Q's father Andreas was introduced during pre-game and halftime of the San Jose Earthquakes - Real Salt Lake game at Spartan Stadium on Saturday, 6/18/05 (in honor of Father's Day). So if Q's full name is Quakesadus Mascotacus, that would make his dad Andreas Mascotacus. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
I think that it is pretty clear that that is a latin species description, which is terrible news for humanity because it means that there is an entire species of those horrible ...things... instead of a single freak product of a failed experiment by a scientist who's immoral quest for knowledge took him far beyond the limits of what is good and noble.
Considering Papa Smurf's white beard, perhaps he was Andreas' father (and in essence, Q's grandfather)? GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
I am not sure the NASL had any official mascots. Maybe some teams did, but not many. I recall that the Portland Timbers had some guy dressed as a lumberjack, maybe they called him "Timber Jack". Anyway, there was a log and a huge, loud chainsaw, and when the Timbers scored, Timber Jack fired up the loud chainsaw and cut a chunk off of the end of the log. It was pretty funny actually. Krazy George was a fixture for most of the NASL years at Spartan Stadium. Of course, he had been a SJSU fixture for years prior to the Quakes. He used to do some NFL games, and I recall him doing his thing at the Astrodome for a Monday night game, Steelers vs. Oilers. He had the place in a frenzy. Even Howard Cosell mentioned him. I think the Steelers had three illegal motion penalties in a row during one set of downs. Krazy had the crowd going real good. It was probably 1975, at Spartan Stadium, back when the teams sat on opposite sides of the field, that George had a beer throwing incident with the LA Aztecs. There was sort of a dugout, with a roof, over the team benches. George stood on top of their dugout, pounding the drum and jumping around. It annoyed the Aztecs, to say the least. Someone on the Aztecs bench threw a towel or something at him, and he grabbed a beer from someone and threw it back at the guy. It was probably right on the "edge" of getting out of control.
Thanks for the memories, sj_oldtimer... awesome info! By the way, were these actual mascots or simply visual representations of each NASL team in 1979 (just curious)? GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
QuakeSADUS!?! They're putting Death Metal guys in the stands with the children? Then again, that's an old Bay Area band that could use some side cash. I want to hear a horrific death growl next game - would go well with the eggy-looking eyes-of-a-raging-speed-freak look Cracky Smurf brings to proceedings. Gee, wonder why the kids are scared? Don't wanna play with...SADUS??
Those definitely fall into the category of "characticures". Just someone's personal representation of the teams. I do see actual team logos on the characters. Some of the teams had cheerleaders (The Quakes had the "Shakers") for a while.