05-07-2022, 06:53 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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Harvey the Hound looked weird in the 80's
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05-07-2022, 06:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Taller than the current one and narrow face, sort of like the original Garfield in the late 70s.
Plus this Harvey had to skate.
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05-07-2022, 06:57 PM
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Scoring Winger
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“Let’s all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes”
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05-07-2022, 07:00 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Erie
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I like it!
It's like Grandpa Harvey.
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Last edited by minnow; 05-07-2022 at 07:09 PM.
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05-07-2022, 07:09 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jmac98
“Let’s all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes”
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Lo, watching the early Simpsons made me go out and get one
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05-07-2022, 07:29 PM
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All I can get
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Scorch will rise again.
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05-07-2022, 07:34 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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The way my sister in law tells it, some guy came into her mom's arts and crafts store in the 80's desperate for red fabric to finish up a mascot he was debuting to the Flames the next day. Her mom claims the long floppy tongue was her idea, though I'm guessing that might just be a touch of embellishment
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05-07-2022, 07:39 PM
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Closet Jedi
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That old video was in SD. What a difference HD makes.
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05-07-2022, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Cocaine papered over a lot of cracks in the 80s.
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05-07-2022, 08:49 PM
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Uncle Chester
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We all looked weird in the 80s.
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05-07-2022, 09:45 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by SportsJunky
We all looked weird in the 80s.
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Yeah I bet I looked weird under a microscope.
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05-08-2022, 02:39 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Smoking hole in the ground
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As I understand it, Harvey wasn't something planned, at least not by the team. I don't know if this is right, but I remember hearing that basically the guy who was Harvey showed up with an outfit and talked someone in the organization into giving it a shot, that it was completely driven by this random dude that decided the team needed a mascot. Again, not sure if this is correct, but same source said that he was the first NHL mascot.
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05-08-2022, 03:50 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp
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You’d look weird too if the Oilers coach tried to rip your tongue out! 
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05-08-2022, 02:13 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Madrox
As I understand it, Harvey wasn't something planned, at least not by the team. I don't know if this is right, but I remember hearing that basically the guy who was Harvey showed up with an outfit and talked someone in the organization into giving it a shot, that it was completely driven by this random dude that decided the team needed a mascot. Again, not sure if this is correct, but same source said that he was the first NHL mascot.
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Yeah, that's what I heard too.
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05-08-2022, 04:32 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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He may have looked weird, but the original Harvey was a phenomenal athlete. He WALKED on top of the glass, was as acrobatic as they come and had personality in spades. By comparison the current one is a bore, and has been for the past 20 years or so, since the original guy retired.
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05-08-2022, 05:09 PM
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Franchise Player
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The original creator and Harvey is a guy named Grant Kelba, this is from 2019:
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Grant Kelba was 23 years old. He had already spent four years dressing up as Ralph the Dog for the Calgary Stampeders when he was introduced to the Flames, who were moving into a new arena called the Saddledome.
They were thinking about creating a team mascot, and had reached out to the mascot consultant community to come up with something memorable.
"They put a bunch of proposals in front of me, about six to eight inches high, and they said, so how does yours differ?" Kelba said in an interview Wednesday with David Gray on the Calgary Eyeopener.
Kelba told them, "I tell you what. Let me build it and just show up. I'll take all the risk. I'll take all of the issues, and if it doesn't work, you can just let me go and you're not stuck with a $4,000 costume."
The costume he built was for a new character Kelba called Harvey the Hound.
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The article goes on to talk about how he received a cool welcome when he arrived, and how his nephew took over after Kelba turned 40.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5091940
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05-08-2022, 08:33 PM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Looks like Harvey's derpy cousin Hervay.
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05-08-2022, 09:23 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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his cousin is harvey now? that's cool! I wonder what they paid for the trademark?
I remember getting hugged by Harvey once and he smelled like potpourri lol
i love Harvey!
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05-08-2022, 09:50 PM
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All I can get
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Harvey the Hound had some sort of retail concept/kiosk at Chinook Centre. Briefly. For the life of me, I can't remember what it was all about, but it wasn't hockey related. This would've been before the Flames owned the Harvey character outright.
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05-08-2022, 10:06 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Harvey the Hound had some sort of retail concept/kiosk at Chinook Centre. Briefly. For the life of me, I can't remember what it was all about, but it wasn't hockey related. This would've been before the Flames owned the Harvey character outright.
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when was that?
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