From a mackerel that eats people to a giant chicken that injured a cheerleader, plus a
bit of kidnapping – here are ten times team mascots took it way too far!
10: Mackerel Jordan Mackerel Jordan is one of the most poorly
behaved mascots in the world.
He's the mascot for the Islanders and a bit of a psycho.
This fishy mascot literally eats anyone who gets in his way.
He is notorious for not caring about who he eats or where he eats them!
He's eaten random fans, he's eaten players, he's allegedly gobbled down cheerleaders,
and he's even gone on ESPN and eaten sportscasters on live television.
He loves being the center of attention and during a game, he wanted a worker to throw
a ball.
He did for a little bit, you know like when you play catch with your dog?
But then the guy FAKED throwing a ball- super mean right??
When Mackerel Jordan realized it, he ATE HIM!!
Headlines everywhere said Fish Mascot Eats Worker!!
Of course, Mackerel Jordan always regurgitates whoever he eats – and he hasn't actually
gotten into any real trouble like some other mascots have.
Still, seeing Mackerel Jordan actually swallow fully grown humans into his mascot mouth is
pretty impressive.
That must be one strong inflatable suit he has on.
9: The Oregon Duck The Oregon Duck is considered a pretty rude
mascot.
In fact, the Oregon Duck mascot is so rude that according to CBS News, he was suspended
for a game when he got into a violent altercation with the Houston Cougar.
The Duck became irate after the Cougar imitated one of his trademark moves.
The Cougar copied the Duck’s famous push-ups for total points after every touchdown.
The Duck did not appreciate the plagiarism and went after the Cougar, pushed him violently
to the ground, got on top of him, and then began wailing on his head with his fists.
While everyone in the audience assumed the fight was staged, it turned out that it was
100% real.
The Duck was very truly trying to beat up whoever was inside the Cougar suit.
The mascot got suspended, with the Oregon athletic director Pat Kilkenny saying that
representatives needed to be held to higher standards.
He's referring to the fact that the Duck mascot is a role played by several different students,
not all of whom can apparently control themselves when it comes to violent outbursts.
8: Gritty The Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot Gritty was
recently in some trouble with the law.
It all happened on December 21 when Chris Greenwell filed a police report.
What was the subject of the report?
He claimed that his son Brandon, only 13 years old at the time, gave Gritty a playful pat
on the head after a photo that was taken during a meet and greet.
The mascot then turned and punched the 13-year-old kid in the face as hard as was physically
possible.
The interaction supposedly left Greenwell’s son with a giant black bruise from where the
mascot, who was presumably a grown man inside a costume, punched him with a closed fist.
Unfortunately for anyone who was hoping for justice, nothing ever came from the allegations.
In the end, that's all they turned out to be.
The Philadelphia Police Department recently announced that the matter was closed and that
the Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot did not physically assault the child as was alleged.
Basically, he was cleared of any wrongdoing.
But to be honest, it's impossible to say what really did happen during the game.
Is the assault being covered up?
And if not, why would a father lie about his child getting beat up by a sports team’s
mascot?
It wouldn't make any sense.
But in the end, Greenwell never got so much as an apology from the team, and Gritty is
still running around free.
7: Sebastian the Ibis Sebastian the Ibis, the team mascot for the
Miami Hurricanes, was played by a student named John Routh.
Every Sunday John would have friends over at his place.
They’d sit by the pool and hang out and do college stuff.
The year was 1989 and there was a rivalry game coming up with the Hurricanes facing
the Seminoles.
John knew that as the team mascot, he needed to do something big.
He and his friends sat around the pool trying to come up with ideas.
They eventually settled on the idea of putting out the flaming spear of Florida State’s
mascot!
Florida’s mascot always came onto the field riding a horse and carrying a flaming spear.
It was a whole thing.
So, John got everything ready.
He got ahold of a fireman's jacket and a hat and brought a fire extinguisher from his own
house.
He was standing in the tunnel next to the coach, dressed fully in his costume for Sebastian
the Ibis, holding on to his fire extinguisher.
But he never made it onto the field.
He took two steps and was seized by the police.
Apparently, the Tallahassee officers were not interested in pranks.
In the struggle to take the fire extinguisher from him, the cops ended up getting sprayed
with it.
According to the story from ESPN, a group of officers then basically beat the snot out
of this guy in his giant bird costume.
They threw him against the fence, John felt elbow smashing into the back of his skull,
the officers were trying to rip his suit off, which basically strangled him because of the
chinstrap that kept his head attached to the costume.
It wasn’t until the Miami fans, as well as some members of the team, saw what was
going on that the police stopped beating him up – though they didn’t let him anywhere
near the field for the whole game.
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6: Burnie the Miami Heat During a 1994 exhibition game in Puerto Rico,
the Miami Heat mascot Burnie did something he really shouldn't have.
What Burnie the mascot did was so bad that the Miami Heat were ordered by a federal jury
to pay a woman $50,000.
