A mate of mine supports Sheffield United, and he was telling me years ago that he was once in a pub in Sheffied and saw Captain Blade in there, sat on his own at the bar, still in his Captain Blade outfit, but without the head, looking very miserable and just really rough.
It made me laugh but did also make me wonder if ALL mascots are a bit like that underneath the outfit. I had previously thought that they would be likely to be the kind of ultra-irritating 'office joker' types, but after hearing that story I now suspect that at least some of them are just unemployable wasters, or people whose lives have really hit rock bottom, and that is what they are reduced to. I'd like to think so actually.