BOULDER — The University of Colorado has anointed its newest live Buffalo mascot – Ralphie VI – and she is set to make her debut this Friday night at the Buffaloes' season opener against Northern Colorado, Ralphie Program Manager Taylor Stratton announced Wednesday.
The newest Ralphie is a shade over 15 months old, as she was born on May 27, 2020 on a ranch in western Nebraska. An orphan rejected by her mother at birth, she was adopted and raised in part by a beef cow. She now tips the scales at just under 500 pounds; the previous quintet of buffalo mascots eventually weighed around 1,300 pounds, but it is hard to predict just how big VI will grow.