The team all dressed like Guy Fieri, a restaurateur and TV host, known for the show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” They had spiky white hair, goatees and shirts ornamented with flames. The Guys Fieri team said they planned to “keep a medium heat,” so they wouldn’t burn themselves out during the race. During the race, 32 teams of six pallbearers competed for the best time in hefting a person inside a homemade coffin through the course. In the parking lot of youth organization Teens Inc., coffin racers talked strategy and prepared to tackle a challenging race course that wound through a muddy, snowy field, punctuated with steep hills. “Not only is this getting to celebrate our favorite grandpa again, it’s also realizing that we are coming out the other side and we’re still a community.” “A lot of people were very closed off for the past two years,” Ritt said. With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the festival in 20, Ritt said the town was happy to return to its tradition of celebrating Bredo, winter and Nederland. It was one of dozens of events that was raised from the dead for the revived festival, which kicked off Friday and runs through Sunday. As the crowd cheered the pallbearers on, the costumed characters prepared to go head-to-head in the coffin racing competition. They were Guy Fieri lookalikes Vikings a gorilla icy dead guys cereal boxes men in straw hats wearing Hawaiian shirts over bulging snow coats and astronauts.Īmong the thousands who gathered for the 19th Frozen Dead Guy Days, the oddities, coffin bearing or not, were birds of a feather. The pallbearers who hoisted them through Nederland’s streets Saturday were equally strange. The Banana Hammock team show off their coffin racer during the parade in downtown Nederland. They were painted white with golden ivy and pieced together using an IKEA cabinet crafted from cardboard wrapped around a wooden base and in the shape of a red convertible in the form of a banana or a pirate ship.
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