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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  • @mhfromnh1421
    @mhfromnh14215 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Alex-jg2bc

    5 жыл бұрын

    MH from NH that is the best description of Gritty I have ever heard.

  • @mila6568

    @mila6568

    5 жыл бұрын

    And he would walk away, badass stuffing his face with Wawa pretzels.

  • @maskedmarvel

    @maskedmarvel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Best description

  • @amadislugo5334

    @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

    @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.

  • @Chief4Army117
    @Chief4Army1175 жыл бұрын

    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

    @LemSat87

    4 жыл бұрын

    'Sleep with one eye open tonight, bird' that sold me, I LOVED Gritty after this.

  • @Chrisstrohm14

    @Chrisstrohm14

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LemSat87 that got me right behind its Philly vs everyone

  • @joeheid4757

    @joeheid4757

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LemSat87 That "Bird" would beat the crap out of Gritty.

  • @LemSat87

    @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

    @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.

  • @SCDSlimShadow
    @SCDSlimShadow5 жыл бұрын

    "I've been in the business of professional idiocy for 40 years." There are few people that can lay claim to that.

  • @Mr.Pants45

    @Mr.Pants45

    5 жыл бұрын

    Um, every politician that has been around for 40 years?

  • @CreightonRabs

    @CreightonRabs

    5 жыл бұрын

    Professional idiocy is what both WaPo and the Flyers are experts in.

  • @logosofgame4273

    @logosofgame4273

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really? I was thinking anyone over the age of 40 could lay claim to that mantle!

  • @jash6105

    @jash6105

    5 жыл бұрын

    Donald trump

  • @Jay9999

    @Jay9999

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol and he really made it work for him

  • @PaulGuy
    @PaulGuy Жыл бұрын

    "Sleep with one eye open, bird." I think that as soon as this happened, every sports fan accepted him.

  • @SkyhookArt
    @SkyhookArt5 жыл бұрын

    Gritty forever! Thanks for using my face/cosplay as the opener for this video LOL.

  • @VorAbaddon

    @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

    @CinephileSanityTV

    5 жыл бұрын

    Can i get a Gritty lap dance????? 👍

  • @whosregis2000

    @whosregis2000

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CinephileSanityTV dude be careful, what if gritty shows up and likes it?

  • @kevhollywoodgamer7634

    @kevhollywoodgamer7634

    5 жыл бұрын

    ur so hot

  • @yungdash4852

    @yungdash4852

    5 жыл бұрын

    marry me

  • @scazermazz
    @scazermazz5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @chrisdurso3325

    5 жыл бұрын

    That and the Flyers sucked this year. Gritty was the only positive thing this year

  • @johngraham5693

    @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

  • @288theabe
    @288theabe5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @DanTheCaptain
    @DanTheCaptain5 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @brinjoness3386
    @brinjoness33865 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a sesame street character on mushrooms.

  • @AQUAPHREESH193

    @AQUAPHREESH193

    5 жыл бұрын

    HAHHAHA

  • @MichaelJW72

    @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

    @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.

  • @AJR-zg2py
    @AJR-zg2py5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @thomasc.5219

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah thugs and idiots. Only Boston can challenge you guys for those titles.

  • @uyd
    @uyd2 жыл бұрын

    Gritty is the offspring of a yeti and an orange snow cone.

  • @robgregory5136
    @robgregory51365 жыл бұрын

    His Twitter game won me over

  • @ItMeT0ken

    @ItMeT0ken

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @ryanford9705
    @ryanford97055 жыл бұрын

    I am a bruins fan and I love this mascot. Hilarious.

  • @Vilgotczky

    @Vilgotczky

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Ford Same

  • @SatansPooper

    @SatansPooper

    5 жыл бұрын

    i second this

  • @andyasbury

    @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

    @LarryKoopa64

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Ford I’m a penguins fan!

  • @stevenconnors5799

    @stevenconnors5799

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I’m a penguins fan and I LOVE gritty

  • @aidancollins4887
    @aidancollins48875 жыл бұрын

    Gritty had the greatest welcome to philly since Santa

  • @jasonrobertkeef
    @jasonrobertkeef5 жыл бұрын

    I managed to fall in love with Gritty in less than 30 seconds.

