{"id":347159,"date":"2026-06-23T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:49:33","slug":"which-el-paso-mascot-won-the-title-of-most-valuable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347159\/","title":{"rendered":"Which El Paso Mascot Won The Title Of Most Valuable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso businesses, schools, teams and the city of El Paso itself has a number of cool mascots roaming around. Here are the top 5 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the area, you&#8217;ll find several mascots and Las Cruces has at least one that I know of &#8211; Paydirt Pete&#8217;s arch rival, Pistol Pete. (He even copied Paydirt&#8217;s name, no wonder there&#8217;s tension there.) I did an informal survey and here&#8217;s how the top 5 shaped up.<\/p>\n<p>There are several, well known mascots roaming around El Paso including Amigo Man, (who just turned 50), Paydirt Pete, (UTEP), Chico Chihuahua, (Chihuahuas), Spike, (Rhinos), Ozzy, (Locomotive), Biiip &amp; Rue, (El Paso Children&#8217;s Hospital), Gus &amp; Goldie, (El Paso Parks And Recreation), just to name some of the best known ones.<\/p>\n<p>To rank the top 5, I used a highly scientific, well researched, meticulously detailed formula, guaranteed to be as accurate as My Cousin Vinnie&#8217;s torque wrench. (NSFW language.)<\/p>\n<p>The method? I asked about 10 &#8211; 15 people I saw over the weekend and then skewed it my way a little.<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 El Paso Mascots<\/p>\n<p>After I narrowed it down to 5, I asked the on air staff, (KLAQ, KSII and ESPN 600), to rank them. Here&#8217;s how that came out:<\/p>\n<p>El Paso&#8217;s Top 5 Mascots<\/p>\n<p>The 5 Most Popular Mascots In El Paso<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/author\/ggarza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dubba G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How The Judges Ranked &#8216;EmBuzz Adams &#8211; Paydirt, Chico, Ozzy, Spike, AmigoJoanna Barba &#8211; Chico, Ozzy, Paydirt, Amigo, SpikeNico Something &#8211; (He wasn&#8217;t here, go figure.)Kevin Vargas &#8211; Chico, Amigo, Spike, Paydirt, OzzyDaniel Paulus &#8211; Spike, Chico, Paydirt, Ozzy, AmigoIris Lopez &#8211; Chico, Paydirt, Amigo, Ozzy, SpikeGriz &#8211; Amigo, Paydirt, Chico, Ozzy, SpikeSteve Kaplowitz &#8211; Chico, Paydirt, Amigo, Ozzy, Spike<\/p>\n<p>As for me, it was Chico &#8230; even though he did try and steal my Harley once &#8230; Ozzy, (mostly because he&#8217;s a bat named Ozzy. Get it? <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-summer-entertainment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Soccer, isn&#8217;t really my thing<\/a>.), Spike, Amigo and then Paydirt.<\/p>\n<p>The Final 5<\/p>\n<p>Chico is, hands &#8230; well, paws, actually &#8230; down the MVM. (Most Valuable Mascot)<\/p>\n<p>Paydirt Pete gets 2nd place. Ozzy, Spike and Amigo Man are running neck and neck so I&#8217;ll give the advantage to Amigo Man. As for Spike and Ozzy, only Spike got #1 with anybody, so he gets the edge. Final score:<\/p>\n<p>Chico ChihuahuaPaydirt PeteAmigo ManSpikeOzzy24 Unique or Odd Texas School Mascots<\/p>\n<p>People are proud of these unique mascots in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/billyjenkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top 5 Most Ridiculous College Mascots of all Time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso businesses, schools, teams and the city of El Paso itself has a number of cool mascots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-347159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}