Austin, Texas. When you go to a Longhorn football game, you see a real bull named Bevo. And you want to be extremely careful of his horns, because he can gore you. At the football stadium, they have guns that go off when Texas scores. I have never been to Austin, so I watch from my office in Bismarck. I would like to take a picture of me and Bevo.
One of my biggest pet peeves with the ongoing pandemic is that teams cannot have mascots that you are familiar with. For example, if you see a big guy wielding a hammer and smiling, that’s how you would know you were in my home town in Indiana. But the NCAA is being stupid; what else is new? I guess when you are an animal, you are allowed to roam the sidelines without any fussing and complaining. But tell me how the Texas Longhorns are allowed to have Bevo and his handlers on the sidelines when the other mascots are nonexistent? You mean to tell me Sparty and Pete are not allowed and Bevo is? That incenses me! Get a life, Indianapolis. You just sit on your behinds and tell colleges what they can and can’t do. That’s absolute bull! Just like you did with Grand Forks when you took away the pomp and circumstance that made UND special. You can’t tell me that you would take away Pete or Bevo or Sparty, for goodness sakes. Make up your mind, it’s just a name that native Americans are proud of, and you want to tell them, sorry North Dakota, we’re not going to allow you to say, let’s go Sioux. This reporter is tired of you, NCAA. I suggest you get a spine and quit telling colleges what to do when the fans want to chant their name and support their home team, like the Nittany Lions do when they say we are Penn State. And you never have a problem with that, NCAA. Quit being stupid!
