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602.0. "Football Mascots - Latex loons we don't need!" by WOTVAX::DAVIESG (I had too much to dream last night) Tue Mar 04 1997 13:38

    Well it's lunch time and I was reading the latest notes and my mind
    wandered onto this subject and I couldn't find a topic to cover it!
    
    So I thought I would share my thoughts on the matter with everyone
    else, just in case any of you are as sad as me and think its a topic
    worth discussing.
    
    Yes, its football Mascot time!
    
    You know, those strange characters that look like rejects for mid-1970s
    Its a Knockout (when actually the European leg, but I can't spell Games
    Without Frontiers in French!), who wobble around the pitch pre-match
    and half-time waving at the home fans, throwing sweets at children and
    getting roundly abused by the away support!
    
    I'm sure these sad characters aren't just restricted to the Premier
    League and the Football League, but I'd like that confirmed.
    
    How do people get this job, surely it can only appeal to masochistic
    paedophiles? Whats the job spec? Only someone of a very dubious nature
    would want to spend two days a week wandering around a football stadium
    sweating away in a gross latex costume while trying to entice small
    children to his side! 
    
    I nominate my own teams mascot as the worst I've seen. Harry the Hatter
    at Luton is simply awful and dead embaressing, away fans can't even be
    bothered to hurl abuse at him, he's so sad! In case any of you have
    been lucky enough not to visit Kennilworth Road and see this
    monstrosity in action, Harry the Hatter is one of the few mascots that
    actually have a (sub-)human form. He wanders around in our latest
    garish home strip with a rather manky straw boater stuck on his head!
    He looks like Postman Pat after a severe drinks and drugs binge -
    terrible!
    
    Reputedly there are worse than this! Scarboro's is a mange ridden
    Seagull which apparently took a bit of a bashing from the Hull City
    fans this season! Apparently when the said Seagull reached the Hull
    end, two lads ran out from the crowd and tried to "mount" it.
    Apparently this caused so much amusement that it took the stewards at
    least 5 minutes to rescue the unfortunate bird! Alledgedly the Scarboro
    fans cheered the Hull supporters for their quite correct behavior
    towards this sad phenomena.
    
    Is Grimsby's a haddock?
    
    Does football need this kak? I think not. Anyone else care? Even better
    can anyone top the Scarboro Seagull's deflowering, I think we should be
    told!
    
    Guy

For more mascot mayhem check out Talk of the Tyne's look at the little 
plastic buggers (and more) ...

http://www.swan.co.uk/TOTT/strange.htm#mascots

Cheers,

Michael.

    
    
    Harry the Hatter eh? Well by pure coincidence Heart of Midlothian
    happen to have a very similar sad git running around Tynecastle under
    the name of Hearty Harry!!! This character is also of a (sub-)human
    form and is not to be trusted near kids!The reason however that
    'Hearty' can't be trusted with the kids is because a few months ago
    none other than super Ally McCoist of Glasgow Rangers took to the field
    at Tynecastle dressed as Harry and to the disgust of the Hearts
    faithful revealed his identity! I mean just imagine the next Rangers
    player to take part in this cruel deception was RICHARD GOUGH!!!!!
    
    
                                         GAV.
    

In the 70's Kilmarnock had a real live mascot. Because of the town being known
for BMK carpets and their symbol being a sheep, Killie had a live sheep that
roamed around Rugby Park. 
I'm not sure of its name, but the one fact I can tell you is that the 
biggest gates at the time were always against Aberdeen 8^)

                    JW

Oh fonts of knowledge;

 Who's the buffoon on the Coke ad dressed as an eagle support then ?


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 Mad

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