On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Chicago Cubs, a team I've been following for 30 years, announced
> Monday that they were going to have a mascot for the first time: a large
> bear named Clark. Suffice to say, many Cubs fans over the age of eight
> looked at this as a sign of the apocalypse and immediately took to mocking
> him and the Cubs organization.
>

The Steelers introduced a similar mascot a few years ago, named Steely
McBeam, to a similar fan reaction. As it turns out, they only use the
mascot at children's' functions as part of community relations. They never
use him or even mention him on game days at Heinz Field.

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