The San Diego Chicken doesn’t appear to have aged a day since his grand hatching 40 years ago at San Diego Stadium.
“The beak is still the same and the fur is still the same color,” says Ted Giannoulas, the man inside the suit.
Indeed, the yellow head and legs, orange torso and blue hair on his head look now just as they did that June evening in 1979, when he emerged from a 10-foot egg that had been delivered to the stadium on top of a Brink’s truck while the theme music from “2001: A Space Odyssey” played over the sound system.