Last Minute Ideas for Halloween Costumes

When it comes to Halloween, there are so many little vampires, werewolves and ghosts, ghouls and goblins, why not be a little different and make your own unique Halloween costume?

It just takes a little creativity or a perusal of some of my Halloween content to get some ideas, ya' know?

For a unique idea for a Halloween costume, how about an SEC football official? SEC officials were in the news recently in the Arkansas-Florida college football game for throwing bogus flags all over the field, benefitting the #1 ranked Florida Gators. Some college football fans call this phenoma "BCS penalties".

You see, in college football, the conferences employ their own officials. The SEC stands to gain much money and prestige by having a team in the national championship game and yet another in a second BCS bowl.

Thus, if the officials swallow their whistles when a highly ranked team commits penalties as the zebras did when Florida committed infractions or throws flags on the other team for no reason, they open themselves up to charges of impropriety. just another reason to favor a playoff in college football.

Anyway, just get a Florida #15 jersey or any orange and blue football jersey and wear it with football officials' pants and presto! You have a cheap Halloween costume that is topical and unique. You could add a few touches, also. If you have a german shepherd dog, you could don sunglases and have the canine act as the seeing eye dog for your SEC official.

If you don't have access to a dog, get some kind of cane which could pass for a blind man's cane. Or you could have monopoly money hanging out of the pockets. You could even do a combo of an SEC official and Pirates of the Caribbean with the official wearing an eyepatch, available at Walmart near the pharmacy.

For another unique Halloween costume, how about wearing a Florida #15 jersey and going as Tim Tebow? Of course, no Tim Tebow Halloween costume would be complete without a halo of some kind attached to his head.

You might have a pair of water shoes also, as Tim Tebow could walk on water according to adoring Gator fans and the national media. This year might be the last opportunity to do a Tim Tebow Halloween costume, 'cause no way Tebow plays quarterback in the NFL.

For NASCAR fans, or haters either for that matter, how about sticking a bunch of product emblems on a pair of coveralls and applying some reddish makeup to the back of the neck? It might be a little embarassing to wear a Viagra emblem on your outfit, but who knows, you might get a date out of it.

For another unique halloween costume, you could get a few Halloween decorated balloons and dress as a child and go as "balloon boy", the kid whose parents supposedly unwittingly let their son go up in a hot air balloon. a balloon boy halloween costume would be current, much moreso than a werewolf or vampire, don't you think?

There's always a fire hydrant outfit with a #7 on it for Michael Vick. Another NFL themed Halloween costume could be a giant milk carton with Terrell Owens' picture on the back as quiet as TO has been up in Buffalo. Just label it: Missing Child., TO has written a children's book, after all.

These are six ideas for unique and fun Halloween costumes for 2009. Have a safe and Happy Halloween!