Chicagoist: Benny the Bull Accused of Assaulting KG

grandma

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:58:58 -0600

I heard Benny crosses streets while on a cell phone too.

jg

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:19:02 -0600

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.

JAH

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:23:09 -0600

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.

Benjy Lipsman

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:49:26 -0600

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...

mepps

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:42:06 -0600

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.

Nebulizer

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:24:29 -0600

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.

mike_thoms

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:12:08 -0600

Back and to the left...back...and to the left.

celerysalt

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:04:33 -0600

uh, yeah - you guys forgot a letter in a headline again. you're welcome.