Watch Your Back, Otherwise the New Orleans Pelicans King Cake Baby Might Eat Your Soul
By Rob Perez
It’s the end of January, which means a couple of things:
- Mardi Gras Season rapidly approaching in New Orleans
- Mass consumption of the New Orleans-famous, diabetes-inducing King Cake
- The return of the revolting, horrifying, nightmare-haunting, soul-harvesting New Orleans Pelicans King Cake Baby mascot
The Pelicans may not be making a ton of noise on the court lately, but, they will forever have a stranglehold on the “creepiest NBA mascot” as long as this creature exists.
Speaking of stranglehold, the Pelicans official Twitter account posted this video of King Cake Baby trying to scare old people today at a local supermarket and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN FOR YOUR LIFE WOMAN
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? Someone is 100% going to have a heart attack and I’m not even remotely kidding.
The Pelicans obviously heard the voice of the public when we desperately pleaded they make their original Pelican mascot less terrifying:
So, hear us now, Pelicans marketing team: get rid of King Cake Baby before it’s too late.