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Mascot's handler knows his job.

What other race is a mascot? This one.

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Oh, and apparently this one, too.

Not sure quite exactly what you're referring to.

If you're talking about the fact that there's entertainment (i.e. the kiss-cam in question) it's because unlike most non-american sports, we have breaks in ours. Baseball has innings, so during the change between players at bat / players on the field, they'll go to a commercial break on t.v., but if you're actually in the park they typically try to bring out a "Quick Cleaning" crew to watch, or the mascot will dance or something

Same thing for football, except footballs entertainment is basically cheerleaders and the half time show.

Hockey, however, has 3 periods, at the end of each they bring out the Zamboni to clean the ice, making entertainment on the ice itself impossible, so they do things with the jumbo-cam, like the kiss-cam, to keep people entertained until the next period starts.

My high school mascot growing up was the "Grand River Renegade"

Effectively native chief. When I was in my third year of high school, there was talk about changing it to something else because it was deemed offensive.

I honestly, to this day, can't understand why that was offensive. The reason we had a native renegade as our mascot? Because it was freaking badass! It wasn't mocking the first nationers in any way, shape, or form. If anything, in my mind, it was actually a way of showing support, going "Dude, your ancestors were awesome enough that we're making it our mascot."

Now, the term redskin, yeah, I can see that as offensive, it does seem to fall under the racial slur side of things. But just because that's what the mascot of the team is, it doesn't specifically mean anything disrespectful to whatever it's representing (although again, granted, the name may need a change.)

It is true that native Americans are as diverse as white Americans in their opinions. There are many many reservations here in the Pacific Northwest. One of the reasons it took so long to finally abandon "Redskins" in our high school is that there were local tribe members who didn't have a problem with it.

If the native tribes weren't monolithic in their response, why should the white people abandon their "heritage"?

I do wonder if we can hear the final sentence of this differently. It may be that some natives are fine with their local high school mascot, for the same reason our local high was -- it is tradition.

But what the vid says is -- we don't call OURSELVES that. And that may be a monolithic truth.

Probably not, though. Humans can be pesky to paint as black or white ... or red.

Enough native Americans are pissed about it. We don't need 100% agreement.

Nicely done. I spent a year putting together a video for my wife's 40th birthday -- also our 20th anniversary. During our tourist season of the previous year, I approached visitors from all over the world and got them to wish her a Happy Birthday in their native language. I also had a lot of local mascots pitch in too.
That was combined with family video which included our sons as toddlers and pics that I got from her mother's old photo albums, all of it combined with a hand picked soundtrack.
I played it at a surprise party I arranged. She cried, her mom cried, I cried...
Those moments are priceless...

This kid was great as the Brylcreem mascot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwg1dQD_he4
..glad he's found a new gig.

It's never too late to make a gangnam style video! Loved the mascots or whatever those guys were.

It has to do with how the high school got it's mascot. The movie takes a number of wild turns. Just enjoy the ride! Oh, and you may have to watch it more than once. >> ^Sagemind:

What's with the Alien spaceship at 1:58

I love sports mascots..the chicken wins. Berlino was an awesome one. Check him out if you get a chance.

I'd say the mascot was capable of "breaking" as well, but the head part of the costume would have got in the way.

>> ^budzos:

No, I'm not afraid I'm going to lose control and shove someone unnecessarily. I haven't "assaulted" anyone since I was twelve.
What I'm afraid of is being in the proximity of people who would "absolutely file assault charges" for something where nobody was really hurt and the guy has already paid the price of looking like a complete asshole in front of the whole world. You would "absoultely" press the issue and try to sic the government on him. Why? Justice? Get fucked.
>> ^Porksandwich:
>> ^budzos:
People like you make me afraid to go out into the world.
>> ^Porksandwich:
Plus, Im guessing his shirt, shorts, shoes, and possibly his underwear. And anything else he dons on his way to the run and after the run will have a big corporate logo on it. So...... yeah. Hopefully some assault charges are in his future to go along with all that ill will he's generated. I don't see how the time frame that happened in could be a misunderstanding, and if he can't deal with the situation of corporate sponsorship of the events....he should stop going.


Is the fear of being sued for shoving people or the choice of not attending things where you may be offended/irritated/whatever and not being able to shove someone?
Hell you can't even put your hands on someone like that when they are on your own property for something as simple as wearing a mascot outfit and trying to hand you something...well NORMAL people can't get away with it at least.
I'd absolutely file assault charges against him if he put his hands on me or my kid (if I had kids) like that. He wouldn't put up with me going out and shoving his teenage kids....double standards are fun.



So he looked like an asshole in front of the world, he chose to do what he did. Him looking like an asshole doesn't negate the fact that he shoved someone, specifically a kid for approaching him and trying to hand him something who wouldn't have been on the track if they didn't have permission from the event.

He doesn't suddenly become a victim because now he looks like an asshole in front of the whole world, the victim is still the person in the mascot outfit being shoved...on camera in front of the same audience.

I think you'd feel differently if he were shoving you on camera and not just shrugging your shoulders and thinking aww shucks the poor runner man looks like an asshole. You have the expectation to not be assaulted by little known people AND well known people. Entitled to your own opinion, even if it does let grown men shove kids around. All intentional, nothing accidental happening in that video.

i think whats really fucking stupid is youre seriously defending a man who shoved a child. doesnt matter that it was a "corporate mascot". get fucked indeed

FUCKIN' AYE!

He still shouldn't have pushed the mascot tho. But I agree with everything else.

>> ^budzos:

This is like the video of the tennis guys having to watch some corporate idiot talk for ten minutes before they could sit down after playing four or five sets. The guy has just run 3000M as fast as he can.... the race hasn't been over for TEN SECONDS you can't let him catch his breath, maybe experience the moment and store a memory? Maybe let things proceed with some dignity? No, you have to get your branding on screen at his expense immediately. Fuck that mascot, fuck her gift basket, fuck her employers and fuck the corporate PR/marketing whores who shove "branding" and "identity" down our throats incessantly. Fuck!