Gritty mania: How a new mascot won the Internet - and his city's support
After 42 years without a mascot, the Philadelphia Flyers debuted Gritty in 2018. The team had no idea what would happen next. Subscribe to The Washington Post on KZread: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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Gritty looks like he would beat a Salvation Army Santa with a car battery in a Wawa parking lot and I love him for it.
@Alex-jg2bc
5 жыл бұрын
MH from NH that is the best description of Gritty I have ever heard.
@mila6568
5 жыл бұрын
And he would walk away, badass stuffing his face with Wawa pretzels.
@maskedmarvel
5 жыл бұрын
Best description
@amadislugo5334
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah. After he'd lie drunk on a sidewalk in front of a tattoo parlor with a 40 in a paper bag in hand.
@bman041
5 жыл бұрын
I’m having a tough time envisioning someone being beaten with a car battery, but a D-cell in a sock, oh yeah, for sure.
When Gritty was introduced: Philly: WTF is this? Everyone else: WTF is this? Philly: SHUT UP! HE'S A NATIONAL TREASURE! God, I love Philly! XD
@LemSat87
4 жыл бұрын
'Sleep with one eye open tonight, bird' that sold me, I LOVED Gritty after this.
@Chrisstrohm14
2 жыл бұрын
@@LemSat87 that got me right behind its Philly vs everyone
@joeheid4757
2 жыл бұрын
@@LemSat87 That "Bird" would beat the crap out of Gritty.
@LemSat87
2 жыл бұрын
@@joeheid4757 lets petition the NHL to have these two do a no holds barred slugfest during an intermission of one of the next meetings and have bets placed :D
@joeheid4757
2 жыл бұрын
@@LemSat87 Watch Sudden Death. It's a horrible movie. Maybe Jean Claude Van Damme's worst. But in it there's a fight scene between Iceburgh and JCVD. Iceburgh near beat the toughest SOB on the planet. Gritty would be Child's Play.
"I've been in the business of professional idiocy for 40 years." There are few people that can lay claim to that.
@Mr.Pants45
5 жыл бұрын
Um, every politician that has been around for 40 years?
@CreightonRabs
5 жыл бұрын
Professional idiocy is what both WaPo and the Flyers are experts in.
@logosofgame4273
5 жыл бұрын
Really? I was thinking anyone over the age of 40 could lay claim to that mantle!
@jash6105
5 жыл бұрын
Donald trump
@Jay9999
5 жыл бұрын
Lol and he really made it work for him
"Sleep with one eye open, bird." I think that as soon as this happened, every sports fan accepted him.
Gritty forever! Thanks for using my face/cosplay as the opener for this video LOL.
@VorAbaddon
5 жыл бұрын
I literally first discovered your channel because someone dropped your NightmareFuel emote in... I think it was Goobs channel, and I was like "I HAVE TO HAVE THIS!" So glad I found my way there
@CinephileSanityTV
5 жыл бұрын
Can i get a Gritty lap dance????? 👍
@whosregis2000
5 жыл бұрын
@@CinephileSanityTV dude be careful, what if gritty shows up and likes it?
@kevhollywoodgamer7634
5 жыл бұрын
ur so hot
@yungdash4852
5 жыл бұрын
marry me
Philly's motto......you don't say s**t about our guys, only we can say s**t about our guys. Once someone on the outside said something about Gritty, the whole city rallied around him
@chrisdurso3325
5 жыл бұрын
That and the Flyers sucked this year. Gritty was the only positive thing this year
@johngraham5693
4 жыл бұрын
Being from philly that is true we are one in that way we can bash on our city as much as we want someone from outside the city does the same thing and that’s down right rude plus it gives us something to do
I thought gritty was the dumbest thing ever when I first saw his photos. But then when I saw his act, I saw the whole thing come together and thought it was genius. Dude needs his own cartoon
I'm not even a Philies fan! I'm a Toronto fan but Gritty is by far one of the best mascots I've seen! the look, the persona is perfect!
Looks like a sesame street character on mushrooms.
@AQUAPHREESH193
5 жыл бұрын
HAHHAHA
@MichaelJW72
5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking Animal from the Muppet Show after chugging a 12 pack of Red Bull. Orange edition of course.
@ladymaiden2308
4 жыл бұрын
Sesame Street character on acid, or maybe I'm the one who took the acid. Before I realized it was double-dipped.
