One thing I'll say about the Phanatic, though, is that he's a real motherplunker. From Sunday's Phanatic Birthday Party mascot baseball game:
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
OF COURSE, HE STILL HAS PHATHER ISSUES: The Phillie Phanatic has been named America's favorite mascot by Forbes Magazine based on "four key attributes: awareness, appeal, entertainment value and team identification (the degree to which consumers are able to associate a mascot with the team it represents)." The Racing Presidents (now with JFK?) are in sixth; Wally, the Green Monster places eighth. It's unclear where Lady PhaPha placed, and there's no sign of the Yankee Dandy.
One thing I'll say about the Phanatic, though, is that he's a real motherplunker. From Sunday's Phanatic Birthday Party mascot baseball game:
One thing I'll say about the Phanatic, though, is that he's a real motherplunker. From Sunday's Phanatic Birthday Party mascot baseball game:
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First link is borked. Is this what you meant? (And I'll quibble that a few of these are not mascots (the sausage race & Presidents) or connected to a team (and I was never a Chicken fan anyway)). But Mr. Met, the Gorilla and of course Benny the Bull (the only good Chicago mascot since Ribbie and Roobarb were retired) make it a solid list.
ReplyDeleteStill, any mascot is better than Ronnie Woo Woo.
Fixed. Also, I can watch this video all day. It's Zapruder-esque.
ReplyDeleteA good friend of mine from Ravelry designed and wrote a pattern for anyone who would like to knit their own Phanatic.
ReplyDeleteI can't say that anyone's done that for Hip Hop.
Phuck the Phanatic.
ReplyDeleteIf it's not Crazy Crab, I'm not interested. http://www.faniq.com/blog/Video-San-Francisco-Crazy-Crab-Returns--Blog-10383
ReplyDeleteWhat about Big Shot?
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A deeply flawed list that focuses on lazy and overpaid professional mascots and ignores the hardworking college mascots that mascot for the love of the game. Where are the Ottos, the Big Reds, the Bevos - mascots that mascot the right way?
ReplyDeleteI was at that game. Announcing the guest mascots: "And the Rangers'...mascot. Uh...Ranger Captain? Okay."
ReplyDeleteAnd "the Swinging Friar". Really? Like the Church doesn't have enough problems?
ReplyDeleteHee hee hee!
ReplyDeleteIt seriously is. Back..and to the left. Back....and to the left.
ReplyDeleteYou know, someday (and I agree with your point, but I'm just riffing off of it), I'm going to write something up on the retired, racist mascots like Chief Wahoo, Chief Illiniwek and the Notre Dame Leprechaun. The subject interests me, is all, on how they managed to survive so long.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest mascot is the St. Joe's Hawk. Even after getting ejected from a game, he stayed in costume and waved his arms (wings) the entire game in the locker room, because the hawk will never die.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, isn't "favorite mascot" a little like "favorite STD"? If the state fish & game departments sold licenses to beat up mascots, they'd all sell out everywhere, right? My favorite baseball writer, Jeff Sullivan, almost threw down with Harry Canary at a minor league baseball game when Canary sprayed him with Silly String. This is true, and I believe that it is possible to look it up on the Interwebs.
ReplyDeleteSecond, my favorite mascot is the Atlanta Falcons mascot that tried to maim a Pop Warner player during a halftime show. I posted this video here. That dirty bird was homicidal. Just plain awesome.
Zooperstars are not mascots because they are not attached to any team. Also, they are inflatable. Also, because they didn't bring Donovan McCrabb or Stallon Iverson to Philadelphia on Sunday, sticking us with Pee Wee Geese, Ken Giraffey Jr., Ichiroach Suzuki and Mackerel Jordan instead.
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