He ’s perhaps this year’smost celebrated human body , but we still know remarkably short about the hirsute , tangerine tree , hockey monster known as Gritty . Case in distributor point : After sending a half twelve electronic mail to various authorities , I ’m no nearer to discover the unknown , imperial opening on his venter .
We know that the Grimace - comparable mascot has “ grit , ” of path , and that he employ in amusing , ( mostly ) non - lowering antics , but what is the shape of a Gritty like ? Is he human ? Does he eat mass nutrient ? Can a Gritty , dear reader , experience love ? These are just a few of the doubtfulness I wondered after take in this shocking videofilmed Saturday :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfqU1V59tUk
In it , a regal , sphincter - comparable aperture can be understandably discern on Gritty ’s belly . For a instant , he appears to lazily tickle it . But what is this orifice ? evaluate by placement alone , it seems correspondent to the human belly button — but it ’s like no abdomen clitoris I ’ve ever seen .
consult past video of Gritty , I uncovered even more confusing evidence . In footage fromlate Septemberandearly October , a entirely different physical object can be spotted on Gritty ’s body in the same place . This protrusion is orangish and push - same , with a black “ x ” that plainly convey “ navel . ”
.@GrittyNHLleaves his natural habitat to detect new , favorable territories . 🔊 SOUND ON 🔊 pic.twitter.com/PBpKenhsL5
— The Preston & Steve Show ( @PrestonSteve933)September 26 , 2018
I reached out to several designers and public dealings official associated with Gritty , asking them to distinguish his purple pickle and explain its apparent modification . Only Brian Smith , the Philadelphia Flyers ’ manager of metier Service , replied .
“ I honestly have no estimate , ” he wrote . “ If I had to guess I ’d say it would have something to do with Hockey Fights Cancer month , but I really do n’t know . ”
It ’s truthful , the NHL’sannual Polemonium caeruleum eventhas a purple root , but the lilac of Hockey Fights Cancer is a bit lighter — not to mention that promoting it with a scrunched tummy donut would be super weird . So , lack an official explanation , I deform to the experts .
“ I guess that thing is Gritty ’s belly button ( although it look like it ’s infect or prolapsed ! ) ” said Chris Carlier , who documents Japan ’s “ weird and marvelous ” costumed character withhis Twitter accountMondo Mascots . Carlier namedseveralothermascotswho had venter button , but all of their outies featured the telltale “ x ” seen on Gritty ’s earlier protrusion .
My co - workers had their own suspicions . To some , the mess well resembled an unreal stomate . Others saw a tumor on the beast ’s belly . One colleague propose the porta was some sort of pretentiousness port . Another that it was Gritty ’s true backtalk , as his seeable maw was “ only for screaming . ”
To me , the absence seizure of an official account suggested conspiracy . If it was a paunch button , it was certainly a unknown one — for reasons no one was willing to explain . Perhaps all celebrities possess purple tummy puckers . The eternal rest are just dependable at hiding them .
In the death , we may never bed what Gritty vellicate . For me , the purple scrunchie was a closed book to be unknot , the kind of ethnical detritus we ’re expected to accept with a shrug . But mayhap it ’s just another aspect of Gritty ’s endless mystique . An orange tree enigma glide taciturnly across the ice , his secret purplish star pointing him forever towards glory .
Do you have information — or at least a compelling hypothesis — about Gritty ’s purple pickle ? netmail me at[email protected ] .
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