This is one of the wildest roles in college football.
Imagine your job is to run 120 yards across a field with an animal that can kill you in front of fifty thousand screaming people once per week.
I’m talking about the Ralphie Handlers: the folks who handle Colorado’s live bison mascot.
I’m going to run through three insane stories about this Boulder tradition including one when she got loose.
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First — The current Ralphie, Ralphie six, was partly raised by a beef cow after it was orphaned.
Second story isn’t a story — It’s a fact.
Ralphie isn’t a buffalo.
She’s an American Bison.
Buffalo don’t exist in North America. We only have bison.
Last story, Ralphie V did get loose at a spring game in 2008.
She slipped out of her harness, and ran some dude over, but miraculously, he’s not serious...