In what was supposed to be a made-for-TV moment, a catastrophe almost ensued as Bevo and Uga were set for a photo op.
Before the Sugar Bowl, Texas mascot Bevo the longhorn steer breaks out of his enclosure and almost runs over Georgia mascot Uga. would face off, but that wasn't the real draw. It was the meeting between the teams' mascots -- Georgia's bulldog Uga and Texas' longhorn steer Bevo -- that ultimately captured the nation's attention.
What's the old Mel Brooks line? Tragedy is when I get a hangnail. Comedy is when you fall into a hole and die. Depending on which side you were on in this story, it could've been both.People who've been in the mascot business, we don't like to have problems with the mascots. But I can't say they lost control because my butt was headed in the other direction.The story of Uga and Bevo's meeting actually begins 140 years earlier.
Mules are funny animals. Certain things bother them and certain things don't. They can be standing next to the cannon when it goes off, and it's no problem. But if the wave starts behind them, and it's in their peripheral vision, that bothers them.We form a kind of circle around where it negates anybody from possibly walking behind him. That's our one big rule: Do not walk behind Peruna.
We were staged right behind Bevo in the parade the day before. We went to go talk to Rick and his guys, and we could see Bevo in the trailer, but his butt's facing out at me. In order to get a picture of Bevo without getting a butt shot, they had to pull him out backwards. It took him a while to do it, but Bevo was super chill. We took our dog over, and me, my wife and our son got a picture with Bevo and Rick and the owners, and it was no fuss, no muss.
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