the number one funniest team name by the Deseret News and was ranked number 19 on the 2011 list of worst pets.

3. Battling Bishop – North Carolina Wesleyan College

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

North Carolina Wesleyan College’s Battling Bishop athletes are represented by a bishop in a long red robe with a black belt and have been their mascot since 1925. Mr. Bishop received a makeover in 2010 when his encouraging smile was replaced with an angry frown that most of the students felt seemed too serious and stern for a sports mascot.

It has also been mentioned on most media platforms that a bishop is a very strange symbol for sports teams, which is why Mr. Bishop is only recognized in negative conversations. However, NCWC refuses to change its mascot as the school has explained that they have a significant history involving bishops riding horses, which is what inspired them to choose Mr. Bishop.

2. Speedy the Geoduck – Evergreen State College

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

A geoduck is a large, slimy, mud-burrowing mollusk found on the west coast of North America, where it is sold for eating raw and weighs more than two pounds. Speedy, when first designed by Evergreen State College, looked like an alien with a shocked face, adorned in a taco and shorts. The school stated that they wanted a mascot different from other typical and aggressive mascots and Speedy represented the essence of the university motto of him, which is to be willing to “dig deeper into what one wants to achieve”.

Over the years, Speedy has received many makeovers, from looking like a “tricked pickle taco” to a very literal looking real-life geoduck that has been labeled “disgusting”, to the newest mascot and darling, he seems like a warm and approachable Turtle. Speedy is considered famous and has been mentioned in Time magazine, on Fox Sports, BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and many other media platforms.

1. King Cake Baby – New Orleans Pelicans

Top 10 Worst Mascots of All Time in the World

This pet has sent chills down the spine of children and adults alike due to its appearance, which has been dubbed “nightmare material” on several occasions. King Cake Baby is a giant-sized baby who wears a crown and wears ill-fitting diapers, with a bib that says “I Love Baby Cake” around his neck. King cake traditionally, is a donut-shaped cake inside which bakers hide a small plastic baby and whoever finds it in their piece of cake is considered to receive good luck and blessings or sometimes even considered a prediction of pregnancy.

But how a King Baby cake fits the needs of the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans team is a question no one has been able to answer. It has been named the most grotesque and disturbing pet by countless articles. Pierre the Pelican is the official mascot of the New Orleans team, but when the King Cake Baby makes occasional appearances near Mardi Gras in the US, his impact shakes everyone on and off the basketball court.