If you aren’t already privy to his legend, meet the Blackburn Chicken. He’s a living, actual chicken that gets released onto the field whenever Blackburn Rovers fans want to protest something like, for example, the poultry company that owns the team.

I don’t know why he’s been unleashed here (and it’s probably not the same chicken), but I enjoy the call and response that happens when he appears. The Blackburn Chicken remains relatively still as a security guard creeps up on him … everyone in the stands goes WHOOOOOOOAAAAAH in anticipation, and when the guard makes his move the chicken FLEES and everybody goes YEAHHHHHH and the game continues. I hope the chicken was released in protest of the lazy-ass security guards Blackburn has. Those guys are not giving it their all.

This should be the team’s next security training video:

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Americans like their cheerleaders to be attractive, athletic girls who perform sexy gryrations on the sidelines.  And England is almost exactly the same in that they kept the "gyrations" and "sidelines" part of that equation.  I know this isn't the best quality video, but to me that looks like a feller dancing for Blackburn Rovers of the Premiership. 

Oh man, I hate it when my Friday starts off this sexy.  It's so hard to concentrate.  Watch out, Shakira!  There's a new set of hips that don't lie!

(Thanks to veterinarian/war veteran Robert for the vid.)