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DEL.ICIO.USTake 10: Suggestions for Friday Night Football Halloween Costumes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Halloween is a special time for the crew of Take 10. You could say it’s our favorite holiday. It all began with our first costume back in 1986: He-Man. Sadly, we had neither the muscle tone nor the flowing blonde hair. We looked more like some sort of half-naked Hobbit with a plastic sword.
Then there was a run of consecutive Dracula years, Batman made an appearance, Jim Carrey’s The Mask and the ill-timed Pee-Wee Herman costume of 1991. We’d be willing to put our catalogue of work up against anyone else’s childhood. It’s strong, diverse, and we never once mailed it in with a ghost/sheet with two eye holes.
So we consider ourselves experts on the subject. Since this Friday happens to be All Hallows Eve, we thought it would be helpful to give our loyal readers suggestions for costumes that keep the spirit of Friday Night Football. But READER BEWARE! These suggestions are not for the faint of heart or those that would be easily embarrassed walking around looking like Mrs. Butterworth.
Photos: Check out these 10 frighteningly funny costume themes.
Here are 10 suggestions for looking spooky, funny or just full of … spirit on Friday night:
10: Be a Gainesville Red Elephant - We’re not sure which would be scarier right now: Pretending to look like the Republican mascot or dressing up like a pachyderm covered in blood. You have to wonder why that is that elephant red? Gainesville is undefeated, so it’s probably covered in the remains of Chestatee, North Hall and West Hall - all teams GHS blanked this season. We recommend some duct tape, tomato sauce and a dryer ventilation hose for a nose. If you don’t think an elephant can be scary, then read this. We grew up near a town that actually hung an elephant for a bloody rampage back in 1916. Yes, we’re serious.
9: Be a Southside (Atlanta)/Jackson Laser - This is a fantastic mascot that is just ripe for something out of a Kanye West concert. We’re imaging several possibilities. You could always construct something literal with cardboard, looking similar to Megatron in Transformers. If that’s too much, we’d like to see working Christmas lights wrapped around the torso and shoulders, but that may not be practical. If you can’t work out how to power the lights, just stick glowsticks all over your body. A student section with that illumination would be great bobbing up and down.
Editor’s note: Jackson’s changed its mascot to the Jaguars but we liked the Megatron reference.
8: Be a Clarkston Angora - An “angora” is actually a nickname for a goat. That’s a nickname as a nickname. Apparently, Clarkston used to be known as “Goatsville,” which is much better than “Chickenville” and “Pigville” in our book. Sure, this might not be intimidating, but you’d look pretty awesome dressed like this.
7: Be a Dunwoody Ryan Seacrest - This is actually for Druid Hills, which plays the undefeated Wildcats Friday. Looking for an upset win? Try reminding Dunwoody of its famous alum by mocking him relentlessly. Seacrest graduated from DHS in 1993 where he hosted morning announcements (naturally), was a reporter for the school paper and was captain of the school swim team. This costume demands a gallon of moose/hairsoray, designer t-shirt and jeans and a gigantic microphone to emphasize RyRy’s small stature.
6: Be a Warren County Screaming Devil - This one is almost too easy. We’re throwing it in because there’s always that guy at Halloween who grabs the first thing off the rack. Sadly, that will probably be us this year. Take Ten has sported a Frankenberry costume for two years running, and it’s time for change. The Screaming Devil mascot itself very unique, so why not take advantage of the holiday with a student section full of crazed, horned monsters against Washington-Wilkes.
5: Be a Johnson (Savannah) Atomsmasher - A lot of possibilities to work with here. The school opened in 1960 and had ties to Savannah State University. The particle accelerator had just been invented, so the school went science first. We were thinking of something that looked like that hammer that always wins the tool races at Braves games. But that wouldn’t be easy. The cheap approach could work: hula hoop plus Styrofoam balls.
4: Be a Buford/ECI Streak - We at Take Ten are not endorsing public nudity. But tan body suits can be used creatively. The Wolves and Bulldogs share Georgia’s longest active winning streak at 23 games-in-a-row with Lowndes, who has won 22 and running, a close second.
3: Be a Valdosta Buck Belue - The Wildcats need a reason to remember the good ol’ days, especially with tough trip to Tift County on Friday. Belue gives you options, and we wanted to have a former great player on the list. Belue started all four years at Valdosta, lettered in baseball and football at Georgia and now co-hosts are drive-time radio show in town. So you’ve got the possibility of wearing an old Wildcats uniform, some sort of Georgia football/baseball hybrid or carrying around a mic. If no one gets it, just pretend you’re handing the ball off to Herschel Walker all game. That might help.
2: Be a Glynn Academy Red Terror - The name itself leaves any costume design open to interpretation, but the name just screams Halloween. Anything could work: Red Power Ranger, Red Carebear, Clifford the Big Red Dog or even Little Red Riding Hood. Just slap some fake blood on there and you’ll fit in. The school’s mascot - easily one of the best we’ve seen - is in reference to the uniforms of Scottish Highlanders who defended the coast from the Spanish.
1: Be a Cairo Syrupmaker (Syrupmaid) - Just imagine it: A sea of fans dressed like Mrs. Butterworth’s greeting Crisp County on Friday night. We think that spells ‘W’ for Cairo which chose this mascot because the town was a major player in the cane syrup market with companies like Roddenbery’s back in the 1900s. ESPN actually chose the school as the No. 1 nickname for a high school sports team in 1986. Let’s go ahead and give them best costume as well.
Go on. Take Ten. What’s a Halloween costume that would be appropriate for your school on Friday? How one would go about making a Mrs. Butterworth’s costume? Does your school have an alumnus worse than Ryan Seacrest? Here’s your challenge. Let us know. Happy Halloween, everybody.
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By HeadEast
October 29, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Raider fans are begging for the hornet to appear dressed as his beloved cannon!!!!
By HPhil
October 29, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
I don’ get the Crisp County Ms. Butterworth idea. Isn’t their mascot a Cougar?
By HPhil
October 29, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
I don’ get the Crisp County Ms. Butterworth idea. Isn’t their mascot a Cougar?
By HPhil
October 29, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
How bout Harrison Hoya’s (Hoya means rock or stone wall in greek) coming as stone walls, sitting in Northcut Stadium stands? It may look like no one came.
By Harry
October 29, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Great ideas for Friday night! Sweaty smelly fur costumes are always a crowd pleaser!
By shazam
October 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
Haha. I love it!! Take a break from the trash talking
By HPhil
October 29, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Sweaty smelly fur costumes are always a crowd pleaser!
Only on a cold night.
By Slinger
October 29, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
What happened to dressing like a can of Folger’s and showing up in Douglas Friday night?
Coffee, anyone?
By SouthGARules
October 29, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this
HPhil: Yes, Crisp County’s mascot is a cougar. The Mrs. Butterworth reference is for the Cairo High Syrupmaker/Syrupmaids to show up dressed as Mrs. Butterworth. However, you might think you stumbled into a Geico commercial.
By HPhil
October 29, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
I guess I never heard of Cairo High, I thought he was poking fun at Crisp Co.
By Trojandude
October 29, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
No Trojan would touch this one with a ten foot pole.
See, can’t even avoid it safely.
By roger
October 29, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this
what a dumb high school football blog! please, can’t find something a little better to blog about?
By doug
October 30, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
How about Savannah High masquerading as a football team at Camden?
By ronald
November 6, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Can someone tell me how good the running back from MLK is? Mack Brown.. And how much national attention is he recieving?