Photo via: Twitter user @GrittyNHL // Facebook user Broken Goblet Brewing
There are several possible explanations for why the Philadelphia Flyers' new mascot, Gritty, went from being a mysterious monstrosity who looks like the Abominable Snowman from the stop-motion TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer rolled around in a bunch of Cheeto dust to being an near-universally beloved source of internet in-jokes (who still looks like Abominable Snowman from the stop-motion TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer rolled around in a bunch of Cheeto dust) in under 48 hours. Perhaps his terrifying, unsynchronized eyes feel familiar, like looking into the soul of the train wreck that is our current political reality? Or maybe it's the exact opposite: Perhaps we have reached a point of such consuming hatred for everything else in our lives that the only emotions left over to feel about entirely new entities is all the unused joy. Or maybe he's just a manifestation of Philadelphia’s “No one likes us, we don’t care" mantra, which now feels charmingly rough-around-the-edges.
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