Brownie the Elf, a mythical creature from British folklore, became the first official mascot of the Cleveland Browns in 1946. The team made him the new midfield logo at FirstEnergy Stadium after a fan vote in 2022. The Cleveland Browns are named after Paul Brown, the team’s first coach, but their mascot is a Brownie, a mythical creature from British lore.
The Cleveland Browns were named after Paul Brown, the team’s first coach, and their mascot is a Brownie. The team’s name was often referred to as “Paul Brown’s Team”, prompting McBride to honor the franchise’s history. As of 2024, the Cleveland Browns’ mascot name is Brownie the Elf, a classic figure from the team’s early years and an important symbol.
The Brown University campus features four outdoor bear statues in celebration of the Brown mascot, Bruno. Both men’s and women’s teams share the name, competing in 34 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports. Bruno served for seven years, growing to 500 pounds before retiring after the 1928 Thanksgiving Day game.
The legacy of the Brown Bear dominates life atop College Hill, with the Alumni Association notably granting the Brown Bear Award to distinguished individuals. Brown’s bear mascots, Bruno and Cubby, attend many athletic, fundraising, and social events throughout the year.
Brown University’s bear mascot originated in the early 20th century when Theodore Francis “T. F”. Green, a professor of Roman law at Brown, chose the bear as a symbol reflecting the values and culture that define the university.
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What is the Brown mascot Bruno?
In 2006, Bear JJ1, a European brown bear, achieved notoriety. Bruno, an American black bear, served as the inspiration for the character of Gentle Ben. The brown bears, the mascot of Brown University, were featured in Edward and Friends and Big Top Bunny.
What is the Harvard mascot?
Harvard University, an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution, is known for its mascot, John Harvard, and its crimson school color. The university offers 80 concentration programs leading to bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees. Located in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, it has an enrollment of over 20, 000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Additionally, the university has 30, 000 other students who take credit courses, non-credit courses, and seminars. Harvard students are often referred to as the subset of roughly 6, 400 students who attend Harvard College.
What is the Japanese brown mascot?
Domo-kun is a brown-furred bipedal creature that serves as the mascot of NHK, a Japanese public broadcasting company. Despite his intimidating appearance, Domo is actually a friendly and gentle fellow. His species, which is unknown, is omnivorous and oviparous, possibly a monotreme. Domo’s favorite food is nikujaga, and he dislikes apples. He was first seen as an egg in a snow field and later found in a den inhabited by rabbit Mr. Usaji, bat Maya, and her son Mario.
Domo hatches from the egg and becomes roommate with Mr. Usaji, Maya, and Mario. He also becomes friends with a teenage weasel girl named Tashanna. Unfortunately, his species is extinct, except for Domo himself. The fact that he communicates by saying “Domo” could suggest that “Domo” is the name of his species.
Why is Brown called Bruno?
Bruno is an Old Germanic surname and given name, originating from the Latin form of the Germanic name Brunus. It is a common surname in Italy, with its origins dating back to the 8th century. The name’s popularity is attributed to influential figures like the monk Bruno of Cologne and the scientific method pioneer Giordano Bruno. The surname has numerous variants, including Bruce, Brunacci, Brunaldi, Brundu, Brunari, Brunella, Brunelleschi, Brunelli, Brunello, Brunengo, Bruneri, Brunese, Brunetti, Brunex, Brunetto, Bruni, Brunini, Brunoldi, Brunone, Brunotti, and Brunei.
What is the Brown University animal symbol?
Brown University’s first mascot was a burro, introduced in 1902 in a game against Harvard. The university initially settled on the Bruin, but later changed it to a bear after placing the bear’s head at an archway above the student union in 1904. In 1905, the Bears introduced Helen, the university’s first live bear mascot, at a game against Dartmouth. Bruno, the current mascot, was introduced in 1921, originally as a live bear.
Brown has produced many notable athletes, including John Heisman, who is the namesake of the Heisman Trophy. Heisman played college football at Brown as a lineman before finishing college at the University of Pennsylvania. Other notable athletes include Thomas A. Barry, Don Colo, Zak DeOssie, Steve Jordan, Ed Lawrence, Sean Morey, Joe Paterno, E. J. Perry, Fritz Pollard, Earl Sprackling, Thurston Towle, and Wallace Wade.
