As mentioned in today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, the Swingin’ Friar is 1 of 19 candidates up for induction into the National Mascot Hall of Fame.
Ok, I can already hear some of you groaning. This is slightly (mostly) ridiculous, it’s not THE Hall of Fame, this is mole hill, trying to be a mountain. I get all that. But that misses the larger point that this is something. While a relatively new creation, the Mascot Hall of Fame, located in Whiting, IN (about 30 minutes outside of Chicago), is a National Hall of Fame.