This Scottish soccer mascot will haunt your dreams
When Scotland's Partick Thistle Football Club secured a new sponsorship, the team decided it was time to unveil a new and improved mascot:
Many fans, however, aren't sure the unibrowed yellow mascot is an improvement. The new mascot looks like "Lisa Simpson from the perspective of a person on strong drugs," one fan tweeted. "All hail the demented sun god!" added another.
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