Mascots serve an integral purpose at sporting events: to entertain even when the team the mascot works for is lousy.
Just ask the handful of former Montreal Expos fans how they felt about their beloved Youppi.
Just this week the Tampa Bay Rays unveiled their new mascot: DJ Kitty (pictured).
DJ Kitty is based on a scoreboard video of a cat in Rays attire spinning some beats that the club plays during games. The bit has become a huge hit, so the real life version will serve as the team's secondary mascot.
Before trying out crazy uniform combinations the Oregon athletics program introduced a secondary mascot known as "Roboduck." The aquatic bird-Green Lantern hybrid didn't last.
Fan favorite Phillie Phanatic has been weirding out baseball fans for decades.
That's a blue blob crowd surfing at a Xavier University basketball game. It's name? Blue Blob.
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