I always loved the blue-collar identity of a place like Philly - the guy at 4:05 said it best: "You're not comin' after our boy like that." I love Philly because the place has an IDENTITY that is so distinctly theirs.
@thomasc.5219
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah thugs and idiots. Only Boston can challenge you guys for those titles.
Gritty is the offspring of a yeti and an orange snow cone.
His Twitter game won me over
@ItMeT0ken
5 жыл бұрын
Same
I am a bruins fan and I love this mascot. Hilarious.
@Vilgotczky
5 жыл бұрын
Ryan Ford Same
@SatansPooper
5 жыл бұрын
i second this
@andyasbury
5 жыл бұрын
Yep. Same here. How much fun would it be to see Blades Vs. Gritty for some sort of charity event? :)
@LarryKoopa64
5 жыл бұрын
Ryan Ford I’m a penguins fan!
@stevenconnors5799
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’m a penguins fan and I LOVE gritty
Gritty had the greatest welcome to philly since Santa
I managed to fall in love with Gritty in less than 30 seconds.
Lol the kids voicecrack at the end was so damn funny!
Gritty is so horrifying and stupid that he circles around to become endearing.
Gritty won me over the minute he ventured to overwatch league he proved to me that he is a legend in the making
Being from Columbus, I love Stinger, but Gritty is no doubt the best mascot in the NHL.
Fucked around and found out. Gritty 2020
Gritty wants Trump to know it was him and his people.
When I first saw the mascot I was like wtf, but now I love it. They're right, I loved the tweeting between gritty and Pittsburgh.
@tamaracesar1931
5 жыл бұрын
TheLittlebrokenheart it’s just like the girl said. I thought it was horrifying until people from other cities started making fun of it, and that’s why I embraced it 😂
I'm a huge Penguins fan but Gritty is awesome and hilarious!
Caps fan, but in love with Gritty
@MistressGlowWorm
5 жыл бұрын
RahBean Bean Kings Fan here, but Gritty is growing on me. I like what he stands for.
Talk about a home run by the flyers!
Like the flyers were laughed so was gritty but then Philadelphia defended him as our own
National Meme Champion
We are all just waiting for the rangers to get a mascot
Gritty was an Original Bully..... Dave Shultz
Gritty needs to get into a fight with Iceburgh.
Looks like the unholy love child of Yukon Cornelius and the Bumbles.
@lycaon7871
5 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment, this deserves more likes
I like gritty, He's not some silly animal. He's a silly bastard.
As a ranger fan gritty is the best mascot in hockey
0:00 damn, can that girl be the new mascot?
Go Gritty! Lets go Flyers!!
As a Bruins fan, we love Gritty. The guy fights for his team and that's what this game is about.
I dressed as Gritty for Halloween, and I am a Bolts fan! I love Gritty!
Here because of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and his piece on Brett Kavanaugh. Best Gritty commentary ever first 3 minutes of video if you missed it. Free on KZread.
Gritty go on chapo
Gritty is SO CUTE!
I'm from new York 😁 and I love gritty I took to him when he first came out that's my gritty
Kids love him. Dont change, gritty!
I love Gritty 🥰🧡
0:00 i lost... thats my kind of mascot
I love Gritty
That’s Philadelphia for you, when somebody attacks one of our own, we step in and fight for them.
gritty is a worker
Hey, hey, hey! Gritty errrrryday!
Gritty is to mascots as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are to pro cheerleaders.
We agonized on what to come up with, and settled on a Muppet version of Jacub Voracek
Tommy Hawk actually fights fans in Chicago, so Gritty has a little more work to do before he's the ultimate mascot, but he's well on his way.
whos the performer?
There's some sort of weird Mandela effect going on with gritty. I feel like I've seen him well before 2018.
Gritty really really reminds me of cookie monster with those googly eyes that moves and bounces around 😊
Gritty looks a lot like the Honey Monster from Sugar Puffs
Canucks fan here. Love Gritty
@coIakat
3 ай бұрын
Same here!
Pretty Gritty
Stars fans can kind of relate
@se03kazana
5 жыл бұрын
As a Stars fan, I agree
Noted anarchist thinker, Gritty
You know your season and organization is in the shiter when your mascot is the highlight
It's been said Philadelphia fan's would boo the Easter bunny
@johngraham5693
4 жыл бұрын
Mike Davis Easter bunny Santa clause the pope our mascots we get bored to quickly
Owl league is where I found em
There is no way to Gritty. Gritty is the way.
