The Saints began searching for a mascot almost immediately after New ... would stick with a St. Bernard — this time a human in a costume. The team went with James “Skeet” Hanks, who had ...

The New Orleans Saints' mascot is a Saint Bernard ... The current Gumbo is not a real dog. He is a costume that is wօrn by a persօn. The person who portrays Gumbo is not publicly known, and ...

But mostly, the New Orleans Saints mascots of the past half-century ... "When somebody asks me to pose for a picture, I may be inside the costume, but I'm smiling, too." Or as Larry Dale ...

Maybe Tom Benson was being kind to Gumbo IV." By 1998, the Saints had replaced the dog with a human inside a mascot costume. We head to the lakefront this week to continue our look at local ...

Simply because they love being Gumbo and Sir Saint, the Saints’ costumed mascots who make their regular ... “When I put that costume on, I feel like I’m a superhero.” ...