Ope, sorry. It’s a bye week, what do you want from me?
OK, calm down. Obviously Buckingham U. Badger does not suck. He is THE best mascot, ever, and not just because he and I share a birthday…I mean, he’s in the Mascot Hall of Fame.
Bucky is one of eight collegiate mascots to be inducted – Aubie the Tiger (Auburn), YoUDee (Delaware), Big Red (Western Kentucky), Smokey (Tennessee) and fellow Big Ten mascots – Lil’ Red (Nebraska), Brutus Buckeye (Ohio State) and Nittany Lion (Penn State).
Obviously, the other Big Ten mascot inductees are a joke, but we’ll get to them later this season…
Bucky first appeared in 1940, when Art Evans of Garden Grove, California drew him in his iconic cardinal and white sweater.