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Brave man went on a harrowing quest to become a Bloomin' Onion mascot

A little persistence can get you in a fried onion costume

Jordan Bowman

on December 6, 2017

Some people are just content to live. But some won't others until they can wear a giant fried food costume at a football game.

Every year on Jan. 1 Outback Steakhouse sponsors the Outback Bowl, a big college football game that also features a bizarre fried mascot: a Bloomin' Onion, just like the one you can find on the steakhouse's menu.

Ryan Nanni, a contributor for SB Nation, announced at the beginning of this year that he was on a quest to don the fried onion costume for the big game. To underline this, his Twitter bio reads, “My only professional goal for 2017: to serve as the Blooming Onion at the next Outback Bowl.”

Ryan Nanni wasn’t kidding, earlier this year on Jan. 3 he tweeted the Outback Bowl account asking how to get the mascot job. And then he just kept doing it.

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Yesterday, seeing that the game was less than a month away, he made an actual plea for the position announcing that he was going for a Hail Mary attempt at the mascot position.