John Heisman, a college American football player and coach, played college football at Brown as a lineman before finishing college at the University of Pennsylvania. Other notable athletes include Thomas A. Barry, Don Colo, Zak DeOssie, Steve Jordan, Ed Lawrence, Sean Morey, Joe Paterno, E. J. Perry, Fritz Pollard, Earl Sprackling, Thurston Towle, and Wallace Wade.
Brown University has a rich history of sports and athletic achievements, with notable athletes such as John Heisman, Thomas A. Barry, Don Colo, Zak DeOssie, Steve Jordan, Ed Lawrence, Sean Morey, Joe Paterno, E. J. Perry, Fritz Pollard, Earl Sprackling, Thurston Towle, and Wallace Wade.
What is the Browns retro mascot?
The team would typically engage in nocturnal activities, exhibiting a proclivity for mischief if they did not receive sufficient acknowledgment. This was evidenced by their performance of a Cleveland-themed brownie.
What is Brown’s new mascot?
The Cleveland Browns will debut Brownie the Elf as their midfield logo in 2022, marking their first appearance since 2016. The running Brownie logo will be displayed at the 50-yard line at FirstEnergy Stadium, marking the team’s first midfield logo since 2016. The choice was met with national acclaim, and the Browns have announced that Brownie the Elf will remain on the 50-yard line for 2023. The decision was made through a fan vote and was met with mixed reactions nationwide.
What is the live mascot of Brown University?
The first live bear mascot, ‘Helen,’ made her appearance at the Brown-Dartmouth game in Springfield in 1905. The bronze Bruno statue sculptured in 1923 extols the ursine qualities of strength, courage, and endurance that make men invincible. The Brown Bear became the University’s mascot after a search for a symbol to represent Brown’s fledgling athletic teams. In 1902, an attempt to find a suitable mascot failed, with a brown and white burro presented to the student body before the Harvard football game. The burro was retired from service, and it would be three more seasons before another mascot would take to the gridiron.
Theodore Francis Green, Class of 1887, finally put the “Bruno” in Brunonia, finding a counterbalance to the Yale Bulldog and Princeton Tiger. After mounting a bear head in the trophy room of the new student union (now Faunce House) on January 20, 1904, the powerful symbol gained wide support. Sketches of bears graced the pages of Liber Brunensis, and bear statuary eventually appeared on campus. In 1905, the Celebration Committee decided to have a live bear at the Dartmouth game, and W.
Douglas Swaffield, Class of 1906, was appointed to find one. The valiant Helen, his mate, received a standing ovation from Brown fans when she entered Hampton Park and stared down the hostile Dartmouth cheerleaders.
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From the George Washington Colonials to the George Washington… Hippos? Erasing history might make you “feel” good, but it …
Colonials stood up to the Empire and fought for and created a self-governing union of states. It was not perfect, but it was a great start. Many of the freedoms we enjoy today were fought for and won by them. Others came later, like abolishing slavery and raising the status of women, etc. But the colonials laid the groundwork by throwing off the yoke to the Empire. The other freedoms followed. Why shouldn’t colonials be honored?
It sounded like the reason to keep the mascots is to teach people of our past by retaining allegedly offensive mascots. I don’t know if that was what the article intended to say but that is what it seemed to say to me. There are mascots that need to go, in my opinion. The ones that comes to mind immediately are not university mascots but the Washington Redskins name and the Cleveland Indians mascot, Chief Wahoo. None others come to mind immediately but there are probably some. It is all a matter of opinion, of course.
For several years our local high school was forced to get rid of the sword on our football players helmets because a few people argued that the weapon encouraged violence. Our mascot is a Sultan and the sword was an Arabian style sword. It took nearly five years for the school to reverse its ban on the football helmets decor.
