Gritty rides motorcycle, implores us to "remember the first time you saw me naked" in third birthday celebration
The Philadelphia Flyers mascot is ringing in his third year by eating cake and motorcycling around
Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot and googly-eyed hero of Pennsylvania, turned three last week. In order to celebrate his big day, the ginger-bearded freak invited his public out to watch a giant inflatable version of him bob around, enjoy a cake made in his image, and ride around on a motorcycle before insisting that we all picture him naked.
Gritty announced his birthday festivities in a letter, posted in full by NHL.com, that he released on the eve of September 24th, “National Gritty Day.” In it, he explains that he has “[grown] one year older and like a tall tree, [grown] one more ring in my innards.” He tells his devotees that he’ll be cruising around the city with “a couple hundred pounds of pure adrenaline between my legs” for his birthday and requests that the city pay him proper tribute.
“Tomorrow, we celebrate ME,” he writes. “…Tomorrow I ask for this: Remember what you love about me, remember the first time I made you laugh, remember the first time you saw me naked, remember what you felt the first time we locked eyes, and remember every time you saw me in your dreams and woke up in a cold sweat.”