WBRS Sports Blog

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Keep your back-up quarterbacks away from this guy

In last night's pre-season game between the Saints and the Titans, Titans mascot T-Rac (who looks like a pimp of a racoon) hit Saints back-up quarterback Adrian McPherson with a golf cart.

From the Tenessean:
"The mascot's vehicle hit McPherson, who stayed on the field for a few minutes being checked out by a trainer on the sideline. He then walked off the field.

'He got run over by a mascot,'' Saints Coach Sean Payton said of the 6-foot-3, 218-pound McPherson, who is the No. 3 quarterback. "We got to play the Titans and you have to worry about the mascots and all the other stuff going on. He's got a bruise, some kind of contusion.

'When you play a game, your competition is the opponent. When we start having mascots driving around at halftime and all that other stuff, then those are things that are bothersome."

T-Rac declined to comment.

Saints wide receiver Joe Horn's take on the mascot mugging: 'If that had been me, I would still be lying there. I would have owned a percentage of that field.'"

A few comments:

Unlike Joe Horn, I would've gotten up and put the beat down on that f***ing racoon.
I can't imagine Sean Payton saying that quote without breaking up or at least cracking a smile.
T-Rac declines comment? Really? What other time in a mascot's life do they get to talk trash? "That's right McPherson! I'm furry and goofy looking and I still put your ass on the floor!"

// posted by MC @ 1:47 PM

5 Comments:

At 8/13/2006 8:23 PM , twins15 said...: "When we start having mascots driving around at halftime and all that other stuff, then those are things that are bothersome."

LOL! :D
At 8/14/2006 1:15 AM , Anonymous said...: that is funny shit.
At 8/14/2006 1:11 PM , Kevin said...: this might be acecptable if the Titans mascot was a Greek statuesque brute looking thing.

I once got hit with a power wheels while playing t-ball. that sucked.
At 8/14/2006 1:36 PM , Landis Floyd said...: This was all my fault....I framed the mascot.
At 8/14/2006 7:42 PM , Connie16 said...: I wonder if other players in the clubhouse will make fun of him. At least the mascot was somewhat masculine. It could have been a mermaid or a turtle.