The BAM Mascot Family Blog

No Limits Football Club is no ordinary sports team. Set up by Peter and Brenda Gabriel , the No Limits Youth Organization was created in 2012 to offer opportunities that did not already exist in the Belleville, Ontario community.

Inspired by their own children and the shortfalls in the choices available, the organization became a non-profit corporation in November 2014. Just a couple of months later, in January 2015, No limits launched their football program with a winter camp. More than 50 children took part. 

If you were one of the millions of football fans around the world who tuned in for the FIFA World Cup games, you most likely enjoyed the game’s sports mascot. Each FIFA World Cup since England’s World Cup victory in 1966, has had its own mascot which represents the competition and its home country.

World Cup Willie (England’s 1966 mascot) was one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition, but sports mascots now play a significant role in representing a particular event or a specific sports team. 

Your organization has been talking about creating a mascot for a while now, but what is the best way to design a mascot as a team? Sometimes working collaboratively can be tough, and working as a team can sometimes trigger the age old expression ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’, so how can you design a mascot together? Here’s some things to consider when creating a mascot as a team.