Dan Mullan/Getty Images Soohorang and Bandabi are serving as the mascots for this year’s 2018 Winter Games and Paralympic Games. The two animals are not only cute, they also both carry significant meanings in Korean culture. One resembles a white tiger, which is considered Korea’s guardian animal. At last, the 2018 Winter Olympics have begun. […]
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The Radical Kindness of Dan Meers, Godfather of NFL Mascots
There weren’t many people working full-time as NFL mascots in 1989, when Dan Meers became the Kansas City Chiefs’ KC Wolf. In the almost 30 years since, he’s seen the mascot community grow into a small corps of hyperactive 20-somethings who churn out appearances at hospitals, schools, and nursing homes across the country. They tend […]