The woman's name was Yvonne Gil-Rebollo, and she claimed that she was humiliated and injured
by the mascot during the basketball game and tried to sue the team for a million dollars!
She claimed that she was deprived of her dignity and that even after the $50,000, she was in
no way compensated for the damage done to her.
So, what happened to this poor woman?
It was actually pretty over the top.
Burnie the mascot dragged her out of the stands and into the court 100% against her will.
The issue here is that they weren't at a hometown game.
They were in Puerto Rico – and the woman he grabbed against her will was the wife of
a Supreme Court judge and the sister of Puerto Rico’s U.S. attorney!
Basically, it was a huge debacle.
He picked the absolute worst person to humiliate and ended up paying the price.
5: San Diego Chicken The San Diego Chicken is yet another mascot
who injured a lady and had to pay the price.
But instead of $50,000, a jury in Chicago ordered the man inside the San Diego Chicken
suit to pay over $300,000 to a cheerleader who he tackled during a sports game.
The guy in the suit was named Ted Giannoulas, and he traveled around the country in his
chicken costume having a good time and getting the crowds going.
At least, he had a good time until the match in 1991 when he tackled cheerleader Kimberly
Smith.
He tackled the girl so hard that she suffered a jar injury and was forced to retire from
cheerleading for life.
As it turns out, the mascot and cheerleading games are a lot more dangerous than anyone
could have guessed.
4: Reedy Rip’It Reedy Rip’It is a giant frog.
In 2006, he was the mascot for a minor league baseball team, the Greenville Drive of the
Class A South Atlantic League.
Unfortunately for everyone, Reedy Rip’It was also a seriously bad frog.
More accurately, the man inside the suit was a very bad frog.
He was arrested after allegedly fondling a woman at a game!
She claimed that the giant frog grabbed her by the chest in a stairwell as she and her
friend were trying to leave their seats.
The woman was furious and reported the bad behavior to the team the next day, and shortly
after, the man in the suit was arrested.
According to CBS News, Cecil McLaurin Amick III was suspended after the incident.
But to be quite honest, what was this guy doing as the team mascot in the first place?
He was 37 years old!
You would think a man almost in his 40s would have better things to do than put on a suit
and grope young women.
3: Rufus the Bobcat Rufus the Bobcat is one mean mascot.
He was recently caught beating up the Ohio State mascot Brutus.
But Rufus, the mascot for Ohio University, didn't fight fair.
Instead, he ambushed the unaware mascot and assaulted him pretty hard in what has been
described as a “pre-planned beatdown.”
The plan actually started a year before the attack when Brandon Hanning, only 19 years
old, tried out for the position of the mascot with the intention of tackling and beating
up Brutus.
Brandon then went through a whole year playing the mascot and waiting for his chance.
But he ended up getting in so much trouble that it may not have been worth it.
After he beat up Brutus, Brandon was told by Ohio to never attend another one of their
athletic events!
So, even though Brandon could remain a fan, he definitely couldn't play the role of mascot
anymore and he could never show his face at any of their matches.
But honestly, what’s really impressive is that he dedicated a year of his life as a
mascot just for the chance to tackle Brutus!
2: Air Force Falcon Believe it or not, the Air Force has a mascot.
The mascot is a white gyrfalcon named Aurora, and she was just 22 years old when she was
kidnapped in a prank gone wrong by West Point cadets before a college football game.
The huge white bird was literally stolen from a colonel's house just before a match between
the Air Force and the Army.
The West Point cadets wanted a bit more of an advantage by getting rid of the opposing
team’s mascot, which could undoubtedly boost morale.
But during the bold theft of the bird, Aurora was injured!
And according to the Guardian, it was a concern at the time that the bird may have needed
to be put down because of her advanced age.
But Luckily, it was later confirmed that Aurora could still fly and would probably make a
full recovery.
As for how the bird was stolen in the first place, West Point cadets had apparently stuffed
her into a dog crate, which is how her wings got injured.
They realized the prank was going wrong when the bird started smashing itself against the
cage, prompting them to give her back.
1: Avoid the Noid The Noid is not a team mascot.
Instead, he is the mascot for Domino’s Pizza.
But he has one of the darkest pasts of any mascot ever.
He is a human-like character with massive buckteeth, a red bunny suit, and an annoying
habit for disrupting pizza delivery.
He was used by Domino's between 1986 and 1995, back when they were doing 30 minutes or less.
The whole point of the Noid as a mascot was to promote quick and efficient delivery from
the company.
All these years later in 2021, Domino’s has brought the Noid back.
Nostalgia seems to be the biggest motivation behind the mascot's return.
But what happened to the Noid back in the 90s?
Well, in 1989 a man from Georgia named Kenneth Noid took two employees from Domino’s hostage
at a restaurant in the Atlanta area because he was under the assumption that Domino’s
had created the Noid character to mock him specifically.
This guy was obviously off his rocker.
He was charged with kidnapping and assault, but later found not guilty because the court
claimed he was insane.
Kenneth Noid was then institutionalized – and after this whole fiasco, the Noid just kind
of vanished.
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