The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially (informally) includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional, representative spokespeople for consumer products, such as the rabbit used in advertising and marketing for the General Mills brand of breakfast cereal, Trix.
In the world of sports, mascots are also used for merchandising. Team mascots are often confused with team nicknames. While the two can be interchangeable, they are not always the same. For example, the athletic teams of the University of Alabama are nicknamed the Crimson Tide, while their mascot is an elephant named Big Al. Team mascots may take the form of a logo, person, live animal, inanimate object, or a costumed character, and often appear at team matches and other related events, sports mascots are often used as marketing tools for their teams to children. Since the mid-20th century, costumed characters have provided teams with an opportunity to choose a fantasy creature as their mascot, as is the case with the Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, the Phillie Phanatic.
Benny the Bull, commonly known as Benny, is the mascot of the Chicago Bulls, a role he has filled since 1969.
For more than 40 years, Benny the Bull has been entertaining Chicago Bulls fans, first at Chicago Stadium (1969–1994), and then at the United Center (1994–present). He has become just as popular as some of the franchise's most notable figures, such as players Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, and head coach Phil Jackson. Benny is one of the longest-tenured mascots in the NBA and in all of professional sports. Benny was named after Ben Bentley, the Bulls first Public Relations Manager and Stadium Announcer.
The Benny the Bull suit consists of a whole-body bull costume made of bright red fur with large white eyes, a tan snout, a long red tail and black gloves with red fur on the back. Over the suit, Benny wears an authentic uniform (road red/black and home whites) and team-appointed athletic shoes. His jersey bears the name "Benny" above the number "1" on the back. Benny sports several different costumes based on the theme of the game as well as his overall "mood". Benny the Bull can also do many different kinds of dances.
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Mordy Horwich, a high school senior and science prodigy with no athletic ability whatsoever, puts his bright academic future at risk to follow his dream: to play college basketball. He sets forth on a mission to catch the eye of athletic recruiters by becoming a national celebrity.
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Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence where she meets the great love of her life, ice hockey star Petterson-Jonsson and the lead up to the fatal night where the story begins.
Keywords: brother-sister-relationship, car, church, crown-jewels, director, fire-truck, flashback, funeral, gas-explosion, gold
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A struggling Minor League team faces a new challenge after an 0-10 season, the rich pockets of Richard Wellington. Wellington seeks to purchase the team from an owner struggling to keep fans in the stands, advertisers to pay the bills, and players around in general. When the team owner Joe Smith declines his offer, Wellington does what any offended and deep pocketed bad guy often does, buys a new expansion team down the road and tries to buy up what little talent they have, including their coach. Now Smith must find a new coach, assemble players, and round up enough advertisers to keep the team together long enough to face off against their new rival expansion team. When he meets former retired college Coach Whistler the pair try and turn around the fortunes of this down on its luck team and give it just what it gave them, a second chance.
Minor League, Major Attitude!
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Jimmy Winterpock at age fourteen is 5'5 and weighs 188 pounds. Outside the comfort of his family and church, life for Jimmy is a constant struggle. The cruel taunts of his classmates make going to school or playing sports a humiliating experience. Yet, he still manages to focus on his goals; to lose weight and win over the girl of his dreams.
Keywords: fat-boy, obese
Preacher: Giving up is easy... Getting back up is hard.
Aspiring mascot attempts to overcome his nerves by teaming up with the mascot legend.
Walter had a dream, but Schnabel had a secret.
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him.
Keywords: american-football, bagpipes, bathroom, bully, bully-comeuppance, cheerleader, climbing-a-chain-link-fence, compassion, erection, escape-attempt
A zero will rise
Popularity isn't a contest... It's a War!
Luther: High school is a lot like prison: Bad food, high fences; the sex you want, you ain't gettin', the sex you gettin', you don't want. I've seen terrible things.::Dizzy: Yesterday, an eighty-year-old librarian broke my penis.::Luther: You win.
Danielle: I don't even know what to call you.::Dizzy/Gil: Broke-dick seems to be popular.
Luther: You know those moments when a man makes a decision that'll change his entire life and he steps up to become the hero he was meant to be? This ain't one of those moments.
Glen: I imagine God having an ass like that. Did that sound gay?
Luther: If you're gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. Otherwise you'll be lined in chalk.
Nora: He's got kind of a... Brad Pitt thing going there.::Glen: I saw a little... Anne Heche there too. Does *that* sound gay?
Danielle: Carmen: more cheer, less pole dance, 'kay? You don't want guys stuffing bills down your panties.::Carmen: What panties?
Connor: What are you doing, freak?::Dizzy: Knocking you into the hall, and me into the history books.
Connor: I think I oughta go over there and kick his ass.::Danielle: That's great, because I've always dreamed of dating the expelled guy.::Courtney: Expelled guys rock!
Dizzy: The point is, today nobody stuffed me in my locker or singed off my ass hair.
We love You with all that we are
we serve You with all that we have
You are the reason in our life
You are the price
We bow our devotion till the end
You have the people in this land
You sent for Your righteous hearts to show
that we are the glorious church You know
With hearts as one we offer praise
to You Almighty King who saves
may we give glory and honor to You
as we proclaim Your name
with every nation make You know
until every hearts and every soul
bow down before Your throne adore
and confess that Jesus is Lord
VERSE
Habang Hindi karapat dapat
Pag-ukulan ng habag at wagas mong pagsinta.
Habang walang kakayanang
Masuklian ka ng mabuti sa lahat mong ginawa.
BRIDGE:
Yakap Mo ako sa aking karumihan.
Inibig Mo ako ng di kayang tumbasan
CHORUS:
O Diyos ng katarungan at katwiran na
kahit minsa'y di nabahiran ng
kabanala't kalwalhatian
salamat sa sukdulang biyaya Mo.
O Diyos ng Pag-ibig na mas
malawak pa kaysa aking mga pagkakasala.
Higit pa sa buhay ko