The weird and wonderful world of mascots
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey delves into the weird and wonderful world of football mascots and is joined by the foremost authorities on the subject - the man who literally wrote the book on mascots, Nick Miller, and a woman who has actually designed a real life mascot herself, Katie Whyatt.
We look at problematic shrimps, diving hornets, the cult of Boiler Man, mascot marriages, the mascot Grand National, and many more aspects of this most absurd corner of the footballing world.
There's also the hilarious and heart-warming story of Kio, the anti-racism mascot with a globe for a head, that Katie designed when she was 11-years-old
Give the gift of The Athletic this Christmas
Subscribe to The Athletic and get a second subscription for free to give to someone as a gift
Head to theathletic.com/fplpod to take advantage of this offer now
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:09.4 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. Oh, he's there! Brilliant! |
| 0:17.8 | He's round the goalkeeper, he's done it! |
| 0:21.7 | He's absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was |
| 0:31.4 | without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.4 | It does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.4 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:50.2 | Problematic shrimps, diving hornets, the cult of Boilermann, |
| 0:53.9 | and the story of Keough, the anti-racism mascot with a globe for a head. |
| 0:58.3 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés. |
| 1:03.0 | Right now, if you subscribe to The Athletic, you can give another subscription as a gift for free. |
| 1:07.5 | It's the perfect present for any football fan this Christmas. |
| 1:10.4 | Enjoy great analysis |
| 1:11.4 | and in-depth features from the very best football writers around, as well as ad-free versions |
| 1:15.6 | of all of our podcasts. Wave goodbye to 2020 and say hello to 2021 by sharing the gift of the |
| 1:21.8 | Athletic's unrivaled football coverage for the whole year. It's the perfect present for yourself |
| 1:26.2 | and someone else. Just go to the athletic.com forward slash cliches pod. It's the perfect present for yourself and someone else. |
| 1:32.6 | Just go to the athletic.com forward slash clichés pod. That's theathletic.com forward slash cliches pod and sign up. |
| 1:40.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 49 of the cliches pod. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.