And now Gritty has been beaten up by the Miz
The NHL ows the Flyers big time.
I just wanna know more about that one stacked hot fan lol.
Whats not to like about Gritty? He came out of his cave and loves America!
I hate the flyers but we love gritty
“ professional idiocy”
I blame the san diego chicken for starting all of this bs
I was at work on break when it all went down. Totally aghast at this abomination. disbelief and disgust. WTF was this sh$t? Tool. Only when that weird Penguin mascot made fun of him did the dream became real. Don't touch our Mascot!! 😂 🧡🖤
The antihero of working people everywhere!
I've never wanted to have sex with something more in my life
By rigid, does he mean classless
Philadelphia makes you believe a liitle more then usually
Well Philly now has the best mascot in the league, too bad the team still sucks right now lol
@zmhmusic
5 жыл бұрын
Chad B big fax
@matthewoconnor5975
5 жыл бұрын
Aren't they on an 8 game winning streak right now? The problem is their inconsistency, not exactly their ability to play.
@oyeahjustcomenting
5 жыл бұрын
GTFO NJ 😈 pulls of looking Italian like alot of NJ and perfect with kids and when playoffs came around he rallied so hard
@dtoxnotbotox
5 жыл бұрын
9-1-1 in the last 11 games. Stolie and Hart with a combined 9.40 save percentage...
@chad_b
5 жыл бұрын
@@dtoxnotbotox yeah, remember their win streak last year? How'd that turn out? Lol
He Looks like bobby clarke
Prison orange.....fitting
They decided not to call their mascot Monster D? What’s wrong with that name?
Cool
You are funny
I’m a caps fan, hate the flyers, follow gritty on instagram and like all his posts. Only good thing about philly (I’m from pa, I know!!!!!!)
Eat the rich
PHILLY FLYERS FOR LIIIIIFFFEEE
I'm sorry but I figured out who the flyers were inspired by to grittys looks. JAKE VORACEK. No? Look at Jake right now with that out of control beard and his beady eyes.
Oh I like the the super hot gritty girl
@Quole1234
3 жыл бұрын
ya damn. I am surprised no one is talking about her.
@cletusbeauregard1972
2 жыл бұрын
@@Quole1234 she replied elsewhere in the comments
gritty makes our team look like a complete joke
Avs fan here Love was the face of the Election 2020 when Philly sealed for Biden-Harris
The Flyers have been around for 52 years not 42. 2019-1967=52.
@adamclabaugh1945
5 жыл бұрын
West Coast Flyers I think we had a mascot those first 10 years and got rid of it. I think that is what they’re referring to
@kourii
8 ай бұрын
Yeah we had a mascot briefly in the '70s, Slapshot
I thought it was a Satanic muppet.
Lol
The funniest part about Gritty is how every, and I mean EVERY American yt channel refuses to even ACKNOWLEDGE how protesters and Antifa appropriated him to be their Anti-Trump.
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When you attack Philly.... Bad things happen, just ask Donald Trump
Wtf is gritty? A homeless person?!?!?
🥅🏑⛸🏒⛸️⛳🎣🚣Flyers choked cursed Spirit of 1776 monkey on the Bullies back, they have shaven their playoff beards last night & are going fishing & golfing today!
Gritty’s cool, but SJ Sharkie is still better!!!
As a fan since 83, I am shocked that an abortion of a mascot is now more important than the 40+ year cup drought. This franchises fan base has sunk to a new low
@mattb121395
5 жыл бұрын
As a fan since my birth, piss off clown. I wanna see a cup win as bad as the next person. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the mascot too dummy. I bet you hate the Phanatic and ice cream too
Nobody out side of Philly likes him
@bludhound73
5 жыл бұрын
Relentless DFZR I’m a Bruins fan. I think he’s one of the best mascots in sports.
@symba8050
5 жыл бұрын
I’m a canadiens fan and he’s personally the best mascot ever
@relentlessdfzr6322
5 жыл бұрын
Just because he is Goofy doesn't mean he's the best now that's mine opinion but whatever
@nicolem9827
5 жыл бұрын
“No one likes us, we don’t care”
@symba8050
5 жыл бұрын
Nicole M facts