From time to time, sports mascots will “fight.” It’s usually in the form of the Phillie Phanatic taking big, Curly-from-The-Three-Stooges wind-ups and knocking out a Mr. Met lookalike or whoever, and it’s all in good fun. When one of the mascots shows up to the comedy fight trying to dropkick the other, it becomes a for-real living Muppet shootfight.
Yet that’s precisely what rabid prep basketball fans in Kentucky received on Tuesday night, when Louisville’s crosstown rivalry between Louisville (Kent.) Male High and Louisville (Kent.) DuPont Manual High devolved into a massive brouhaha between the two teams’ mascots. (via Prep Rally)
As you can see from the video after the jump (forgive the vertical video syndrome and the guy getting so into the fight that he just films the armpits of the people around him), the ram mascot figures out the combination to the bulldog’s throwdown vault, and the two pretty much hockey fight. You can only hurt the other guy so much when you’re haymakering a big foam head, but they’re really going at it.
Check it out:
Here’s a full transcript of the video:
WOOOO. WOOOO. OOOOOOOOOOOOOH. LILGUYTRYMDROPKICKEM. OOOOOH! OOOOOOH! OOOOOH! OOOOOH! OOOOOH! OOOOOOOOOOH!
Advice for that ram mascot? Don’t go full Kofi Kingston. You never go full Kofi Kingston.
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Classic mascot fight. RI Ram v. St. Joe’s Hawk.
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/miss you Keany Gym
//fuck you Jim Harrick
But the how was the Hawk gonna change his tire if the Ram stole his spare?
good point.
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thanks B
Mid-transformation Ophidian has really let himself go.
GUYS GUYS GUYS! *Catches breath* I ran over here as soon as I heard “mascot fight”.
I WAS NOT DISAPPOINT!
Yayyyy my hometown made it on With Leather. The gym this took place in is 5 miles from my house. Pretty heated rivalry amongst two high-schools that are pretty different culturally.
Kids these days. They never go for the body shot. Hitting the body is always the sure thing to do some damage.
I graduated from Male High School nearly 13 long years ago. Nothing this cool ever happened at any of the basketball games I went to.