Real Salt Lake Cameo

When Kristie headed off to her baby shower, Jeremy and I headed up to a Real Salt Lake game with these:

How’d we get the all-access passes? Well, we got it in exchange for participating in a little halftime skit with Real’s mascot, Leo the Lion.

Here’s how it went down. At 10 minutes to halftime we left our complementary seats and headed down to the locker room of the stadium. There we met up with Leo, who gave us our props. To me, an old Leo suit, a dress, a bow and a purse. To Jeremy, a jersey of the opposing team (Philadelphia). In honor of Mother’s Day, I was to dress up as Leona (Leo’s mom), and get introduced at half field. So yeah, this is me:

There Leo would present me with flowers–which was Jeremy’s cue to jump out of the stands, run on the field and start acting like an obnoxious fan from the rival team (while the police chased him around). At that point I’d see Jeremy, run full-tilt at him, and deliver a crushing tackle (as any die-hard fan — and mascot-mom — would do) .

Then I was instructed to beat him with my purse till Leo caught up and dragged me off him.

The skit went according to plan and had some great play-by-play narration from the stadium announcer. I was told that the fans in attendance thought it was a riot.

Cross-dressing as a lioness was a bit weird for me (hold your jokes), but getting to lay a solid hit on Jer in front of the whole stadium was awesome.

Many thanks to Tyler at RealSoccerNation.com for the awesome photos, and Leo, who got us the best seats in the house.