Possible Clues:

• Team's good-luck animal
• Frenchman on course has a reputation for being lucky with the followers
• Team animal
• Army's mule, e.g.
• The Trix Rabbit, e.g.
• Phillie Phanatic, for one
• It's adopted, by a team say, as a symbol
• The San Diego Chicken, e.g
• Grandma's cottage has charm
• The Flyers' Gritty, e.g