I went to the UIC (University of Illinois - Chicago) basketball game on Tuesday. They played Murray State, it was a great game, UIC came back from a 15 point deficit to beat the Racers.
It was Army night, I guess, they had a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq had the ball to the ref at the beginning of the game. That was a cool thing to do.
There was a more bizarre thing at halftime. There was a big blow up Army mascot guy.
He was called something like "Army Dan" and they brought him out to half court and I guess he was supposed to dance or something. Unfortunately, there was something wrong with the costume and the head was having a hard time staying inflated, so he just stood there at half court.
The UIC mascot, Sparky, was kind of dressed up in a bad Halloween costume version of an Army uniform. Not long after I took the picture with my cameraphone, the mascot shot the blow up Army guy with his T-Shirt gun, which mas made to look kind of like an M-16. I guess it was because the UIC mascot didn't like the fact the Army guy wasn't dancing to the music like he was supposed to be.
Here's the Army mascot with the person who had to had to "wrangle" him:
I apologize for the picture quality, I need to take a real camera to these things in the future.
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