FARGO — They’re giant, cartoonish, often fuzzy, and yes, sometimes creepy. But what gets the crowd juiced up as much as your favorite team’s mascot leading the stadium in the YMCA?

Inside the Fargo-Moorhead area resides a haven for mascots.

There’s a giant Muppet-like creature of blue fuzz, a big red dragon and a giant bison with arms like a body builder. There’s also a corn man who bears a mean mug with hairy green legs who often leaves many outside Fargo-Moorhead asking: What is that?

Here’s a look at some of the area’s most recognizable mascots:

From Moorhead all the way to the Twin Cities, there remains no mascot more recognizable in the Land of 10,000 Lakes than Moorhead High School's Spuddy.

From his humble beginnings as a paper-machete costume designed by Brian Coyle in 1962 th

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