Misadventures In Weekend Skydiving
RealClearSports - Blog —
... and the mascot landed feet-first, fell to his back and jumped up.
It is moments like this for which YouTube was created. Videos of both incidents after the jump.
If you ever parachute into the wrong football stadium: run.
Parachuting in a full mascot costume. What could possibly go wrong?
(H/T: 850 the Buzz and The Sporting News)
It might be time to sell your shares in pregame parachuting
Dr. Saturday —
... Saturday -- at least he executed the landing, nobody got hurt, and the several dozen diehards, ironic teenage hipsters and masochists at the Duke-James Madison game had a pleasant surprise (we hear the security guards loved it). Better to land successfully on the wrong field than botch the landing altogether, as a certain Nippert Stadium jumper did before Cincinnati's scrimmage with Eastern Kentucky last Thursday, further proof that nobody cares about other people jumping out of airplanes until something goes terribly wrong: ...
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EDSBS —
Blogtoberfest: defending you from tigers like big strong Russian should.
The use of parachutes to put mascots and/or gameballs into stadiums has now gone too far. (Via The Sporting Blog. )
The reason it has gone too far should be obvious: a mascot will get tangled in some lines, then they’ll fall, then they’ll catch on fire, then they’ll get attacked by the live mascot, and it will all end badly. And our first reaction will be to laugh, thus punching another ...
