UConn’s Pink Hat Kid running game experiences for New Orleans Saints, applying passion he showed in Gampel Pavilion student section (Mike Anthony)

[huskymedic]

-> Campbell was Pink Hat Kid, the TV camera-magnet heartbeat of the student section at men’s and women’s basketball home games. He stood out - front row, always - as a splash of color in a rolling sea of blue and white. He called himself a national phenomenon, and he was a highly visible representation of what it is to go to college and immerse yourself in camaraderie and entertainment. <-

-> “I’ll never forget, it was Martin Luther King weekend my junior year [2011], we played Villanova, Kemba hit that game winner,” Campbell said of UConn’s 61-59 victory. “It was 6 degrees outside. We slept out that Sunday night. Sounds gross, but my drool froze to my pillow. I have never been so cold in my life. But we just had a great time, a way to really bond.”

Campbell’s group had a solid core of about a dozen “Husky Hardcores.” They’d sleep, or try to sleep, at the North Entrance. “One game, we projected a movie onto a snowbank,” Campbell said. “We watched The Town. I had the movie on a laptop, somebody had access to a projector. In the middle of snowstorm a huge front loader came by and made a flat surface, like a 4-foot high snowbank. We were like, ‘Hey, there’s our screen!” <-

 

[XLCenterFan]

I remember this kid. Him and Dale (half blue/half white body paint) were stars.

 

[Rocktheworld]

No. Freaking. Way.

Knew this kid way too well from my time on campus 08-12 lmao bit of a but hey high energy people like that get into these roles; although New Orleans Saints Gameday Experience is not at all where I thought he’d land. Had no sense he was even trying to head in that general career direction.