Bill XXXIII (33), the Naval Academy goat mascot affectionately known as “Blue Eyes” and who played a central role in an Army-Navy prank gone too far nine years ago, has died, the Naval Academy announced Thursday. He would have been 14 years old next week.
The fuzzy Angora goat was the team mascot from 2008 to 2015 and stood out among his brethren for not only his startling, unusual eyes, but his horns, which stretched longer than any goat in his herd.
In 2012, the Animal Welfare League of Arlington rescued Bill 33 from a median on Army Navy Drive, just outside the Pentagon, after he was abducted from his home at Maryland Sunrise Farm in Gambrills.