On this day 25 years ago, the creepiest mascot in pro sports was born out of a giant egg at Coors Field in Denver.
Dinger the dinosaur is what he is because crews found dinosaur bones while digging to build the baseball stadium for the Rockies. So I get the point.
What I don't get is what Dinger is... If you go to other sporting events the mascot usually does tricks and entertains the crowd. We are lucky in Colorado because we may have the best ever in the Nuggets mascot, Rocky.
But Dinger is just a chubby, Barney-looking dino with odd spots all over him like he has dinosaur chickenpox, and the only trick he has is spinning his head around (which is creepy in itself).
Maybe creepy is the wrong word, but I do kind of feel like I am on an episode of a PBS show for toddlers every time I go to Coors Field because of him.
Regardless, happy 25th birthday to the one and only Dinger!