The following is a list of the mascots of each

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team.

Current mascots

Other and former mascots

In 2003, the

Calgary Stampeders The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta. The Stampeders compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The club plays its home games at McMahon Stadium and are the third-o ...

introduced another mascot of sorts, "Quick Six," which is an actual

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. Quick Six continues a Stampeders tradition, which began in 1993, of having a horse charge down the east sidelines of a field, after Calgary scores a

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. Out of the nine current CFL teams, only one has replaced their mascot, the

Toronto Argonauts The Toronto Argonauts (officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club and colloquially known as the Argos) are a professional Canadian football team competing in the CFL East Division, East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), based i ...

. Prior to Jason, the Argonauts had a mascot named "Scully," who was "traded" by the team, for Jason, in 2003. Jason was later, "promoted to starting mascot," in 2005. The now defunct franchise, the

Ottawa Renegades The Ottawa Renegades were a Canadian Football League franchise based in Ottawa, Ontario founded in 2002, six years after the storied Ottawa Rough Riders folded. After four seasons, the Renegades franchise was suspended indefinitely by the league d ...

' mascot was Ruffy the Beaver. Nanook was the

Edmonton Eskimos The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at the Brick Field at Comm ...

' only mascot from 1997–2003. Punter was introduced in 2004 as a secondary mascot. They were together from 2004-2020. When the Eskimos' name changed to the Elks, a polar bear would not make sense for a team named the Elks (as well as the animal relating to the controversial name), Nanook was retired in 2021, and was replaced by Spike, an elk. Punter did not get affected by this change. Today, Punter is still the secondary mascot while Spike is the primary. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers original mascot was Captain Blue, who was introduced in the early 1970s. Since 1984 with the introduction of Buzz and Boomer, Captain Blue was made the secondary mascot. Captain Blue is always seen driving his full scale Blue Bomber biplane, which is a life like cartoon replica of the WWI biplane flown under the British Royal Airforce. After every touchdown and field goal scored by the Blue Bombers, Captain Blue drifts his biplane around the end zones. Before Ottawa's mascot Big Joe, the city had a very prominent history of mascots.

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