Philadelphia Phillies Fan Tries To Sneak Large Alligator Into Ballpark As ‘Emotional Support Animal’

Philadelphia Phillies have always been a bit, uh, different.

Usually, it’s all in good fun.

Sometimes devolves into idiot college kids winging weenies at one another on Hatfield Dollar Dog Night.

But one fan took things to the extreme on Thursday night, one night after the reigning National League champions clinched a spot in this year’s postseason.

Philadelphia radio host and noted blowhard Howard Eskin reported that a fan was denied entry to the game because he wanted to bring in his emotional support animal…which just happened to be an alligator.

But that’s just the start of where things get interesting. As it turns out, this wasn’t just any old emotional support alligator.

This was Wally the world famous alligator and his handler, alligator expert Joie Henney.

Steve Hartman of CBS News did a feature on Henney and Wally last year, and their relationship is genuinely heart warming (though, hopefully not for the cold-blooded amphibian).

Wally was initially found in a pond in Disney World. Henney agreed to take the gator in because it’s illegal in Florida to relocate alligators to another spot in the wild.

Today, the two live near Hershey, Pennsylvania and Wally lives on a diet of Cheetos and chicken legs (gator dudes rock).

“I’ve never met an alligator that will not bite you,” Henney told CBS News. “You fool around [with their head], their instinct is to grab you. He does not do it. You can reach in there and rub his tongue. He refuses to close his mouth. We don’t know why.”

Henney told CBS News that after losing some people close to him, he fell into a deep depression. Around the same time, Wally began to grow closer to him.

Now, does that seem like the type of gator you turn away at the gate?

Let the good scaly boi go enjoy some baseball.