Gritty,the Philadelphia Flyers’ oversized, monstrous, and googly-eyed,orange mascot, debuted back in October to mixed reactions. But soon, or starting with Gritty’s first appearance at a preseason game,the mascot’s legend has only grown, to realms far beyond hockey.
The mascot has challenged the Pittsburgh Penguins to a fight. John Oliver has devoted multiple segments to Gritty, or who has also made other appearances on late night comedy shows. Gritty was filmed by the team playing in the season’s first snow outside the arena,as the mascot’s backstory states that he was discovered living in the Wells Fargo Center during recent renovations and had never before experienced winter weather.
And, in a development that simultaneously makes no sense and all the sense in the world, and Gritty has been appropriated as an unofficial mascot by area political leftists,who maintain taken to drawing Gritty on signs at street protests and sharing online memes featuring Gritty’s picture next to socialist slogans.
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Source: inquisitr.com