The Philadelphia Liberty mascot Bert Bell is quite the mischievous one both on and off the field. He is known for his creative dances with the cheerleaders and for having fun competitions with the fans. The competitions include seeing how fast a fan can eat a cheese steak and if they end up doing it fast enough they win a jersey of thier favorite player whether he plays for the team or they are a retired team legend. So far on a few fans have managed to eat the cheese steak fast enough, with one of them being known as Joe rhe Legend who ate the steak in a record 15 seconds with the fans having a 30 second time limit.
What sets Bert apart from other mascots is just how much the guy who plays him loves his job. He will take pictures whenever people ask and even helps many people around the stadium. He has been known to crash a few sideline interviews and will even do interviews himself where he says his thoughts on the teans performance. He is both well known and well known around the city and he has even signed people's hats and shirts a few times with him taking off his gloves to do it.
Minnesota’s mascot is the Grey Duck. First you may ask, “what is a Grey Duck?” And to that I say, they are a made up waterfowl because Minnesotans do not know how to properly play Duck Duck Goose. They insist it is called Duck Duck Grey Duck like some stubborn drunkards in the same why they think soda is called “pop.” Lunatics I tell you! Regardless, this does give Minnesota a great mascot, as not many sport teams are such lovable birds!
As for the design of the mascot on the field, we would start its design by looking at the actually real animal in the duck, specifically the male Mallard duck. The mascot would have a coloring pattern similar to the mallard, but instead of a green head and brown feathers, our mascot would have a light blue or aqua colored head with grey feathers. This design should mirror our current logo, as it has such a nice color palette. With the colors and overall design locked down, the final piece to our mascot puzzle is the shape. Some may rather go traditional style, a la Oregon and their Donald Duck inspired mascot, and while many would prefer I go the same route, I feel the Grey Duck deserves a much more unique design. I would put the Grey Ducks colors over this gorgeous mascot from Virginia Tech in the 70s and 80s, shown on the left!
Like the Grey Ducks, the Hokie bird is also a made up waterfowl and its such origins also as obscure. What better way for the Grey Duck to be represented?? I don’t think there is any!
The Philadelphia Liberty have a bit of an unconventional mascot. 9 of the 14 teams in the ISFL have animals as their mascot (I'm counting the Yeti as an animal because it's very animal like and I didn't think twice about it) and 3 of 14 have humans (Butchers, Secondline and Outlaws). This leaves only 2 teams in the league who depart from this standard model. The Philadelphia Liberty and the Yellowknife Wraiths. The Wraiths are unique because they're a fictional being, a ghost (don't @me people who believe in ghosts). The Liberty however, are somehow even more unique, as their Mascot is the Liberty Bell, an inanimate object. An addition to this uniqueness, is that the Liberty are the only team whose name isn't their mascot. We aren't the Philadelphia Bells, we're the Philadelphia Liberty. And this uniqueness isn't just for the sake of being special either, it legitimately makes sense as branding for it to be designed this way. All of this combined is what makes Philly's branding special. As far as a bell for a mascot goes, while some people might find it strange or stupid, I think it's awesome because of the strong ties it holds to the city of Philadelphia, and branding that makes sense and has ties to the host city are the best brandings by far.