Often ignored and briefly banned, Peter Pacifica loved his alma mater even though it didn’t always love him back.
For nearly 50 years, the onetime high school outcast showed up at every football game at Pacifica High in Garden Grove as the unofficial mascot of a team that gave him a sense of belonging.
He left California a few years ago because of severe financial hardship, but a documentary posted Thursday night on YouTube could help provide some stability to the man whose real name is Gary Freeman.
A fundraiser associated with the movie had raised nearly $8,500 in two days for Freeman and his brothers, who have been living out of a van.