Benny the Bull Can and Will Shoot You
An otherwise forgettable season in the Windy City has provided a few key moments. The Skiles firing for instance; Tyrus Thomas’s distaste for authority figures; and now arguably the strangest NBA story to date: Benny the Bull, Chicago’s mascot, literally taking aim at opposing players.
Depending on who you ask, Benny fired his t-shirt gun on Tuesday night and two of the missiles shirts hit Kevin Garnett and James Posey. Posey then proceeded to act as though he’d just barely survived some kind of firefight.
“I felt threatened,” said Posey, who is considered a villain among Bulls fans for his tough fouls when he played for Miami, and was booed every time he touched the ball last night. “They already don’t like me here already.
“Two T-shirts were thrown at me and KG. I don’t feel safe. The T-shirts were fired out of that gun or whatever.”
KG’s reaction was, as you might expect, priceless: “We exchanged words,” said Garnett. Funny, I wasn’t aware that mascots could talk.
The Bulls, meanwhile, are denying the whole thing. Their claim is that a member of the spirit group the IncrediBulls tripped and accidentally fired off the t-shirt gun.
Benny the Bull, now officially the most gangsta of all mascots, had no comment.
42 Responses to “Benny the Bull Can and Will Shoot You”
Apr.3 at 3:08 pm
Dizzle says:
Didn’t Benny run into some legal troubles a few years ago?
Apr.3 at 3:10 pm
Jess says:
this is hilarious…wow…haha..James Posey saying he might need treatment, just a t-shirt. Gotta love KG.
Apr.3 at 3:10 pm
Eboy says:
No Youtube link?
Apr.3 at 3:18 pm
Moses Scurry says:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2004-01-20-notes_x.htm
Apr.3 at 3:22 pm
riggs says:
WE NEED U RYNE!
Apr.3 at 3:29 pm
Fredo says:
This is some epic stuff. Benny the Bull — the Omar of mascots.
Apr.3 at 3:32 pm
Captain America says:
Benny givin’ KG some bull?
Apr.3 at 3:37 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Kirk Hinrich would have missed them both.
Apr.3 at 3:45 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Also, Hillary Clinton spent three years dodging t-shirts on the tarmac in combat zones all over the world and you don’t hear HER complaining. You’d better never run for President, James Posey.
Apr.3 at 3:58 pm
Jukai says:
Stay away from the political humor and stick with the b-ball jokes, Russ.
Apr.3 at 4:05 pm
Bigi says:
Does he do drive-by’s too…?
Apr.3 at 4:08 pm
Ben Osborne says:
Mascots rule.
Apr.3 at 4:14 pm
riggs says:
michael lee is under the costume, watch out old face andre!
Apr.3 at 4:25 pm
Cheryl says:
hahahahahahaha, Russ
Apr.3 at 4:27 pm
the biggest shaq fan eva says:
i agree with jukai
Apr.3 at 4:39 pm
Kevin Wilson says:
Dizzy, I think it was Rocky in Denver who got arrested for some domestic stuff.
Apr.3 at 4:42 pm
Reggie Evans says:
First, Benny was on Springer and lost his girl, now this.
Apr.3 at 5:06 pm
speedy says:
Gun laws are way to soft in the USA .
Apr.3 at 5:37 pm
BETCATS says:
drive bys?
Apr.3 at 6:34 pm
JR says:
Wasnt Benny the Bull on a episode of Jerry Springer ? LOL !
Apr.3 at 6:42 pm
BigWalt206 says:
Barry (the guy inside) is by far the most gangsta mascot of all time! When I first started going to school @ U of M(ontana) saw him jump out of a plane and skydive into the football stadium as Monte the Grizzly. Pretty wild action on a saturday morning. Glad to see he now dabbles in retaliatory turf related gunplay…carrying on the fine tradition of Bulls mascots keeping gangsta ( http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2004-01-20-notes_x.htm ) Sidebar… gotta love the Qyntel Woods (btw what ever happened to him? Playing GTA with J.R?). arrest flashback in the link. By far my favorite NBA related police report.
Apr.3 at 7:17 pm
G Diesel says:
That second Russ comment was the greatest post of all time.
Apr.3 at 8:19 pm
Jukai says:
Damn, Reggie, I just saw that today when I was trying to youtube the Posey/Garnett/Benny fiasco. He got wrecked. No wonder he’s turning to gang violence.
Apr.3 at 8:30 pm
Jukai says:
Who do you think would win in a fight, Benny or Clutch?
Apr.3 at 8:36 pm
tealish says:
The best part of this is how Posey says he first thought his teammate tapped him. Then realizing it was Benny the Bull, “treatment” is needed.
Damn, basketball players can be really dumb.
Apr.3 at 10:39 pm
Justin Adler says:
Benny will put two holes in your jersey like robert parish.
Apr.3 at 10:52 pm
nastruthomas says:
idiots, again…this story broke on april fools days.
Apr.3 at 11:03 pm
tealish says:
Yes and we all know that everything on April 1st is a farce. Just like that C I got back on my term paper. Damn, prof had me good for a moment there but luckily it happened on the first of April and is automatically a joke!
Apr.3 at 11:18 pm
Dacre says:
TEALISH…you actually had an F coming didn’t you.
Apr.4 at 3:22 am
Clendon says:
Benny or Beanie Seagel?? Coincidence??
Apr.4 at 3:37 am
hursty says:
hahaha! thats all there is to say.
Apr.4 at 3:42 am
hursty says:
Clutch would win. hes real gangsta. ‘Sheed stlye. Benny is more like Ron Ron. haha
Apr.4 at 3:45 am
Joh says:
Benny on Jerry Springer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PE9gQwlQ0E LOL
Apr.4 at 4:10 am
andy says:
this game was broadcast in the UK (with those effin celtics homers) and i saw benny “having words” with KG! some youtuber really needs to get on the case
Apr.4 at 5:19 am
Tuomas says:
“They already don’t like me here already.”
- James Posey “Barney, don’t forget to bring back my car back tomorrow. Just slide it under the door…”
- Homer J. Simpson
Apr.4 at 5:23 am
Tuomas says:
Whoops, didn’t come out right. The similarities should still be striking though.
Apr.4 at 6:34 am
CoCo says:
In southern California people in red shoot at people in other colors all the time, it’s noooooothin. Baron Davis would dumped right back
Apr.4 at 8:12 am
hursty says:
what^? that makes no sense!! im so confused right now….
Apr.4 at 8:54 am
Mark Z says:
Uh, Posey was joking…
Apr.4 at 6:05 pm
jeremy says:
Benny the bull is gangsta
Apr.5 at 11:40 am
Ethan says:
Benny may be gangsta but what up with James Posey, I mean its a shirt,whats it gonna do hit you and fall to the ground its 90% cotton and 10% polyester–it aint killin nobody chief GO LAKERS
Apr.7 at 5:13 am
tagdi says:
i thought ben gordon was the bull?