Congrats to the Flyers and their fan base!
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Wait. The flyers won?
EDIT: Whoa! Just checked. Didn’t see that coming. Saw them down 2-1 when checked in briefly.
EDIT: Whoa! Just checked. Didn’t see that coming. Saw them down 2-1 when checked in briefly.
But the real winner was of course gritty.
Which got me thinking: what are the top 5 pro mascots? I’ve got four, in no particular order.
KGB chicken
Phanatic
Gritty
Gorilla
Which got me thinking: what are the top 5 pro mascots? I’ve got four, in no particular order.
KGB chicken
Phanatic
Gritty
Gorilla
The Phanatic is in a class above all others by a wide margin. Dave Raymond (son of Delaware legend Tubby Raymond) was the better Phanatic .... but Burgoyne is still great as the character as well
Sorry but while I love the phanatic the kgb chicken is my number one.
The fact that gritty is on the list so immediately is quite a testament.
Indeed. Lasorda was a pretty good showman in his own right. Sorta reminded me of my uncle
The Lasorda wars were awesome. When Tommy lost a lot of weight he started shilling for Slim-Fast. He was on TV commercials and all.
One of the Phanatic's bits is he takes the plastic replica batting helmets of whoever the Phillies were playing and he'd lay them out near the visiting dugout. Then he'd take one of the big iron tampers the ground crew uses and go out and with much pomp and circumstance he'd smash the batting helmets to the delight of all. One day against the Dodgers he came out and laid out cans of Slim-Fast and started smashing them.
One of the Phanatic's bits is he takes the plastic replica batting helmets of whoever the Phillies were playing and he'd lay them out near the visiting dugout. Then he'd take one of the big iron tampers the ground crew uses and go out and with much pomp and circumstance he'd smash the batting helmets to the delight of all. One day against the Dodgers he came out and laid out cans of Slim-Fast and started smashing them.
In the 83 Phil’s os series my uncle was working for the dodgers and we went to every game. After game 2, when we were leaving Baltimore long after the stadium had cleared out, we saw lasorda in the parking lot, seemingly trying to hit on two girls by asking “which way to Philadelphia?”
Hope this link works, the relevant text starts at p186. They loved to mess with Tommy.
https://books.google.com/books?id=l...onepage&q=phanatic smashing slim fast&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=l...onepage&q=phanatic smashing slim fast&f=false
How did Gritty rocket to the top 5, I mean I like the Phila teams and all. I'm not a big hockey fan at all but Gritty was roundly ridiculed mere months ago when he made his debut. People took a giant collective shiz on Gritty. Now he's in fans' top 5's of all time mascots? The stadium stunt yesterday was cool. I don't care where Gritty lands up but I don't understand the hatred and ridicule, lo these short months ago where now Gritty has become sort of a Ginger Folk Hero and I demand answers as to why. The Flyers, from what I know, kinda stink. Is it the googly eyes? Is that the recipe now?
I think Gritty is like the movie point break. So outlandish that it becomes a cult favorite. amazing turn around for him.
Give it time but rudedude told me that Gritty was going to come out of the closet on St. Patrick's Day!!
I too ridiculed gritty at his debut. Mea culpa! But he rocketed to the top 5 because he is so perfectly aligned with the Philadelphia fan base. Unpredictable, borderline psychotic, violent, and once ina great while, heartwarming.As I’ve said before, an orange version of Malcolm nacdowell in clockwork orange.
The eyes also help. I studied them closely. They are like inverted weebles in that they generally stay in that fixed deadeye stare, except when the head deviates from vertical significantly, in which case they are like the shark described by Robert Shaw in jaws.
