How did the Suns get a Gorilla Mascot? 🤔

How did the Suns get a Gorilla Mascot? 🤔

Why in the world is the sun’s mascot a gorilla yeah I was generally confused when I first saw this but believe it or not the Suns mascot was actually an accident and eventually led to the grill becoming arguably the best maskot of all time in 1980 this random dude who worked

For Eastern onion which is a singing telegram service was hired for a job inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum so for this order the man by the name of Henry Roa showed up to a son’s game dressed in a gorilla costume people around the arena were slightly confused

By this and obviously this didn’t raise any red flags to the security because during the game the security actually encouraged that the gorilla did dances and celebrations under the basket during timeouts so that is exactly what he did and apparently the fans loved it roaz continued to come to Sun’s basketball

Games dressed as the gorilla for the rest of the season becoming known for his amazing dance moves and he became so popular that the Suns ended up offering him a full-time contract to join the team as their official team mascot roaz is no longer than mascot today as

Someone else took over but the gorilla is still the same vibe that we see in games now

How did the Suns get a Gorilla Mascot? 🤔