I had to deal with this at lower levels of education. I went to Lamar High School in Houston, named after Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and an officer at the Battle of San Jacinto. Our old mascot was the Lamar Redskins (which has a sense of historic irony, as President Lamar relocated Native Americans like the Cherokee and Commanches out of Texas). It was my Freshman year that a single HISD board trustee made us and several other schools change their mascots because they were “based on ethnic groups”. Now, we are the Lamar Texans. My Junior year, I learned that the same HISD board trustee was enforcing the renaming of 8 schools whose namesakes had any association with the Confederacy. Lanier Middle School, named after Georgia poet Sydney Lanier and where I went to school, was one of the 8 schools affected and the Confederacy was not even his legacy; he served on a blockade runner as a young man. They got out of it by renaming the school after former Houston mayor Bob Lanier, but still. I have always spoken against name changes based solely on SJW policies and revisionist history. So a particular namesake didn’t;t believe you shouldn’t be allowed to go to that school; go anyway and prove them wrong by doing well.
Take a look at what has happened to the mascot of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.The college came about from people wanting Southern Nevada to have it’s own college from the North at Reno. So there was a rebellion of sorts to break away and start UNLV in Las Vegas. Since UNR was called the wolf pack, UNLV chose call themselves the Rebels and thier mascot was a confederate looking wolf called Beauregard. It was agreed upon that this mascot was historically insensitive to the African-American students attending the college so the mascot was changed to “Hey Reb”, a guy who looked like Yosemite Sam type mountain man carrying a musket. People later on took offense that the mascot carried a fire arm because it promoted gun violence. In response, UNLV got rid of Hey Reb’s musket and made him an over buff Yosemite Sam type guy who was running all over the place. Pretty much far removed from having to do with the Confederacy. After the BLM and Antifa riots, UNLV immediately took down anything to have to do with Hey Reb. Even if they kept the the name Rebels, there is no mascot being displayed and they are thinking of getting rid of the name, Running Rebels. We all joke arround and say the they could call themselves the University of Nevada,, Las Vegas Buffets and thier new mascot could be a guy who looks like the cook from the old Pioneer Chicken mascot, but then again, it may be too offensive becuase it may promote gluttony or be considered cultural appropriation by Jimmy Buffet fans.
I – WAS – a university professor, and I used to have the line, “I wish I had 100 students like …”. Isabel, you are one of those students who would have kept me teaching in in institutions. Instead I opened an English school in Mexico. I wish I could have remained in the US, but “They The People” no longer liked my brand of professorship, so there I go … finding a need and filling it. MAGA!
My high school mascot was the pioneer. One year the athletics director (a sour lesbian) tried to change it because it was ‘sexist’. Everyone else in the entire school was like “excuse me? Absolutely not” We never changed the mascot. Because a pioneer is anyone who it a trailblazer, and we pride ourselves on being trailblazer.
I went to Eastern Michigan University. In the 1990s while Inwasvthere getting a Teaching Certification there was a tempest in a teapot over the mascot. EMU had the Hurons. People found this politically incorrect and complained. They didn’t have a vote. The administration just listened to a minority opinion. The only member of the Huron tribe they could find said he was fine with the mascot. All he wanted was a slight design change of the mascot. He wanted the feather in the mascots hair removed. Hurons didn’t wear feathers. He was happy the university was keeping his people’s name alive. It didn’t matter. It’s now the EMU Eagles; and I will never make an alumni contribution.
Brown probably didn’t get as much time as she needed to make her argument. Is it supposed to be “offensive mascots good because they remind us of a terrible past?” This argument could be convincing if there was a link to progress stemming from offensive mascots. For instance, if having a colonial mascot got students thinking about the horrid past of colonialism and in response wanted to do something about it like ensure they were no longer cheering for colonialists at sporting events or identifying themselves as colonials when asked what school they go to. Maybe they could even start a dialogue on the terrible past of colonialism by suggesting a new mascot. That would be productive. Yes, offensive mascots good.
From having the speaker standing still and looking straight at the camera, To having their words appear on the screen for you to read, I feel like I am perusal an Adam Sandler movie. PregerU article editors thinks their audience is stupid. Also. A side question: When did Social Justice Warriors gain cultural prominence? In 2015? 2017? I don’t know.
It’s not just colleges changing mascots. A high school near me got rid of its Indian mascot. They don’t have a new one yet but last spring someone suggested they be the Snowflakes. Our governor actually signed into law that schools could not have Native American mascots. It’s ridiculous. The depiction was of a Native American spear fishing. It was not derogatory in any way; it was honoring the fighting spirit of the local Indigenous people. We also have Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day in our state.
