{"id":10478,"date":"2014-08-13T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:47:32","slug":"superfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=10478","title":{"rendered":"Superfriends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10479\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10479\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10479\" title=\"2014 Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament: Mascot Game\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame2.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament: Mascot Game\" width=\"526\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame2.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament: Mascot Game<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A funny thing happened at the Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament on Saturday: CNY-area mascots held a battle royal of sorts. Each team had a pep squad (Syracuse Silver Knights Cheerleaders and the Gus Macker Girls), and the game had the pageantry of a celebrity all-star contest, punctuated by the spirit of WWE and\u00a0SlamBall.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a title=\"Bob Antonacci Mascot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/08\/antonacci_takes_small-donor_fundraising_out_to_the_ballgame_with_big_head_bob_ma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bighead Bob (mascot for <\/a>Bob Antonacci) cheered from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10480\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10480\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10480\" title=\"Mascot Battle 2K14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame.jpg\" alt=\"Mascot Battle 2K14\" width=\"526\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mascot Battle 2K14<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t much basketball purity (unless you included the scoring prowess of the Syracuse Silver Knight, who played out of his costume and one point and should have received the MVP), but it was like watching a video game come to life.<\/p>\n<p>The fans seemed to love it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10481\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10481\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10481\" title=\"Shooting from way downtown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame3.jpg\" alt=\"Shooting from way downtown\" width=\"526\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame3.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/macker2014-mascotgame3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rotund Macker Man shooting from way downtown.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funny thing happened at the Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament on Saturday: CNY-area mascots held a battle royal of sorts. Each team had a pep squad (Syracuse Silver Knights Cheerleaders and the Gus Macker Girls), and the game had the pageantry of a celebrity all-star contest, punctuated by the spirit of WWE and\u00a0SlamBall. Even Bighead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[3463,160,3927,2219,3925,3928,5000,3926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23394,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions\/23394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}