Mascot Performer, Star Tribune

[UPChip]

https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA...tunityId=a28b487c-1493-4354-97ad-f1243ce62ba7

Placed in the wrong board for comedy purposes.

They don't say what the costume is. I assume it's an anthropomorphic version of Sid's tape recorder.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I heard those things are hot as heck inside. Not a bad gig tho for a college kid looking for a side gig.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

What ... they couldn't get a preps stringer to do it instead of actually posting an ad?

 

[maumann]

$25 an hour? That's more than prep stringers get for a Friday night.

 

[micropolitan guy]

That's one scary-looking costume.

 

[playthrough]

Shoot, that's nice cash for a side gig. And your only real job is to not end up on the wrong side of a social media post.

 

[dixiehack]

There's a former ME of mine in Georgia who will be fuming he didn't think of this 25 years ago.

 

[Liut]

Did the mascot thing .... once.
@maumann Here we go again.
Was the lead p-by-p for a college baseball program. Big promotion with the local Coors distributorship. Someone was supposed to show up and wear a costume. Didn't show.
The GM is in a panic. So, I put the damn thing on and run around the infield pregame. Did manage to pilfer an ice-cold Coors Light at field level.
Changed back out and, though slightly winded, called the first pitch.
I'm telling ya @maumann, we could get rich selling our stories to a film studio.

 

[HanSenSE]

In July 1984, the Olympic torch relay was being run through the middle of the San Jose State campus. The university and the athletic department held a ceremony when it came through when someone realized all the cheerleaders were at a camp this week and we didn't have anyone who could wear the mascot costume. I was interviewing for jobs at the time and still hanging around the sports information office, so I got drafted at the price on one doughnut.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Did it for Kings Dominion in 1973-74, Hanna-Barbera characters. Yogi was the best, he had feet and fingers. I'd sign autographs, "Impeach Nixon, Yogi Bear."

 

[maumann]

Did the mascot thing .... once.
@maumann Here we go again.
Was the lead p-by-p for a college baseball program. Big promotion with the local Coors distributorship. Someone was supposed to show up and wear a costume. Didn't show.
The GM is in a panic. So, I put the damn thing on and run around the infield pregame. Did manage to pilfer an ice-cold Coors Light at field level.
Changed back out and, though slightly winded, called the first pitch.
I'm telling ya @maumann, we could get rich selling our stories to a film studio.

The problem is nobody would believe the stuff we've done, @Liut!

Don't know if I have shared this one with the forum ...

While working in radio in the Bay Area in the early 1980s, I wound up announcing stock car races for $30 every Saturday night at a quarter-mile dirt bullring called Antioch Speedway. It was a tough blue-collar place for both drivers and the crowd, so I stuck out like a sore thumb but I could get the crowd going. The PA system was so antiquated that once the cars hit the track, I realized the only thing anyone could hear would be the excitement in my voice. So I basically yelled all night.

It was the kind of place where either the police or deputies would have to break up a fight in the pits nearly every other week, and everybody there was kin to somebody else. So not only would you have drivers involved, but wives and girlfriends and mommas and grandmas throwing down, babies in tow. Was never certain my car would still be in the lot when I finally packed up.

Well, the "press box" was an open air wooden structure at the top of the grandstands mainly used by the offical scorers, the guy who ran the scoreboard and me, with a split door that we could open to get some breeze on hot nights. I don't remember exactly what touched it off but I'm calling the feature main one night when suddenly there's a huge drunk off his ass, bearded biker-looking dude with a large knife in his hand, yelling something incoherently over the engine noise and leaning into our space.

While the lady next to me doing the scoring cowered under the counter, I reached over, grabbed the top of the split door and slammed it in the guy's face. The drunk lost his balance and rolled down the stairs, all the way to the feet of the deputy who was on his way to assist.

I don't think I even missed a lap during the whole thing.

All in a night's work!

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Did the mascot thing .... once.
@maumann Here we go again.
Was the lead p-by-p for a college baseball program. Big promotion with the local Coors distributorship. Someone was supposed to show up and wear a costume. Didn't show.
The GM is in a panic. So, I put the damn thing on and run around the infield pregame. Did manage to pilfer an ice-cold Coors Light at field level.
Changed back out and, though slightly winded, called the first pitch.
I'm telling ya @maumann, we could get rich selling our stories to a film studio.

As fiction, probably. No way would they believe any of it ever happened.

In July 1984, the Olympic torch relay was being run through the middle of the San Jose State campus. The university and the athletic department held a ceremony when it came through when someone realized all the cheerleaders were at a camp this week and we didn't have anyone who could wear the mascot costume. I was interviewing for jobs at the time and still hanging around the sports information office, so I got drafted at the price on one doughnut.

How many times do I have to tell people that exposure doesn't pay the bills?!? Always hold out for cash!