I got an idea. how about we just make every school mascot a blue robot. this way nobody gets offended. and since you OBVIOUSLY like wasting time and making shit complicated have a white and black gay couple in the background kissing to appeal to LGBT community, this also pushes potential racism out of the picture and if THAT isn’t enough why don’t we just make the robot a transgender.
I’d suggest that they use colors, but, not only are there only so many colors in the human visible spectrum, you just know that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE would claim that certain colors (and, by that, I mean “eventually all”) are triggering and/or that this proposed system is discriminating against the blind and the color-blind.
Vallejo High School’s mascot was the Apaches and the Junior High or Middle school’s were the Papoose. The bleeding hearts were so afraid of offending somebody, anybody or anything so just in case they were banned. I am offended by stupid people, but there are so many of them. Next on the agenda is the military with their offensive tomahawk missiles, the black hawk and yes the Apache helicopters.
As a washington redskins fan, i saw this coming 10 yrs ago. At the time, the redskins name was in the crosshairs. I said at the time, if u think they will be done and satisfied with that name change ( which remains the holy grail of sports name change demands) you don’t know history. And here we are. With people looking to change everything now.
Focusing on mascots allows the students to feel like they are doing “something” while not doing anything of value at all, like focusing on what they can change within themselves to make this world better in the future. Oh, no, it’s so much more important to point out other’s failures & focus on those, especially when they are fictional characters 🤪
Unfortunately, this is one of the many pervasive ways of changing history in the minds of the young. If it becomes acceptable, is pervasive enough and continues long enough, society’s memory of history will change across generations. This is why even the “silly” stuff like this has to be fought. It is very sad and disgusting.
Life would be a lot simpler in America if we could return to pure democracy, by which I mean respecting individual rights rather than group or “cultural” rights. Liberalism is supposed to say that you should be free to do whatever you want as long as it is not blatantly unjust – and offending people, though it is annoying and impolite, is not unjust. Nor is it illegal, with free speech protections in place and no laws against “copyright violations” of non-trademarked cultures.
I know this might seem irrelevant but Miss Brown should have had a little bit of makeup on. We the conservatives need to always look our utmost best. People make up their minds about us within the first ten seconds of meeting us. Or so studies have shown. This means that people pass judgment on us before we even say hello. Mindfulness about our appearance is just as important, if not more so than what say. This may be unfortunate but true. Thank you for your amazing content.
Non of the schools mascots mentioned seem offensive to me, but I get not wanting the redskins to be called the redskin, the name it self is derogatory, maybe the natives would be better, a local school by me is called the Lee Davis Confederates, another name I can see worth changing, keeping it isn’t a good way to remember the “obstacles ” we have overcome, it’s just reminder of the true lack of change that has taken place in that area.
Eastern Michigan Hurons became the EMU Eagles. Huron was considered offensive to Huron Tribe and by default all native Americans. ( Note Chief of the Huron Tribe was AGAINST the name change. ) Central Michigan University was going to do the same going from Chippewa’s to the Cavaliers when the local tribe that still exists in Central Michigan asked Central to keep the name. Frankly I wanted ( and even suggested ) the EMU to change the name to the CAUCASIANS to teach us whites a lesson! Denied. They went a unique name to the most common name. Sad.
Hello, I’d like to add that I completely agree that we cannot erase our history or address and solve the issue of racism, genocide, etc by overall replacing mascots. However, our country came from a basis of people that forcefully raped Native Americans of their land, their food, their health, and their culture (ex. force Natives into boarding schools to “assimilate them into white American culture”). This is just an example of one of America’s sad truths of our past. Our history consists of the Trail of Tears, racism, slavery, and more horrendous things led by historical figures. The question is; do you justify having a racist figure as a mascot because “the past empowers us to learn from our mistakes, but erasing it doesn’t do any good?” Changing a mascot doesn’t erase history, like erasing Jim Crows laws didn’t erase history; America simply learned from its mistake and corrected it by eliminating the unjust laws. Yes, that is an extreme comparison, however, understanding the logic that changing your team’s name from “blue” to “red” doesn’t make people colorblind to blue, it simply allows the team to associate with red, which is something that should be understood by modern and future Americans.
