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Who thought it was anything other than utterly ridiculous to dress someone up in a mascot-style poppy outfit and trot them onto the pitch for the minute's silence?
Genuinely, I can imagine seeing that in a video from 20+ years ago, but only in the context of a TV sketch show or similar.
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Was watching Crewe v Lincoln via iFollow on Saturday, and showed my family the Crewe mascot standing there for the minute's silence, head bowed. They laughed. Then my daughter said, "Obviously there's someone like you working at the club who thought it would be a really funny idea to make the mascot go out there and stand with the team." Er no, I said - dozens of football clubs up and down the country will be doing exactly the same today, and have been doing it for years. The laughter quickly mutated into incredulity and questions about what the fuck is wrong with Britain right now. Not a question I'm equipped to answer.
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Originally posted by Sam View PostWho thought it was anything other than utterly ridiculous to dress someone up in a mascot-style poppy outfit and trot them onto the pitch for the minute's silence?
Genuinely, I can imagine seeing that in a video from 20+ years ago, but only in the context of a TV sketch show or similar.
What a fine concentrated exemplar of this thread's continuing raison d'être that video is, though. It's a crying shame that only one of the teams has brought their own mascot to the centre circle, it would be pure distilled magnificence/horror if there were two of them and the poppy.
Thanks to ursus for explaining the Stevenage pinstripes, meanwhile. Again, could no-one really see what it was going to look like?
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Christ, it’s even worse than I remember it looking from my angle in the stadium, is it from the TV footage?
It would be as funny as the rest of the thread if the guy in black holding a wreath wasn’t there to honour his dead son and having to put up with all that nonsense in front of him.
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In the spirit perhaps of this thread, if not exactly relevant, I've just stumbled across the below article posted today on the BBC website:
"Confessions of a football mascot – Fights, funerals and furry heads: Lifting the lid on the lives of English football's mascots"
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Would anyone like a copy of Mascots- Football's Furry Friends by Rick Minter? I've just discovered I have 2 copies. It has all the English league clubs c.2004, some Scottish, some non league and a feature on Yorkie the Lion from York. Lots of full colour photos throughout.
No charge. First come, first served.
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Slightly related. Bath City, for ridiculously obscure reasons, have got a pig mascot. Many of us wanted community ownership purely to get the pig changed to a Roman or something more relevant (and less pathetic looking). Now, I temporarily have the pig costume in my house. Do I don the costume to carry out a spate of crimes and misdemeanours to besmirch the pig's PR value and get it replaced?
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