Rhett on SportsCenter

Since SportsCenter recently aired a commercial with a pair of bird mascots walking into a glass wall, I thought I’d look for SportsCenter commercials with dog mascots in them. Enjoy and happy Friday!

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Rhett Video Links

I received a pair of links to YouTube videos from a former Rhett who came across this blog. The first link takes you to Rhett’s SportsCenter debut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFeEDGUaCw, and the second link is Rhett’s performance at the 2002 National Mascot Championships, in which he placed fourth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcjcFZC-b2I.

If you have any links or photos of your school’s mascot, send them along and they’ll get posted too. You can also send a t-shirt from your school if it has your mascot on it.

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Boston University Terriers

Picking the first school to profile was probably one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make: my alma mater Boston University of course. BU’s mascot is the Rhett the Terrier. According to BU’s athletics website goterriers.com, the Boston Terrier became the mascot on November 15, 1922 (wow, Rhett’s three days away from celebrating his 87th birthday), though another page on the school’s athletics website says that students voted during the 1917-1918 academic year to make the Boston Terrier the school’s mascot.

BU’s colors are scarlet and white, and Rhett got his name from the Gone With the Wind character Rhett Butler because “nobody loves Scarlet more than Rhett.” His most recent national appearance came on the show Wheel of Fortune (click here, here, and here) and he also appeared in an ESPN SportsCenter commercial (click here, 20th second). BU is in the America East Conference which also boasts as canine mascots the Albany Great Danes, Stony Brook Seawolves, and the UMBC Retrievers. In the Hockey East conference, BU squares off against the Northeastern Huskies, and Connecticut Huskies (women’s only).

To read more about Rhett, click here.

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