As 2pac famously said “they say money don’t make the man, but damn I’ll make you money.” The man who played the Minnesota Vikings mascot had a very inflated sense of self worth/the value add of the mascot performance to Vikings game days. His stage name is Ragnar the Viking, his legal name Joe Juranitch.
Here’s a video below detailing his story:
So $20,000 per game, times eight Sundays equals $160,000 for just one day more than a week’s work. Now hypothetically, if you were to extrapolate this sum- there are 365 days in a year, so rounding up, an eight day period happens 46 times in a year. So if you were to extrapolate Juranitch’s game day payment plan into an annual salary, you get $7.3 million per year!
All that money just to be a Vikings mascot? As Dr. Dre would put it “hella swiss or mozzarella, pockets swella, getting money like a bank teller.” Why the Vikings throw around money like that.
What Mr. Burns told the Yale admissions people seeking his funding for an international airport….”Get out of here!!! I’m not made of airports!”
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