Herky The Hawk, Iowa’s mascot for the last 70 years, is a hawk, of some sort and proclaims on his Twitter that he is the “best mascot in the State of Iowa!”
Weird flex, bro...
Also, I don’t know if I would go that far...
OK, maybe he is...but still it’s a weird brag for your Twitter profile.
Origins
Before Herky, came Burch the bear. Burch was a live black bear that served as the school’s mascot from 1908-1910.
Burch traveled with the team to road games, wrestled with the players and roamed the sidelines.