16 Facts About Phillie Phanatic

1.

Phillie Phanatic is the official mascot for the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team.

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2.

The Phillie Phanatic is widely acknowledged as one of the best ballpark mascots, and one of the most recognizable mascots in North American sports.

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3.

Phillie Phanatic replaced "Philadelphia Phil" and "Philadelphia Phillis", a pair of siblings dressed in 18th-century garb to invoke the city's revolutionary spirit from 1776.

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4.

Phillie Phanatic debuted on April 25,1978, at The Vet, when the Phils played the Chicago Cubs.

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5.

Phillies regained the rights to original Phanatic beginning in the 2022 season after a settlement with the mascot creators.

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6.

One week before the Phillies had their 2006 opener, the Phanatic was "dyed" red as part of the team's week-long promotion to "Paint the Town Red".

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7.

However, the Phillie Phanatic's antics are not always popular with opposition players and coaches.

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8.

Phillie Phanatic has the dubious distinction of being the most sued mascot in sports.

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9.

Phillie Phanatic appeared in the closing credits of the film Rocky Balboa .

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10.

In March 2009, the Phillie Phanatic appeared on The Simpsons in the episode "Gone Maggie Gone", greeting a party of nuns disembarking from a ship at the future site of Philadelphia.

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11.

In 2010, the Phillie Phanatic appeared in the This is SportsCenter series of advertisements with Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees, where Jeter asks others in the ESPN locker room who used his razor, with the Phillie Phanatic's signature green hair sticking out from the blades.

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12.

Phillie Phanatic was mimicked in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia called "The World Series Defense".

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13.

On January 26,2012, the Phillie Phanatic appeared as itself on an episode of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock called "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell".

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14.

Phillie Phanatic was on an episode of the show The Goldbergs in 2015 called "The Lost Boy", and made a cameo appearance on College GameDay when the ESPN show visited Philadelphia for a matchup between Temple and Notre Dame.

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15.

Phillie Phanatic was voted "best mascot ever" by Sports Illustrated Kids.

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16.

In 2009, the Phillie Phanatic was one of several recipients of the Great Friend to Kids Awards, given by the Please Touch Museum .

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