Monkey Business

I made mention of The Rally Monkey in my recent post on attending an Angels’ game; I thought this truly bizarre thing deserved a post of its own. The rally monkey is the Angels’ mascot. Unlike other teams’ mascot, this one does not appear as a person in a suit, but only on the video screen. The Rally Monkey is a tiny monkey in an Angels’ jersey who leaps up and down in a manic fashion as the words Rally Monkey flash on the screen. The Rally Monkey also appears inserted into movie clips or pop videos. The crowd then shouted “Rally”.

The Rally Monkey only appears when the Angels are tied or trailing by three runs or less in the seventh inning or later. A history of the monkey can be found on Wikipedia.

The pop video used at the game against the Red Sox, was Bohemian Rhapsody. During the part in which the band’s faces appear, they were replaced by that of the Monkey. The movie clip was the recent King Kong; at the point at which Kong’s NY rampage stops when he sees Ann Darrow emerge from the mist, but Ann was replaced by the manically moving monkey.