Mascot

====A mascot is any person, animal, or item notion to carry luck, or whatever used to represent a group with a commonplace public identity, inclusive of a faculty, professional sports activities crew, society, army unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional, consultant spokespeople for client products, consisting of the rabbit utilized in advertising and marketing for the General Mills brand of breakfast cereal, Trix.==== ====In the sector of sports activities, mascots are also used for vending. Team mascots are regularly associated with their respective crew nicknames. This is specially true whilst the team's nickname is something that is a dwelling animal and/or may be made to have humanlike characteristics. For greater summary nicknames, the team may additionally opt to have an unrelated person serve as the mascot. For example, the athletic groups of the University of Alabama are nicknamed the Crimson Tide, at the same time as their mascot is an elephant named Big Al. Team mascots may also take the shape of a brand, individual, live animal, inanimate object, or a costumed person, and frequently appear at crew fits and different related activities, sports mascots are regularly used as marketing gear for their teams to children. Since the mid-20th century, costumed characters have supplied teams with an opportunity to select a fantasy creature as their mascot, as is the case with the Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, and the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot, Gritty.====