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Drunk Lion Mascot Breaks Kayfabe, is Super, Super Drunk

A good way to celebrate your birthday: get roaring drunk and head out to a soccer game where you will be one team's mascot.

This is Super Leo the lion, the mascot for Austrian Bundesliga club Austria Vienna. Super Leo celebrated his birthday on Saturday at Löwenfest (Lion Festival) before his team's game against Wiener Neustadt and from the looks of it, he had a very good time. In this clip you can seem him stumble around without his lion head on—which, along with being shitfaced, is a huge no-no for mascots—and eventually fall over on the pitch. Those costumes are pretty hot so it's likely the heat, coupled with massive quantities of booze played a role in his loss of motor control.

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Security and other interested parties eventually helped him to his feet and escorted him away, but that's just the price you pay for a 42nd birthday so good you'll never remember it for the rest of your life. The whole scene toes the line between hilarious and depressing, but then you hear the Bruno Mars song playing in the background and it breaks your heart.

Austria Vienna won the match 2-1.

h/t Bob's Blitz