The Eagles' version of Swoop
The mascot Swoop is used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. One of the most notable mascots named Swoop is used by the NFL Football team the Philadelphia Eagles. Various American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots. The "Swoop" character is sometimes depicted as an American Bald Eagle or some type of bird wearing a sports jersey of the team that "Swoop" represents.
[edit] Professional athletics
[edit] Philadelphia Eagles
During the NFL regular season, Swoop regularly appears as an animated character in the weekly Eagles Kids Club television show. Since the show's debut in 2005, the animated version of Swoop has been serving as a host of this show.
Swoop made a cameo appearance in an NFL Shop commercial where a thief disguised as a kangaroo mascot tried to steal Philadelphia Eagles jerseys from the locker room after a game. Swoop walks into the locker room and the kangaroo tries to escape but the security guards catch it.
[edit] American universities
[edit] Eastern Michigan University
Swoop, Eastern Michigan University's Mascot
Swoop is the name of the mascot that represents Eastern Michigan University. The athletics teams are nicknamed the "Eagles". The Eagles name was officially adopted on May 22, 1991, when the EMU Board of Regents voted to replace the existing Huron (Native American) nickname and logo with the new one. In 1994, EMU adopted "Swoop" as the official mascot for the university.[1]
[edit] Eastern Washington University
Swoop is also the name of the mascot for the Eastern Washington University Eagles. Swoop makes many appearances at all sporting events. Swoop can often be found crowd surfing at a basketball game, or walking the sidelines of football games.
[edit] Emory University
Swoop is also the mascot for the Emory Eagles athletic program. He routinely makes appearances at various athletic events.
[edit] Miami University
Swoop is also the name for the Miami (Ohio) University athletics. He can be found at most sporting events.
[edit] University of Utah
Although known as the Utes, the University of Utah employs a red-tailed hawk named Swoop as its mascot at basketball, football and baseball games. The University of Utah introduced this mascot in 1996 with permission from the Ute Tribal Council. The red-tailed hawk is a bird indigenous to the state of Utah.
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