Mascot Helps Minor Olympic Sports Bore Fans And Scare Kids To Tears

MINOR SPORT BORE NOW SUCCEEDS IN SCARING KIDS TOO! SoCal’s AAU Sportsletter introduces us to my new favorite another-European-sport-which-doesn’t-translate-here mascot: “Meet Chabala, the official mascot of the 2007 Women’s World Team Handball Championship, to be held in France, December 2 – 16.

Chabala Women's Handball Mascot


What’s a more frightening prospect, a plaster-based feline caricature with a head the size of George Wendt scaring children witless inside outdated pan-European multipurpose glorified middle school gymanasiums arenas - or actually attempting to endure the women’s handball matches themselves?

Chabala Women's Handball Mascot


On the bright side, the word “Chabala” may inspire the more adventurous bakers among us to somehow invent the technology to combine two of my favor starch-based foods: Challah and Ciabatta breads:

Challah Ciabatta Chabala Handball Mascot