Meet the new Ralphie: Latest Colorado mascot to make debut against Wyoming on Saturday

There’s a brand new Ralphie in Boulder, Colo.

The College of Colorado mascot, Ralphie VII, will make her debut on Saturday evening with an preliminary run earlier than Deion Sanders and Colorado face Wyoming. The 1-year-old American Bison weighs 700 kilos and hails from a ranch owned by a household of Colorado alumni exterior of Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Ralphie VI, generally known as Ember, retired final month after 4 seasons attributable to “an indifference to working,” which had spawned some complaints from Colorado followers. She moved again to a ranch to stay with Ralphie V.

Ralphie VII, who’s “undoubtedly not detached to working,” per Colorado, will now take the reins because the Buffaloes’ stay mascot. Earlier than video games, Ralphie sprints to midfield and loops again into her trailer, adopted by 5 trainers who information her across the discipline, reaching speeds of as much as 25 miles per hour. This system to be Ralphie’s coach is very aggressive.

“Ralphie’s run is iconic and our followers, college students, school, workers, and alumni take an unimaginable quantity of satisfaction on this custom which transcends sports activities,” stated Taylor Stratton, Director of the Ralphie Stay Mascot Program, in a press release Friday. “We’re excited to be including a brand new Ralphie to the lineage of unimaginable buffalo which have represented the College of Colorado and have elevated the followers’ ardour for our student-athletes.”

The custom started in 1967 and has grown into one of the vital iconic entrances in faculty soccer. All of the earlier Ralphie mascots have been feminine as a result of the bison are considerably smaller than their male counterparts and should not as sturdy.

(Picture: Timothy Hurst / Fort Collins Coloradoan by way of Imagn)