The Saginaw Spirit held a vote on their website to name a new secondary mascot for the 2006–07 season. The mascot was named Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle after Stephen Colbert. Colbert had promoted the contest on his show, The Colbert Report. After naming the mascot after Colbert, the Spirit won seven straight games before losing to the Sarnia Sting on October 20. Since then, The Colbert Report has featured ongoing comedy sketches related to the team, the mascot, and other teams in the Ontario Hockey League, especially the Oshawa Generals, and Oshawa, Ontario, mayor John Gray. (from wikipedia)
On Feb. 27th, 2007 Colbert noted on his show that Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle was named a top mascot on Gameops.com in 2006, behind only the Toronto Raptor. As a result, the Toronto Raptors were moved from "on notice" to "dead to me" list on his show.
In the segment Colbert covers the Gameops.com Best Mascot award, noting that "Gameops.coms is the big time" which lead to the most single day hits in the site's history (showing that Colbert was actually the "big time"). The lexus of Gameops.com, the Steagle Colbeagle Character and Colbert's self-professed greatness lead us directly to The Golden Steagle™as our bobblehead character.
Special thanks to Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle and the Saginaw Spirit for allowing us to use the likeness for our new award. We also thank Steven Colbert for his generous assessment of our importance and also for his inherent greatness.
Starting in 2007 Best of Gameops.com award winner will receive The Golden Steagle™ Bobblehead trophy to commemorate their award.
Click here to see the show segment from Comedy Central's Motherlode
See the Best of Gameops.com Winners
