More Football League Mascot Mild Amusement — Meet Southend United’s ‘Sammy the Shrimp’. Post Courtesy of the International Break

This shrimp just seems way too happy. Suspiciously like a person in a fuzzy shrimp suit on a serious LSD trip.

For some inexplicable reason, ‘Sammy’ lacks his own Wikipedia entry — so there’s not much information out there for me to steal, err, inform you, my dear readers with.

The resort of Southend is by the sea (hence it’s proper name Southend on Sea). Presumably that’s why a person in a shrimp suit is so appropriate to represent the club. As opposed to an elephant for example.

‘The Shrimpers’ are currently locked in a fierce battle to avoid relegation back down to League One — which begs the question, if they were to go down after their last home game, would ‘Sammy’ be prohibited from appearing due to his permanent smile? Seems a reasonable question to me.

That smile might be left over from Southend’s famous victory over Manchester United earlier this season. Either that, or the LSD.

You can witness ‘Sammy the Shrimp’ doing his fabulous pitch side moves down below…

Category: Mascots, The Championship

Tags: Mascots, Sammy the Shrimp, Southend United, The Championship

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