Fair Lawn Cutters Voted Best Mascot in New Jersey

The Cutters' prospects have looked good for a few days, but now it's finally official: Fair Lawn is home to the best high school mascot in New Jersey.

Fair Lawn faithful voted their beloved Cutters to an incredible 30,284-vote victory in the first round of USA Today's Top High School Mascot contest, which finished up Tuesday at 3 p.m.

The Garnet Gulls of Point Pleasant Beach got off to an early lead over the Cutters in the contest's first two days before the Fair Lawn community became aware of the contest.

As soon as they did, however, it was game over for the Gulls. Within 24 hours of the contest details appearing on this site, Fair Lawn stormed past Point Pleasant Beach and never looked back. The Cutters ended up besting the Garnet Gulls, their closest competitor, by 8,600 votes.

With the state-round win in the books, the Cutters, named for a half-dozen football players who ditched class to catch a movie in Paterson some 70 years ago, advance to the regional round with 50 other schools from across the country.

The regional round begins Wednesday at 11 a.m. and runs until March 14. The rules are the same. Vote early and often!

The contest's six regional winners will then compete from March 15 to 25 for the title of America's best high school sports mascot. USA Today will donate money to the athletic departments of the top five schools nationally.

Click here to see the first-round contest results.

Click here to vote for the Cutters in the regional round, where they're up against seven other high schools in the Northeastern United States.

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