The Saints began searching for a mascot almost immediately after New ... would stick with a St. Bernard — this time a human in a costume. The team went with James “Skeet” Hanks, who had ...

Maybe Tom Benson was being kind to Gumbo IV." By 1998, the Saints had replaced the dog with a human inside a mascot costume. We head to the lakefront this week to continue our look at local ...

One that Hauth and his wife, Marilyn, would train, costume and wrangle ... How did the Saints find you? They were looking for somebody to train a pig mascot for them and put ads in the paper.

Some St. Paul Saints fans think that the minor league baseball team has dropped the ball, expressing frustration online over the team naming its latest pig mascot after Ozempic, a well-known ...

Students and fans rejected the costume, and it was quickly retired. The previous version came back. UT settled on the Smokey we know today in 1988. Since then, the Smokey mascot has won three national ...