Maybe the voting age should be raised to 25 since this proves college students in today’s world are not willing or incapable of thinking critically on the important issues, but if someone enlists in the military then they should be given the right to vote upon completion of their service because they will have earned the right and have proved that they are mature enough to vote before they are 25
If people voted on it, what’s so bad about it? You may not like it but you can’t decide over what colleges want to be their mascot. Also, the “it doesn’t help the university to do better” can easily be turned around. Does it help the college to keep the name? No, it’s just a mascot and people should be able to pick what they like.
Why is the Notre Dame Fighting Irish not considered offensive. I’d like to think that people of Irish heritage feel that the old stereotype that the Irish settle disputes with their fists is wrong and should disappear with Native American mascots. Northwestern switched from the Fighting Methodists to the Wildcats in the 1920s, in part, because university leaders thought that followers of the Methodist movement should not be thought of as fighters.
I went to high school in Lancaster, New York, which has a history of more than a century. It’s mascot for the last 75-something years has been a “Redskin”. We were known and feared as the “Lancaster Fighting Redskins” ask anyone in the Western New York area. The board eggheads change the name to the “Legends”, and have a knight on the logo which looks a lot like the Crusader of which you had shewn in the introduction. I guess if you want to trash 3/4 of a century of tradition and history for some ilky late-’90’s to present Political Correctness Terrorism, then so be it … but it’s wrong!
Can someone please explain to me how replacing mascots will lead to erasing the past? This just seems like a logical fallacy that takes advantage of people’s shallow-depth thinking. PragerU should perhaps be more focused on educational rights and historical studies articles if “the past empowers us to learn from our mistakes” and the focus is about preserving history instead of erasing it (*already is one step ahead by being a college, good work team*).
I think when more than 1 generation of people live in peace time, they tend to be weak and vulnerable to everything. I know it is kind of a horrable thing to say, because we all want peace, but I think that is what it’s happening. Just an army of vulnerable losers ready to start crying about something no one cares or ever noticed. I mean, our Grandfathers and Fathers died, so people could argue about Washington Redskins being too offensive for pepople that doesn’t even own a TV?
I find the cross she is wearing highly Islamophobic. I think I’ll start a petition to have this article removed from the internet so that I do not accidentally stumble upon it again, and rally some people to stand outside Dennis Prager’s home in the middle of the night making noise so he cannot sleep. Those steps seem reasonable. I guess these college pinheads are also offended by the liberties that Washington and his men’s bravery helped secure for them, so maybe we should take those away.
I am Islamophobic, meaning I am afraid of those people. I have no problem with that. If you want to help me with that, go ahead, but first ask me if I need help. What I don’t understand is: why I am a bad person if I am Islamophobic? I am also ophiophobic, that makes me a bad person too? Someone tell me.
Nice straw man, since literally no one said it would “help the university do better.” I’m not offended by Colonials but I am by “Redskins” so what do you make of that? I’m pretty sure there could be a mascot you found offensive, if it was the South Carolina Slaveowners you’d probably be offended, right? It’s a matter of degree. It’s not that it’s bad to change mascots if they’re offensive, the question is who is offended and why, and do we care? For the “Slaveowners” probably everyone is offended and we care. For the “Redskins” probably people who care about Native Americans care, and the people that aren’t offended are likely not offended because they don’t really care about the Native Americans, and don’t care if they are offended. For “Colonials” probably very very few are offended, because unlike the other two, “Colonial” isn’t a slur. The Colonials may have done some some abhorrent things, but there’s nothing wrong intrinsically with being a colonial. (It’s just they’re associated with a number of bad things.) So in that situation, I’d weigh my own feelings (Colonials? Meh) against who all is actually offended. If 10% of the students there are offended, then even if I disagree with them, I’d be fine to change the name. If for 10% of the students, when they hear “colonial” they associate it with “killing the Indians and taking their stuff” then I’d say just change the mascot. That sounds better than “you are wrong to have that association and since you are wrong I don’t care that you are offended.