Love This Absolutely Shitfaced Mascot At A Soccer Match

(Source) — Vienna, a club that last won the Austrian Bundesliga in 2013, currently occupy sixth position in the league with very little left to play for as the European positions slip out of reach – not that it stopped Super Leo from celebrating. As much as we all want to believe that Leo is an actual real life Lion we have to break it to you that he isn’t… it is actually a 42-year-old Austrian man in a fury suit. I know, we’re sorry. According to Austrian newspaper Heute, Super Leo attended ‘Löwenfest’, which means ‘Lion festival’ to celebrate his birthday. Keep up the good work, Leo!

Look man, I love America. I bleed red, white and blue. Stars and stripes. Don’t tread on me. All that good stuff. But where we get it very wrong and Europe gets it very right is shit like this. Super Leo is an AWESOME mascot. He’s exciting the crowd, he’s entertaining, he’s firing on all cylinders. And this article admits as much, they tell him to keep up the good work. There’s a poll at the end of the article asking if he’s the best mascot ever and “No” isn’t even a goddamn option

But can you imagine if this happened in America? Leo would be crucified. There would be thinkpieces (a word that makes me want to puke just saying it in my head) about the example he sets for kids and how Leo is a symbol of the out of control male sportsfan. He’d be forced to resign, issue a public apology, and pretend to go to rehab. But not in Europe. In Europe he’s just the life of the party who went out and had a few for his birthday. In Europe he’s a fucking hero who needs to keep it up. Again, I love America and think Europe fucked up a lot of shit. Their languages, their overall personalities, coins for weird amounts of dollars, electrical outlets, and yeah I’ll say it, the metric system is bullshit. But the way they celebrate the consumption of dangerous amounts of alcohol is something they knocked out of the park.