South QLD Gryphons: GO GRRRRRRR-YPHONS. A gryphon is a legendary creature with the body and tail of a lion (Brisbane Aussie Rules team), the head, beak, wings and claws of an eagle (Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles feeder club) and horns on his head.
Their favourite meal is HORSE (Brisbane Broncos) which is perfect for the local rivalry. They will be wearing Royal Blue, Silver and Maroon in a traditional hoop pattern kit. Its a very original and unique name that represents Brisbane through its coat of arms. This mascot has more meaning and history to it than the other more American suggestions. The club logo will incorporate the Brisbane crest in the centre and a gryphon on each side of a SQRLFC shield. At the bottom it will say SQ GRYPHONS. The use of a coat of arms will make it similar to the Wigan Warriors unique logo. As the lion was traditionally considered the KING of the beasts and the eagle was the KING of the birds this makes the gryphon a powerful and majestic KING of the creatures (Brisbanes Wally Lewis is THE KING). Gryphons are known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions (this new club will become one of the richest NRL clubs).
In heraldry (the study of coat of arms), the gryphon symbolises courage, boldness, strength, leadership and intelligence. When referring to them in The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Flavius Philostratus said they were superior to dragons, tigers and elephants. In the Britain, a male griffin can be shown without wings, its body covered in tufts of formidable spikes. Some traditions say that only the females have wings. (The logo and mascots can include both a male and female gryphon to satisfy both genders of the fan base).
It is also the name of one of the oldest debating institutions in England (where the rugby codes originate and debating is a constant in sport). In 1933, when announcing the naming of the mascot, Canisius College president, the Very Reverend Rudolph J. Eichhorn, S.J., said: [It] should display at all times loyalty and courage in the face of any odds; [it] should be superior, in the good sense, to the commonplace; and like the gryphons who kept watch over the material treasures of gold and precious stones, so should [it] guard the intellectual, spiritual and moral treasure which [it has] been given into his keep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin Colours: Royal Blue (relates to the gryphon being a king, its not used in the NRL, it was Valleys Diehards main colour and is similar to the dark blue used by the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles). Silver (represents the rich Silvertails and is opposite to the Broncos gold. The value of Silver relies on quantity over quality and a Russian general once said quantity is a quality of its own) and Maroon (QLD state colour)