  • @moosehockey0989
    @moosehockey09895 жыл бұрын

    Lol the kids voicecrack at the end was so damn funny!

  • @shutinpaladin6811
    @shutinpaladin68115 жыл бұрын

    Gritty is so horrifying and stupid that he circles around to become endearing.

  • @alajibril
    @alajibril5 жыл бұрын

    Gritty won me over the minute he ventured to overwatch league he proved to me that he is a legend in the making

  • @Raldo5324
    @Raldo53245 жыл бұрын

    Being from Columbus, I love Stinger, but Gritty is no doubt the best mascot in the NHL.

  • @littlered6340
    @littlered63403 жыл бұрын

    Fucked around and found out. Gritty 2020

  • @Sumguyinavan_
    @Sumguyinavan_3 жыл бұрын

    Gritty wants Trump to know it was him and his people.

  • @TheLittlebrokenheart
    @TheLittlebrokenheart5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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 😂

  • @jakeferguson2942
    @jakeferguson29425 жыл бұрын

    I'm a huge Penguins fan but Gritty is awesome and hilarious!

  • @rahbean5083
    @rahbean50835 жыл бұрын

    Caps fan, but in love with Gritty

  • @MistressGlowWorm

    @MistressGlowWorm

    5 жыл бұрын

    RahBean Bean Kings Fan here, but Gritty is growing on me. I like what he stands for.

  • @charliechuckandpuck.hockey7366
    @charliechuckandpuck.hockey73665 жыл бұрын

    Talk about a home run by the flyers!

  • @Chrisstrohm14
    @Chrisstrohm142 жыл бұрын

    Like the flyers were laughed so was gritty but then Philadelphia defended him as our own

  • @terppu
    @terppu5 жыл бұрын

    National Meme Champion

  • @greyvilleian8620
    @greyvilleian86205 жыл бұрын

    We are all just waiting for the rangers to get a mascot

  • @joeclayton2121
    @joeclayton2121 Жыл бұрын

    Gritty was an Original Bully..... Dave Shultz

  • @DodgerFan1988
    @DodgerFan19885 жыл бұрын

    Gritty needs to get into a fight with Iceburgh.

  • @piggyroo100
    @piggyroo1005 жыл бұрын

    Looks like the unholy love child of Yukon Cornelius and the Bumbles.

  • @lycaon7871

    @lycaon7871

    5 жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment, this deserves more likes

  • @trenthulkinberry7526
    @trenthulkinberry75265 ай бұрын

    I like gritty, He's not some silly animal. He's a silly bastard.

  • @mattkominsky7308
    @mattkominsky73085 жыл бұрын

    As a ranger fan gritty is the best mascot in hockey

  • @Quole1234
    @Quole12343 жыл бұрын

    0:00 damn, can that girl be the new mascot?

  • @supernovachampions
    @supernovachampions5 жыл бұрын

    Go Gritty! Lets go Flyers!!

  • @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co
    @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co4 жыл бұрын

    As a Bruins fan, we love Gritty. The guy fights for his team and that's what this game is about.

  • @kittychatalot
    @kittychatalot5 жыл бұрын

    I dressed as Gritty for Halloween, and I am a Bolts fan! I love Gritty!

  • @expertexcavatinginc
    @expertexcavatinginc4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Ronsalhhy
    @Ronsalhhy5 жыл бұрын

    Gritty go on chapo

  • @rainbowwriter672
    @rainbowwriter6724 жыл бұрын

    Gritty is SO CUTE!

  • @joanthomas840
    @joanthomas8404 жыл бұрын

    I'm from new York 😁 and I love gritty I took to him when he first came out that's my gritty

  • @garyp1705
    @garyp1705 Жыл бұрын

    Kids love him. Dont change, gritty!

