It seems like Santa’s Reindeer only get credit for their tireless work once a year, when we break out the old, dusty box of Christmas decorations, pour ourselves a bit too much of Uncle Ernie’s famous backwoods eggnog, and sing songs to the little kid in all of us. Rudolph gets lauded for his shiny red nose and the rest of the squad? They’re treated worse than television set extras at an overnight shoot in the rain. That doesn’t seem fair, especially since it takes the whole group to help Santa complete his logic-defying feat of delivering presents to all the good boys and girls across the world in a single night. If you were in the same position, which of Santa’s Reindeer would you be? Are you dashing, or daring, or loving, or caring, or maybe you’re the greatest Reindeer of them all? Let’s find out.
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Did you know?
There was a tenth reindeer!
We all know Santa's original eight reindeer that were first introduced in a poem titled"A Visit from Saint Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore in 1823. In 1939, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, made his debut in the Montgomery Ward Christmas coloring book, given out free to kids. What began as a holiday marketing ploy turned into a much-beloved children's character. Oddly enough, the unknown tenth reindeer never achieved the public success of his predecessors. This is probably due to his unfortunate name — Bruno, the Brown-Nosed Reindeer. He could run just as fast as the other reindeer, but he had trouble stopping in time. Regardless of how endearing his differences might have been, Bruno never got his own Christmas special. There are no songs to tell his tale of woe, and he is the one reindeer everyone seemed happy to forget. So, the next time you watch poor Rudolph being excluded from the reindeer games, remember that at least he got noticed.
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