{"id":240109,"date":"2023-11-02T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T01:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240109"},"modified":"2023-11-02T01:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T01:44:05","slug":"flyers-mascot-gritty-poses-with-emotional-support-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/flyers-mascot-gritty-poses-with-emotional-support-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers mascot Gritty poses with &apos;emotional support alligator&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty sends crowd wild by posing with infamous &#8217;emotional support alligator&#8217; on the jumbotron&#8230; a month after the same five-foot reptile was turned away from Phillies baseball game<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gritty completed his &#8216;Steve Irwin&#8217; Halloween costume with a live 5-foot gator\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;Willy&#8217; the gator was previously turned away from a Phillies game in September\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As if the Philadelphia Flyers&#8217; deranged, orange, hellbeast of a mascot couldn&#8217;t get any more terrifying &#8211; he got his hands on an alligator.<\/p>\n<p>But this is no ordinary alligator: this is an emotional support alligator, one of the finest creatures to enter the City of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n<p>Just before a game against the Carolina Hurricanes, Flyers mascot Gritty was seen holding &#8216;Wally&#8217;, an emotional support alligator, during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Gritty posed for pictures before the game, dressed up as the late &#8216;Crocodile Hunter&#8217; Steve Irwin for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>While this may be Wally&#8217;s first time inside one of Philadelphia&#8217;s fine sports venue&#8217;s, this isn&#8217;t his first attempt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/00\/77293895-12699795-Philadelphia_Flyers_mascot_Gritty_showed_off_a_live_five_foot_al-a-1_1698884056575.jpg\" height=\"757\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty showed off a live five-foot alligator he brought to a game<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/00\/77293893-12699795-Gritty_got_his_hands_on_Wally_the_gator_as_part_of_a_Steve_Irwin-a-2_1698884056619.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gritty got his hands on &#8216;Wally&#8217; the gator as part of a Steve Irwin Halloween costume<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/00\/77293897-12699795-Wally_is_an_emotional_support_gator_who_has_previously_been_turn-a-3_1698884056652.jpg\" height=\"635\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wally is an &#8217;emotional support gator&#8217; who has previously been turned away by the Phillies<\/p>\n<p>Wally&#8217;s owner, Joie Henney of Hershey, Pennsylvania, attempted to bring him to a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game at Citizens Bank Park back in September.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were turned away as the ballpark&#8217;s policy is to only allow service animals, not emotional support animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Henney told CBS News that Wally makes him &#8216;feel loved&#8217;, adding, &#8216;I&#8217;ll get lonely and stuff like that and he seems to sense that stuff and he&#8217;ll come up and he&#8217;ll give me a hug.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Wally was able to provide some emotional support to Henney on what was an unfortunate ride home from the Wells Fargo Center &#8211; after the Flyers fell to the Hurricanes 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nhl\/article-12699795\/Philadelphia-Flyers-mascot-Gritty-sends-crowd-wild-posing-infamous-emotional-support-alligator-jumbotron-month-five-foot-reptile-turned-away-Phillies-baseball-game.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty sends crowd wild by posing with infamous &#8217;emotional support alligator&#8217; on the jumbotron&#8230; a month after the same five-foot reptile was turned away from Phillies baseball&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flyers mascot Gritty poses with &amp;apos;emotional support alligator&amp;apos; 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