![]() You’re all excited and running around - obviously when I’m not wearing the costume I act a little differently. When i have the costume on, I walk with a bit more of a swagger. GW: Yeah, so what’s that like, being a mascot at an NFL game? How does it feel down there on the field and in the stands?Īsdourian: Part of doing the job is you get to give that mascot a personality. It’s a pretty fun job.” “Blitz” at a recent Seahawks game. You end up really having a lot of fun with that. I enjoy bringing joy to a lot of other people and that’s what a mascot ends up doing. But I think that the Seahawks thing is, in a lot of ways - although technically a job - a lot of fun for me as well. You put in that perspective, and I think it seems a lot easier to figure out how it all balances out. I look at people who balance a job while raising a family, and I know that would take even more time than being a mascot takes. Right now, I just got married a year ago and don’t have any kids. GW: You balanced schoolwork and being a mascot at Florida, but taking a full-time gig at Microsoft is quite the time commitment on top of “Blitz.” How did/do you do it?Īsdourian: I look at it this way. Next thing you know, I was doing the mascot for the Seahawks in 2006. Then he asks me if I want to get a beer, and mentions that his roommate is the Mariner Moose - I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is perfect.” I’d love to help out if you ever need anything and just figured I’d reach out.” The guy responds and tells me he’s actually leaving the team. So I just emailed the Seahawks mascot at and said, “Hey, here’s who I am, I moved to Seattle and this is what I did in the past at Florida. At Florida, there were 90,000 people cheering like crazy and you’re on the 50-yard-line. It’s really an adrenaline pumping thing to be on the field for a game. GW: Once you came to Seattle, how the heck did you get the Seahawks gig?Īsdourian: I didn’t think the mascot was going to make a reappearance, but I was out here and I was like, “Man, the Seahawks look great and that would be fun.” I missed the adrenaline of being on the field. Blitz at an MS Walk event earlier this year. I ended up doing that for all four years before moving to Seattle for Microsoft after I graduated. ![]() How would you react? Then, we’d do a group interview - out of costume, of course. For example, it’d be like this: You’re at a basketball game and you accidentally knock over a little girl’s ice cream cone. ![]() When we did it, you did a prepared skit and then an improvised skit. ![]() GW: Hah! What exactly happens during a mascot tryout?Īsdourian: Tryouts change every year and it depends on how many people the program is looking to hire. So, he did, and the next thing you knew I was trying out. He asked me if I wanted him to put in a good word for me. Then, my roommate told me that the cheerleading squad and mascot program shared the same boss. One day we were watching a volleyball match and we were thinking how it would be so cool to actually be the mascot. Ryan Asdourian: During my first semester of my freshman year at the University of Florida, I had a random roommate who was on the cheerleading squad. How does one go about becoming a mascot? Ryan Asdourian. ® SEAHAWKS, SEAHAWKS LOGO, SPIRIT OF 12, WE ARE 12, BRING ON THE 12, LEGION OF BOOM, 12 and 12S are trademarks of the Seattle Seahawks.GeekWire: Let’s start from your early mascot days.
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