  • @myindigoblues5796
    @myindigoblues57962 жыл бұрын

    I love Gritty 🥰🧡

  • @Alexandros.Mograine
    @Alexandros.Mograine4 жыл бұрын

    0:00 i lost... thats my kind of mascot

  • @reggie93441
    @reggie93441 Жыл бұрын

    I love Gritty

  • @EaglesMan710
    @EaglesMan7105 жыл бұрын

    That’s Philadelphia for you, when somebody attacks one of our own, we step in and fight for them.

  • @kiwi.fruit.twitch.sensation
    @kiwi.fruit.twitch.sensation5 жыл бұрын

    gritty is a worker

  • @Warioda
    @Warioda5 жыл бұрын

    Hey, hey, hey! Gritty errrrryday!

  • @ranelgallardo7031
    @ranelgallardo70315 жыл бұрын

    Gritty is to mascots as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are to pro cheerleaders.

  • @coachsean9982
    @coachsean99823 жыл бұрын

    We agonized on what to come up with, and settled on a Muppet version of Jacub Voracek

  • @DuckOfRubber
    @DuckOfRubber5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Bentmatchstick
    @Bentmatchstick5 жыл бұрын

    whos the performer?

  • @kidnamedfinger6323
    @kidnamedfinger63233 ай бұрын

    There's some sort of weird Mandela effect going on with gritty. I feel like I've seen him well before 2018.

  • @cameronheidelauf9623
    @cameronheidelauf9623Ай бұрын

    Gritty really really reminds me of cookie monster with those googly eyes that moves and bounces around 😊

  • @politecat4236
    @politecat4236 Жыл бұрын

    Gritty looks a lot like the Honey Monster from Sugar Puffs

  • @comicozy8786
    @comicozy87865 жыл бұрын

    Canucks fan here. Love Gritty

  • @coIakat

    @coIakat

    3 ай бұрын

    Same here!

  • @angiadiamonte4632
    @angiadiamonte46325 жыл бұрын

    Pretty Gritty

  • @vasthockey4382
    @vasthockey43825 жыл бұрын

    Stars fans can kind of relate

  • @se03kazana

    @se03kazana

    5 жыл бұрын

    As a Stars fan, I agree

  • @topcatmatt
    @topcatmatt3 жыл бұрын

    Noted anarchist thinker, Gritty

  • @hillhead11
    @hillhead115 жыл бұрын

    You know your season and organization is in the shiter when your mascot is the highlight

  • @mikedavis8872
    @mikedavis88725 жыл бұрын

    It's been said Philadelphia fan's would boo the Easter bunny

  • @johngraham5693

    @johngraham5693

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mike Davis Easter bunny Santa clause the pope our mascots we get bored to quickly

  • @diamondkonk1196
    @diamondkonk11965 жыл бұрын

    Owl league is where I found em

  • @stonefruitmedia
    @stonefruitmedia Жыл бұрын

    There is no way to Gritty. Gritty is the way.

  • @DavidSnoopyOfficial
    @DavidSnoopyOfficial Жыл бұрын

    And now Gritty has been beaten up by the Miz

  • @709mash
    @709mash3 жыл бұрын

    The NHL ows the Flyers big time.

  • @invertedname3099
    @invertedname30993 жыл бұрын

    I just wanna know more about that one stacked hot fan lol.

  • @IronWolf277
    @IronWolf2775 жыл бұрын

    Whats not to like about Gritty? He came out of his cave and loves America!

  • @leelantern805
    @leelantern8055 жыл бұрын

    I hate the flyers but we love gritty

  • @shannon6000
    @shannon60005 жыл бұрын

    “ professional idiocy”

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool5 жыл бұрын

    I blame the san diego chicken for starting all of this bs

  • @indierockyhockey
    @indierockyhockey2 жыл бұрын

    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!! 😂 🧡🖤

  • @maximnicola4182
    @maximnicola41824 жыл бұрын

    The antihero of working people everywhere!

  • @bobsmith-ov3kn
    @bobsmith-ov3kn4 жыл бұрын

    I've never wanted to have sex with something more in my life

  • @stevenconnors5799
    @stevenconnors57995 жыл бұрын

    By rigid, does he mean classless

  • @leothehero4629
    @leothehero46292 жыл бұрын

    Philadelphia makes you believe a liitle more then usually

  • @chad_b
    @chad_b5 жыл бұрын

    Well Philly now has the best mascot in the league, too bad the team still sucks right now lol

  • @zmhmusic

    @zmhmusic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Chad B big fax

  • @matthewoconnor5975

    @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

    @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

    @dtoxnotbotox

    5 жыл бұрын

    9-1-1 in the last 11 games. Stolie and Hart with a combined 9.40 save percentage...

