Grizzlies' Parker has a death wish
Submitted by wiffle on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 18:18.
Is this just a simple mascot stunt for opening night of the Fresno Grizzlies season, or is it a cry for help from a suicidal bear?
You decide as you watch Fresno Grizzlies mascot, Parker, come in for a landing after jumping out of an airplane above Downtown Fresno.
Parker video
*Alternative headlines for this post:
-HIGHWAY TO PARKER'S DANGER ZONE
-MASCOT HAS BALLS
actually...
tandem jumping, (or piggyback) jumping is somewhat common in a lot of corporate 'confidence,' building type classes / events.
(Dunno out here, but it was pretty ho-hum stuff back east... seems like every other CEO or whatever,
who's office you'd wander into,
would show them strapped to some instructor,
cheeks all around they ears,
teeth hanging out like beavers,
and this look of complete:
'...unh gaaahd,,, I just pee'd my pants, now take that picture fer godssake...' kind of look.
(The drool soaring upward was usually photoshopped out.)
(Which, usually? wasn't too flattering compared to the tailored look that they had standing in front of you...'
You were supposed to say:
-wow!, whozzat?
--oh that, it was just me, a little thing I did, it was no big deal.
-wow!, I could never do that, but it looks like fun...
--oh, it's a rush,,,, so anyway, about these documents...
(you were never supposed to say:
-hey, you're the twentieth suit I've seen falling from a low height with Bob from 'the Ranch,' skydivers, though, it does great things for that double chin...)
It was usually over by a picture of a sailboat, and maybe a baseball signed by 'Igualdo Minorski,' (covered with pine-tar, shoe polish, or cow dung...)
I remember this one V.Prez, had some RadioHead CD's next to his in office soundsystem...
'...hey, did you know that they're playing next weekend over at the garden...'
'...who?'
'..um, Radiohead...'
'...who's radiohead???'
...Kind of makes you long for the days when everybody would tell their greatest fear, and then fall off a low stage blindfolded into the awaiting arms of a team (that knew that their arse's were fired if they let the silly git drop...)
A faux Parker?
I was at the Opening Night game and saw the parachute stunt. I don't think that was Parker strapped to the other 'chutist. When the pair landed, "Parker" unstrapped and galloped for the gate in center field. Moments later "Parker" emerged on his little ATV, as he always does at the start of a game, and whipped around the field.
Can you imagine what the Grizzlies' insurance company would have said: "You're gonna have your mascot do WHAT?"
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