Fulham F.C. of the early grounds listed below are likely to have been parks and parkland, which have now been developed. Even when the club purchased Craven Cottage and the surrounding land in 1894, they had to wait two years before they could play a game there. The Fulham mascot is Billy the Badger, who was the winning design sent in by Kyle Jackson after an online competition by the club. Billy the Badger wears the number 79 Fulham shirt, in reference to the club's year of founding, 1879. Controversy first surrounded Billy when he tried to cheer up Chelsea manager Avram
European badger (digger) has also been suggested as a source. A male badger is a boar, a female is a sow, and a young badger is a cub. A badger's home is called a sett. Badger colonies are often called clans. The far older name "brock" (Old English: "brocc"), (Scots: "brock") is a Celtic loanword (cf. Gaelic "broc" and Welsh "broch", from Proto-Celtic "*brokko") meaning "grey". The Proto-Germanic term was "*þahsu-" (cf. German "Dachs", Dutch "das", Norwegian "svin"-"toks"; Early Modern English: "dasse"), probably from the PIE root "*tek'-" "to construct," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts