Pairing NFL Mascots With Those Of Soccer’s Premier League

When it comes to football and soccer there are few parallels to be drawn between the two sports, other than the fact that teams start a game with 11 men and take a break at half-time.

However, there is one thing that binds the sports together: their love of a good mascot.

Whether it is a grown man dressed as a bear or a local chancer donning a dinosaur getup, mascots are one thing that the powers-that-be in both sports don’t appear ready to do without just yet.

In this article we have done the unthinkable, daring to pair NFL mascots with their Premier League counterparts. Get ready for a wild ride into the weird and wonderful world of the mascot.

KC Wolf of Kansas City Chiefs and Wolfie of Wolverhampton Wanderers

The man who dons the KC Wolf costume is the longest running mascot in the whole of the NFL, with his character named after a group of Kansas fans called the Wolf Pack, who used to sit behind the home team’s bench and holler advice. These days he’s a pretty well behaved wolf, being a true ambassador for his franchise as well as getting hugely excited when they defied all the Super Bowl odds in 2020, to claim the sport’s ultimate prize.

It seems only right to pair KC Wolf with another of his kind, Wolfie, who represents Birmingham-based-outfit Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wolfie has not been quite as well behaved as his Kansas counterpart, getting into trouble on multiple occasions, once for getting in a tussle with the Three Little Pigs who represented Bristol City at the time. It is unclear whether it was because he threatened to blow their houses down.

Neither KC Wolf nor Wolfie are quite as elegant as the real thing, but that is what makes them lovable

Poe of Baltimore Ravens and Cyril The Swan of Swansea City

Once more, these are two very contrasting characters despite both being avian species. You will not find a much higher brow mascot than Baltimore’s Poe, the giant raven being named after the great writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Whereas Poe brings a touch of class to the weekend’s sporting proceedings, Cyril The Swan is renowned for doing the opposite, displaying behavior in keeping with the side he supports falling from the Premier League in 2018. Among his misdemeanors are him mounting a protest by throwing pork pies onto the pitch and also being fined for charging on to the field of play to celebrate a goal.

Cyril does a disservice to swans everywhere, but fans like him even more for it

Boltman of Los Angeles Chargers and Hammerhead of West Ham

These two are an obvious match not least due to the bizarre decisions club management made to bring them to reality in the first place.

Boltman has since been retired from duty, fading from memory almost as quickly as an out of bounds punt.

Hammerhead, on the other hand, was at first viewed with suspicion by West Ham fans (he is a walking hammer after all) but has since become something of a cult hero on the terraces, with videos often popping up of him challenging other mascots to foot races, playing five-a-side games or even dancing to one-hit-wonder Gangnam Style, which we must say he does with style.

Staley Da Bear of Chicago Bears and Gunnersaurus of Arsenal

Staley Da Bear and Gunnersaurus are two of the most beloved mascots in their respective leagues.

This is somewhat surprising seeing as one is a dinosaur who bears no relevance to anything related to Arsenal, other than that he was dreamed up by a young Gunners fans as part of a club competition to design a mascot.

Meanwhile, Staley Da Bear just has a scary deadpan look on his face the whole time, eyeballing home and opposition players alike.

No matter, for one reason or another these mascots both have won the hearts of their respective fan groups.