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This Benny the Bull character is bad news, what with his drug dealing and fighting the police. So it doesn't surprise us that when a opposing team's player is assaulted in the middle of a game, he'd point his finger toward the bovine mascot.
Boston's Kevin Garnett and James Posey accused Benny the Bull of shooting T-shirts at them during the fourth quarter of last night's Bulls-Celtics game at the United Center. According to Bulls' senior director of public and media relations Tim Hallam, one of the IncrediBulls -- the ones who toss shirt to the crowd -- fired an errant shot with his t-shirt gun while tripping. And Benny just happened to to be in the general vicinity?
So both Posey and Garnett claim they were hit, yet the official story was that a single IncrediBull shooter was involved? Sounds like the Bulls hired the Warren Commission to look into this matter.
On the other hand, do KG and Posey really think Benny the Bull's weapon of choice would be made of cotton? His recent behavior suggests he'd resort to something a bit more likely to inflict damage.
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uh, yeah - you guys forgot a letter in a headline again.
you're welcome.
Back and to the left...back...and to the left.
Not to be a pedant for mere pedantry's sake, but --as the above-referenced USA Today piece makes clear-- it was not Benny the Bull who got busted for selling weed a few years back, but rather "Da Bull" --you know, that peculiar, shaggy, "woolly bully"-type organism whose bearing is considerably more athletic than the more rotund Benny of recent vintage.
It was indeed Benny who got popped in that mini-bike incident in Grant Park that is referenced in the ESPN link, which itself reports:
In 2005, another Bulls mascot, Da Bull, was sentenced to probation for 1½ years for possession of cannabis with intent to deliver (emphasis added).
So anyway, I surmise that it was the actual Benny --and not Da Bull-- who caused the recent errant teeshirt shot from those goofs in the Mickey Dee's Fun Bunch with the air rifles.
Oh, and since we're on the subject of Bulls mascots, I should note my own recollection of the original Benny, who was anything but cute and cuddly and indeed was rather fierce looking (more like Da Bull than the newer Benny, it has to be said) with a headpiece that was a very fair reproduction of the official team logo and --if it's not out of line for me to say so-- a most impressive tail.
KG and Posey got hit with a T-shirt?! What a bunch of pussies. They play basketball where nowadays the flagrant elbows and ghetto style lane fouls are expected. I wouldn't think they would want to advertise that getting hit by a t-shirt cannon from a dumb mascot hurt them.
OK, technically there was Benny the Bull and Da Bull -- and each one has a checkered past. But the Bulls seem to have done away with Da Bull and given Benny more of an edge in recent years, so in his current iteration he seems to be a combination of the former mascots. For the sake of the post, it seemed easier to merge them together...
I'm sorry, this is the NBA? And these guys are whining about a t-shirt? Time to put on your big boy underpants and grow a pair, KG.
That's pretty cool, the IncrediBull was tripping while working. I have a hard enough time leaving the house while tripping let alone handling firearms.
I heard Benny crosses streets while on a cell phone too.