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Harvey Is 25
by Paul on 02/17/09 at 07:56 AM ET
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from Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun,
“Feb. 16, 1984: I was walking to the Saddledome with a costume that still smelled like glue in a garbage bag,” said Kelba, who’d played Ralph the Dog at McMahon Stadium for four years before convincing the Flames to give the NHL’s first mascot a shot….
Hired for $50 a game by the skeptical Flames, Kelba knew he didn’t have much time to make an impression before he’d be tossed out the door with the $4,000 costume he made.
“They didn’t think it was going to work, so they didn’t even introduce me as their mascot,” said Kelba, now 48.
“I sat down, and within a minute, some guy leaned over and said, ‘Go to hell.’ I immediately thought, ‘This is going to be tougher than I thought.’ He was tolerated or hated at best.”
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