Osceola and Renegade
The Osceola and Renegade mascots were conceived by Bill Durham, a Tallahassee businessman and Florida State alumnus. He came up with the concept of a horseback-riding Seminole mascot as early as 1962, when he was voted into the school's homecoming court. He returned to the idea in 1977, and won the support of Ann Bowden, wife of head football coach Bobby Bowden, who helped make the idea a reality. Durham contacted the Seminole Tribe of Florida about the project, and chairman Howard Tommie had tribe members make the first costume for Osceola. Durham provided the horse, while Bowden helped acquire the various permits necessary to allow a horse onto the field.
List of NHL mascots
Stanley C. Panther and Viktor E Rat are the two mascots of the Florida Panthers. Stanley C. Panther was named in 1995 by Darrel Ambrosini and is an anthropomorphic Florida Panther, hence the name of the team. He is named for the Stanley Cup. Viktor E. Rat was named in October 2014 in honor of the club's 1996 Stanley Cup Final run where rats were tossed on ice and is an anthropomorphic rat. At the beginning of the 2007–08 season, the Panthers added another mascot that is half the size of Stanley, hence the name "Mini Stanley". Due to Mini Stanley's smaller size, he is a mascot that caters more to children.