That's A Mascot???? I Thought I Saw Him On To Catch a Predator.

Mrs. Jewbacca is a die-hard, Pittsburgh-born Steelers fan. She also was a child in the western end of the state during the "We Are Family" days of the Pirates. She also enjoys ripping apart Philadelphia sports traditions, like booing little kids playing hockey between periods of a Flyers game, eating scrapple, throwing battery-laden snowballs and generally choking. So we tend to argue quite a bit about the mascots that represent our respective baseball teams. She likes to pick on the Phillie Phanatic by asking "What is it, besides some leftover shag carpeting from the 70s" and I respond by making fun of the tough "parrot" mascot the Bucs employ.


It's easy to see the clear winner here, correct? I mean the Phanatic is, the Phanatic and that Parrot is, pretty bush-league if you ask me. Possibly an acceptable mascot for the Podunk Parrots of the Short-Season Rookie Community College Intramural League. It looks like a horrible genetic incident involving Jamie Farr, Big Bird and The Schmoo.

But until now, there has been no argument over our respective football teams' mascots. I pretend the Eagles don't have one and she held her head high over the fact that the Steelers didn't have one.

That is...until now:


All I can say is: game, set, match Jewbacca. Philly Mascots 2, Pittsburgh Mascots -infinity. Share your thoughts in the comment section. I think he looks like a laid-off steelworking peeping tom. He even comes in handy mug shot mode so that it is easier to identify him from the quick glance you catch of him as he tramples the bushes outside your kid's window making a quick getaway. I've seen this guy in my nightmares.