Florida State Seminoles Football Mascot It would take several decades for attitudes to evolve and for the university to fully appreciate the importance of its symbols.

Florida state seminoles football mascot. In fsu s early years native american imagery and mascots were heavily influenced by the hollywood version of the american indians and often bore little or no resemblance to the seminole indians of florida. Fsu football fsufootball march 11 2016 in 1977 florida state university alum bill durham introduced the idea of creating not just a mascot but a tribute to the tribe the school chose as their nickname. Florida state s seminoles pays tribute to osceola who led a tribe that is a celebrated part of our state s history. Osceola and renegade are the official mascots of the florida state university seminoles. Washington s redskins nickname simply perpetuates an ugly ethnic slur. It helps explain why if native american mascots keep ebbing in the united states through the 21st century florida state seminoles could be the last one standing in the 22nd. And so bobby bowden s wife ann helped implement the idea. Instead we have the honor of calling ourselves seminoles in admiration of the only native american tribe never conquered by the u s. Florida state does not have a mascot.