  • @chad_b

    @chad_b

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dtoxnotbotox yeah, remember their win streak last year? How'd that turn out? Lol

  • @Jay9999
    @Jay99995 жыл бұрын

    He Looks like bobby clarke

  • @johnpatrick5297
    @johnpatrick52973 жыл бұрын

    Prison orange.....fitting

  • @borismuller86
    @borismuller865 жыл бұрын

    They decided not to call their mascot Monster D? What’s wrong with that name?

  • @mejackandreyd1245
    @mejackandreyd12455 жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @Colbycunha40
    @Colbycunha40 Жыл бұрын

    You are funny

  • @audreyconfer7678
    @audreyconfer76785 жыл бұрын

    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!!!!!!)

  • @fattybogracious
    @fattybogracious5 жыл бұрын

    Eat the rich

  • @missycollins1890
    @missycollins18905 жыл бұрын

    PHILLY FLYERS FOR LIIIIIFFFEEE

  • @bryantmoore204
    @bryantmoore2045 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Jay9999
    @Jay99995 жыл бұрын

    Oh I like the the super hot gritty girl

  • @Quole1234

    @Quole1234

    3 жыл бұрын

    ya damn. I am surprised no one is talking about her.

  • @cletusbeauregard1972

    @cletusbeauregard1972

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Quole1234 she replied elsewhere in the comments

  • @Bleedinflyers84
    @Bleedinflyers845 жыл бұрын

    gritty makes our team look like a complete joke

  • @TheHeston83
    @TheHeston833 жыл бұрын

    Avs fan here Love was the face of the Election 2020 when Philly sealed for Biden-Harris

  • @westcoastflyers144
    @westcoastflyers1445 жыл бұрын

    The Flyers have been around for 52 years not 42. 2019-1967=52.

  • @adamclabaugh1945

    @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

    @kourii

    8 ай бұрын

    Yeah we had a mascot briefly in the '70s, Slapshot

  • @DevilFish69
    @DevilFish694 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was a Satanic muppet.

  • @mejackandreyd1245
    @mejackandreyd12455 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @BauthorFowler
    @BauthorFowler3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @depooly2k858
    @depooly2k8582 жыл бұрын

    🤪

  • @danmatasa6648
    @danmatasa66485 жыл бұрын

    🤦‍♂️

  • @baubret
    @baubret3 жыл бұрын

    When you attack Philly.... Bad things happen, just ask Donald Trump

  • @ziggymorris8760
    @ziggymorris87604 жыл бұрын

    Wtf is gritty? A homeless person?!?!?

  • @renecruz8973
    @renecruz89733 жыл бұрын

    🥅🏑⛸🏒⛸️⛳🎣🚣Flyers choked cursed Spirit of 1776 monkey on the Bullies back, they have shaven their playoff beards last night & are going fishing & golfing today!

  • @moonglow630
    @moonglow6305 жыл бұрын

    Gritty’s cool, but SJ Sharkie is still better!!!

  • @dangc8315
    @dangc83155 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

  • @relentlessdfzr6322
    @relentlessdfzr63225 жыл бұрын

    Nobody out side of Philly likes him

  • @bludhound73

    @bludhound73

    5 жыл бұрын

    Relentless DFZR I’m a Bruins fan. I think he’s one of the best mascots in sports.

  • @symba8050

    @symba8050

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m a canadiens fan and he’s personally the best mascot ever

  • @relentlessdfzr6322

    @relentlessdfzr6322

    5 жыл бұрын

    Just because he is Goofy doesn't mean he's the best now that's mine opinion but whatever

  • @nicolem9827

    @nicolem9827

    5 жыл бұрын

    “No one likes us, we don’t care”

  • @symba8050

    @symba8050

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nicole M facts