The Top 10 Weirdest High School Mascots in Texas

The funny thing about your strange high school mascot is you may not have even realized how strange it was growing up. Especially if you grew up rooting for the Wampus Cats, right? It seemed so normal to you 'till right now.

My high school mascot was a knight, which is funny cause no knight ever stepped a single armored toe in the United States of America, let alone in the town I went to school in.

The history of mascots dates back decades, all the way to the 19th century. 

Bobblehall states that "the term is most often linked to a good luck animal. It was sports organizations that started to use animals as mascots to provide some extra entertainment for spectators."

But it's Culture Crush that claims to know the exact origins of American mascots. The site claims that the tradition began in the 1800s when a little boy named Chic, who carried bats and ran errands for baseball players, became known as the team's good luck charm.

According to an 1883 issue of The Sporting Life Magazine, “the players pinned their faith to Chic's luck-bringing qualities” and it was exactly those so-called good luck charm qualities and maybe a little superstition that laid the foundation for what have become the basis of today's mascots.

So, back to Texas. We've got some pretty oddball ones. Do you know where to find The Gobblers? You may already know that Hutto is home of The Hippos, but do you know which school is The Porcupines? How about the aforementioned Wampus Cats?

Do you even know what the hell a Wampus cat is? To this day, there's no tangible proof that they ever existed.