Sam
Mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles)
Creator	Bob Moore
Significance	Bald eagle

イーグルサム (Eagle Sam)
Sam the Olympic Eagle
Genre	Sports, Comedy
Anime television series
Directed by	Hideo Nishimaki
Music by	Harumi Ibu
Studio	DAX International Inc.
Original network	Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
Original run	April 7, 1983 – March 29, 1984
Episodes	51
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Sam the Olympic Eagle was the mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics which were held in Los Angeles. He is a bald eagle, which is the national bird of the United States, where the games were held. Intended as a patriotic symbol, being named Sam also suggests a kinship with Uncle Sam, another American symbol. The mascot was designed by Bob Moore, an artist for Disney.

Guests of Disneyland, as well as those reading documentation about mascot designs for the Olympics, often confuse the mascot for another Disney mascot named Eagle Sam, host of the former Disneyland attraction America Sings, and designed by animator Marc Davis in c. 1973. He shares the name of Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show, but the design is vastly different. He is still known as Eagle Sam in Japan, where an animated series of the same name ran during 1983, the year preceding the Summer Olympics. Even after the conclusion of the Games, Sam the Eagle is still used to promote a track and field event, the Mt. SAC Relays at Mt. San Antonio College, specifically its 'LA84 Youth Days' promotion for youth interested in athletics, run by a charitable group founded during the Olympics.

External links[edit]

Eagle Sam (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Preceded by
Vučko (mascot)

Olympic mascot
Sam the Olympic Eagle
Los Angeles 1984

Succeeded by
Hidy and Howdy

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