(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Not a lot is known of the green men, except that they’re not the first to sport full green bodysuits. As ESPN’s Toby Mergler discovered last October, green men have been popping up at sporting events since the TV show “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” first aired an episode based on a true events that played out for Rob McElhenney, the star and creator of the show, following a Philadelphia Eagles win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Force and Sully, journalism students at BCIT who do not want their true identities revealed, are huge fans of the show, so much so they set out to spread the green man tradition in the NFL.
“Essentially we were watching the show and we thought it would be hilarious if we went to a Seattle Seahawks dressed in green team colours, but things didn’t work out the way we had planned, so we went for the next best thing, a Canucks game,” said Force, the taller of the pair in the lighter suit, who recently gave Canucks.com an exclusive interview.
“There’s some green in the Vancouver uniforms so we thought we’d head down to the game and sit by the penalty box and it kind of just went from there. We never thought it was going to be as big as it is, but obviously it’s become pretty huge.”
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