Bedtime Bear

Bedtime Bear (real name Jeff Oberle), is a fursuiter and professional mascot performer who lives in Redmond, WA formely in St. Louis. Missouri, USA.

Biography
Bedtime got his start as a professional mascot through the Missouri River Otters of the former United Hockey League back in 2005 as a backup/community mascot and has not stopped performing since. He has done professional teams in both Missouri and Illinois across sports including baseball, hockey and football. His favorite being Hockey. As of 2016, he has performed in well over 3,000 professional events.

As a furry he joined the fandom officially in 2003 with his first convention being Anthrocon 2004 in which he got his first chance at wearing a big fuzzy costume when he performed with Rapid T Rabbit on stage doing "We Built This City" By Starship. He has been in the fandom actively since then and has recently started taking on more and more staffing roles at conventions to bring his experience and expertise in the mascot world to furry conventions.

Professional mascot

 * 2005 - 2006 Missouri River Otters (UHL) Primary Community Mascot/Backup for Home Games Oscar the Otter
 * 2006 Season Six Flags St. Louis, Costume Character/Entertainer/Bodyguard Various Characters
 * 2006 - 2007 Season St. Louis Bandits (NAHL), Volunteer Backup Mascot Smokey the Bandit
 * 2006 - 2007 Bloomington Prairie Thunder (UHL), Mascot Coordinator Chip the Buffalo
 * 2007 - 2010 River City Rascals (FL), Mascot Coordinator Rascal, Ruffy and Buffy
 * 2007 - 2010 St. Louis Children's Hospital, Volunteer Mascot Snerdlihc
 * 2007 - 2015 St. Louis Cardinals (MLB), Backup Fredbird
 * 2009 - 2014 Kelloggs, Various Characters
 * 2010 - present Energizer Co.
 * 2013 - 2014 St. Charles Chill (CHL)
 * 2014 - 2015 St. Louis Attack
 * 2014 - 2015 St. Louis Ambush

Career notes

 * Largest Crowd Entertained at a Sporting Event - 32,467
 * Number of Mascot Related Injuries - 0
 * Number of Media Interviews with Newspapers/Magazines/Commercials - 10
 * Number of New Characters Performed/Introduced - 3
 * Number of National Championships with Sports Franchises- 2

Fandom involvement
Bedtime has been involved in the furry fandom since 2004 and he made his mascot/furry debut as "Tenderheart Bear" of the Care Bears at Anthrocon 2004 performing in the Masquerade that year with Rapid T Rabbit doing some guitar to Starship's "We Built This City." Bedtime has also done Care Bear appearances with Rapid T. Rabbit in the Ocean City DooDah Parade.

Bedtime is also the Fursuit Lead for the new Gateway Fur Meet in St. Louis as well as a fursuit assistant on Staff for Mephit Fur Meet Bringing his professional experience as a mascot to furry cons in recent years.

Bedtime was also listed as "Fursuit Lead" for Waystation FurCon, a convention proposed for 2013 in Illinois, U.S.A. The Waystation FurCon website stated

After largely being an attendee the last couple of years, he has started to reach out and take on more responsibilities at conventions, including working with Security, Video Gaming, and Fursuit Tracks.

Fursuits

 * Tenderheart Bear 2004 - Present
 * Bedtime Bear 2011 - Present

Convention/event attendance

 * Anthrocon - 2004
 * Gateway Fur Meet - 2014, 2015
 * Mephit Fur Meet - 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
 * Midwest Furfest - 2011
 * Murdi Gras - 2005
 * Ocean City NJ DooDah Parade - 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
 * Rainfurrest - 2013, 2015