My daughter and her friends have been working on this documentary/mockumentary for more than three years. The Nads are RISD’s ice hockey team. Her roommate, Caleb, is a member. Also, her good friend Gary is a key member of the team. I also know the mascot, Scrotie, who stayed with us for Thanksgiving last year.
Finally, they are ready for the unveiling of this long-awaited movie!
All are invited!
The screening will be held at the Narragansett Brewery.
271 Tockwotton St
Providence, RI 02903
We hope to see you there!
p.s. More on the Nads from Geeks Who Drink:
“The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) isn’t short on famous alums: the prestigious art school’s graduates include glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, street artist Shepard ‘I did those Obama HOPE posters’ Fairey, and every original member of the Talking Heads.
What it doesn’t have is a super-strong athletics program, which is why its sports teams seem to exist just so its students can make dick jokes. The hockey team is nicknamed ‘The Nads’ – yup, everybody’s required to giggle while they yell “GO NADS!” — the basketball team is ‘The Balls,” the fencers are ‘The Pricks”; and the sailing squad is “The Seamen.” You get it, right? Dick jokes!
Nothing really underscores RISD’s commitment to the bit like the hockey team’s unofficial mascot, a giant anthropomorphic penis and testicles called “Scrotie.” Although the first Nads hockey team was put together in 1961, they didn’t have any kind of mascot until 30 years later, when a group of students decided that a giant peen would be perfect. (According to MEL Magazine, one of Scrotie’s creators was Nads captain Brian Chesky, who co-founded and is the current CEO of Airbnb.)
“When Scrotie was created, the ‘Nads’ name had already been tried and true, and we decided we wanted to build a mascot,” RISD alum and Scrotie design team member Paul Osimo told MEL. “A pal of mine […] was a puppet guy. I said, ‘That’s the guy who needs to build this stupid thing.’ So he got commissioned [by us] and built this huge goddamn dick. It was incredible.”
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