this is too sad. but, still, about brad pitt from wiki: “He took on various occasional jobs, spending some time as a chauffeur and dressing up as an El Pollo Loco chicken to pay for acting lessons.”
Shades of Barney Gumble reduced to wearing an animal costume in the street to earn his beer money (in The Simpsons)…. all it needs now is a passer-by to warn him “Don’t touch me!”
The right sort of person can have a lot of fun with a job like that.
Alas, I fear Lucas is not that sort of person…
(However, Doc T, I’ve heard that the two major problems with mascot suits are constricted vision and air supply. For that reason, I’d feel sorrier for those whose costumes don’t expose the face. Problem Number Three, as you might imagine, is with Number One and Number Two, and in that respect this looks no better than Reading Rodent.)
Don’t most professional sports teams employ people to run up and down in the mascots’ costume?
If practice in Britain is anything to go by, this would add another ton of self-loathing to Lucas’s state of self-esteem: running up and down the touchline dodging spit, heckling, empty cans (if he’s lucky: the toilets at football grounds are primitive and many fans in the past have chosen to, er, recycle, cans and bottles. Plastic now, mercifully, but imagine having anything like that flying at you, full of….)
The one I remember best is where two teams
came together in a real hate-fest, with a long previoushistory of crowd hooliganism, and the manangement thought the team mascots could help calm things down by going on the pitch together as best buddies. … not a bloody chance, as the crowd was treated to the sureal sight of a six-foot-tall woolly sheep trading insults with, and latterly sharing punches and licks, with the other side’s six-foot tall bee… The police were not pleased at having to go on the field and make the arrest!)
Hmm, no ram v bee, but I did find this one, where the Big Bad Wolf (Wolverhampton Wanderers) re-opens his old grudge against the little piggies (Bristol City)
margueritem about 14 years ago
Poor Lucas.
Sisyphos about 14 years ago
Attitude, Lucas, attitude! You’re scaring the customers!
Edcole1961 about 14 years ago
It takes some courage to wear that kind of costume in public. At least Lucas didn’t chicken out.
Kosher71 about 14 years ago
At least he has the nuggets to wear the costume .
ejcapulet about 14 years ago
At least it’s not a giant condom costume like the president of the BGLAD chapter in my university used to wear during national AIDS Awareness Week.
green_engineer about 14 years ago
Oh, Ej that’s too funny!!
Tantor about 14 years ago
this is too sad. but, still, about brad pitt from wiki: “He took on various occasional jobs, spending some time as a chauffeur and dressing up as an El Pollo Loco chicken to pay for acting lessons.”
The missing M. Smokey about 14 years ago
I’m thinking “Mall Santa”.
3hourtour Premium Member about 14 years ago
…not on Tv,maybe..YouTube…yep…
Ray_C about 14 years ago
Now, here’s a real rabbit:
http://tinyurl.com/2czp7p7
AgProv about 14 years ago
Shades of Barney Gumble reduced to wearing an animal costume in the street to earn his beer money (in The Simpsons)…. all it needs now is a passer-by to warn him “Don’t touch me!”
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
The right sort of person can have a lot of fun with a job like that.
Alas, I fear Lucas is not that sort of person…
(However, Doc T, I’ve heard that the two major problems with mascot suits are constricted vision and air supply. For that reason, I’d feel sorrier for those whose costumes don’t expose the face. Problem Number Three, as you might imagine, is with Number One and Number Two, and in that respect this looks no better than Reading Rodent.)
AgProv about 14 years ago
Don’t most professional sports teams employ people to run up and down in the mascots’ costume?
If practice in Britain is anything to go by, this would add another ton of self-loathing to Lucas’s state of self-esteem: running up and down the touchline dodging spit, heckling, empty cans (if he’s lucky: the toilets at football grounds are primitive and many fans in the past have chosen to, er, recycle, cans and bottles. Plastic now, mercifully, but imagine having anything like that flying at you, full of….)
The one I remember best is where two teams came together in a real hate-fest, with a long previoushistory of crowd hooliganism, and the manangement thought the team mascots could help calm things down by going on the pitch together as best buddies. … not a bloody chance, as the crowd was treated to the sureal sight of a six-foot-tall woolly sheep trading insults with, and latterly sharing punches and licks, with the other side’s six-foot tall bee… The police were not pleased at having to go on the field and make the arrest!)
AgProv about 14 years ago
Hmm, no ram v bee, but I did find this one, where the Big Bad Wolf (Wolverhampton Wanderers) re-opens his old grudge against the little piggies (Bristol City)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQokPUt8J8g
Apparently it happens in America too:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zo93CRhm0k&feature=related
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
The Stanford Tree exists specifically to be reviled and abused.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree