1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Hour 2: Put some respect on Lil' Red's name! - 7/27/2024

Episode Date: July 28, 2024

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Koppel Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Down, way down the rabbit hole. Buckle up. We're putting respect on Little Red.

Listen, listen. So I'm still trying to figure out that, Again, you can text in. 402, 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6. As always. Right? And be a part of it, you can follow on the live video, streams, Facebook, YouTube, X, Allo, Channel 961. You can get mad at me about my little red love.

No, they can't be mad at you about your little red love, but you can text in about that, but we're going to change your perception of little red. I'm also, I need, I now need a little red hat. Like, I think, like, do they exist? They should. I'm pretty sure they do. Can you check and see if Little Red has, and I don't want like a silk screen hat, I want a full on stitched joint.

Well, okay. Right. I would assume that there are Herbie hats. There's a little red shirt. It's a shirt, but it's not. I'm trying to find a hat. I'm going full all in with Little Red. I'm with you, man.

I'm with you. Right. Like I'm, and again, we need to do it appropriately. He shall forward. We will, we will issue the, the proclamation. All right. That throughout all of Husker Nation, he is forwardly known forever and eternally as

Hall of Famer, Lorette. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That is the only way to address him appropriately and to give him due respect. He, from this day forward, on this day, July 26,

is it 26? The day's 26? Today's 27th. 27th? Is it really? Today's the 27th. It is not! What is this on my computer? Ben! Please tell me I'm, you're wrong. It's the 27th. Today's the 27? Yeah.

That, come on. Really? Today's the 27. Yesterday was the 26th. Here's. Today is the 27. Here's why this can't be so. So I see a hat with Herbie on it. Here's why this can't be so.

Why? That means tomorrow is July 28th. Yes. July 28th is my birthday. Ooh. And I'm not prepared. You're not prepared. I'm not prepared.

I think, guys, this is what we need to do for DPs. We need to get D.P. I am not prepared. We need low red, merchandise for D.P. That's what we need to get D.P. I am not prepared. What do you need to prepare for?

Ben, see, here's the beauty of youth is that birthdays are like popcorn. You just think they exist everywhere and they're good and nutritional. But as you age, each birthday has greater value because there's fewer of them for me than there are for you.

My next birthday is because I have some pretty good value when I turn 21. When you turn 21. Yeah. Right? Right. And it's a big deal because you've had, you've had 21 birthdays. You've had 20 birthdays.

The next one is 21. But your life changes in the next one because it begins. A new. You now will be, in your birthday, you will be able to do things that you've never done before. Yep. For my birthdays, usually it means there are fewer things I can do. He's like one year closer to the end. Hey, man.

I mean, it's technically right for all. us one year close to the end. Well, it really is. Like, I'm never going to be older than I am right now. Right now. Same with me. And I'm never going to be younger. You want to know who doesn't age?

Low Red. Little Red is eternal. He's in, he's eternal. Hall of Famer Low Red. We cannot speak. We will not speak less of the legendary mascot. The Hall of Famer Little Red. I need a lower red hat.

Why do I see Herbie hats, but not Little Red hats? What is up with this? I'm all in. And now, like, I need a little red hoodie. I need a little red hoodie. And then we need to have the discussion over, let me see. So it says years ago, Texas says, from the text on it, years ago at Nebraska's license plate, it had beef state stamped on it. Beef state.

It's a beef state. Nebraska really is a beef state. Okay. So, Ben, as you scan the world for little red hats. And then Little Red Hoodies, because that has to happen. Oh, 100% Hall of Fame. And if there's not. And there's not.

We're going to call our print, our merch friends around Lincoln, Triple B, Perch, or whoever it is, that there needs to be Little Red hoodies. Hats and hoodies. I would buy it. Hats and hoodies. Like, it has a shirt too. I want a shirt. But it has to say.

I saw a shirt. I saw a shirt. red shirt. But it has to say Beef State. Hall of Famer. Hall of Fame. Look, we're also going to push Beef State. Like, we're like, oh, come on. Why did that, why does he have to have a corn cob in his pocket? He should be,

he should be riding a cow. He should be writing, you know what? You know, Texas. That would be. He should be writing Bivo. Like, he should be writing Bivo. Like, 100%. I'm all in. I'm all in. for this.

This is not, and in true transparency, this is not at all what was planned, but this is the way we're going. We shouldn't even plan for shows. We should just go as it is. Well, listen, this is why,

so we had some shows today that, that canceled and some shows that couldn't, couldn't show. And I said, well, this has been an industry week. I've been at Big Ten.

I've been out of studio all week. And sometimes when you're traveling for events like that, you lose connection to home. Like you lose connection to what's going on. and watching downtown Lincoln, especially at the corner of 11, though, we're seeing recruits walk by the window. We're seeing, we know that coaches are active.

We know that there's, especially last night, we actually stayed open late and had coffee because people who were going to the recruiting exhibition, right? Stop by. And so we had, we had Luke leave out coffee for coaches and we had some Husker folks stop by and have coffee. That's cool. And so you lose connection. Then you go, oh, wait a minute. This is the week where Nebraska changes. Lincoln changes this week because the Huskers go to practice.

They go to camp on Wednesday. It all changes. It all changes. And I thought about it, like Monday, Monday, we're going to be at Buffalo Wings and Rings all day. Yeah, what is it? 10 to 6. 10 to 6 will be there.

So you'll be able to stop by. And so because I. haven't thought about it properly. Again, finding out that, like, if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't know that my birthday's tomorrow. Like, I literally, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I just, huh? What day did you think it was?

I don't know. Like, I thought maybe, like, Tuesday. I don't know. I don't know. But I didn't think it was tomorrow. So tomorrow or tonight at midnight, I'll be, you know, know how old I am, do you? I don't want to guess.

You can't offend me. Okay. You cannot offend me. Just honestly, legitimate, how old do you think I am? Right? Late 50s, early 60s. So at midnight, I'll be 62. Okay.

So I was right. Right. I was in the ballpark. And so you've become, and I realize I'm the old guy at the station now. I'm the young guy. I know that. You're the young guy. I'm the old guy.

And a big part of doing these shows is a crossing of streams Is just to make sure that one, I understand how young people today are thinking This is what the college athlete shows do for me Is that they remind me of what it's like to be young Right? What it's like to be young. Like we have athletes coming here and just tell you, You're just like, well, how do you not know that?

But it also changes my week in that in my head At some point this week I would have celebrated this now I kind of have to celebrate it Buffalo Wings and Rings on Monday. That's not a bad place to celebrate it. So that's kind of going to be what that is. So here are the things, the projects we need to create.

And Ben, I'll leave it to you to get to Bella and Anaya. Yeah. Because we need Little Red, Hall of Famer, Lorette. Right? He's Hall of Famer.

Right. Hall of Fame. That needs to be. branded marketed. Why is Nebraska not marketing it? I don't know. Ben, you know me well enough to know that I ask questions and sometimes I wonder why things are done or not done the way they are.

And this is one of those. That Hall of Fame, Little Red has to trend. Like immediately from this, again, we'll issue a formal proclamation. So we need one of those certificates. I'm going to reach out to the university and invite Little Red down to. to the mill at 11th and 0. And we will... You want lower red in the mill?

Oh, I won 100%. Because I want to do and have the mayor make an official proclamation that it's national, it's Little Red Day, Hall of Famer Little Red Day in Nebraska. And we can pick the day. I wonder how many big 10 mascots are in the Hall of Fame. This is like, this is why I wanted to see if you knew that, The mascot, who the mascot, what the name of the mascot, and then who the mascot was.

Because the Huskers is the mascot. Herbie Husker. But Herbie, no, they're the Huskers. Yeah. So the USC Trojans. But the Trojan has a name. Just like Herbie has a name. Little Red, Hall of Famer.

And it's, here's the other thing. It needs to be marketed and branded that Herbie is a Hall of Famer. True. Yeah. Hall of Famer Herbie Husker. Yeah. They both have won three national championships. So,

so I need, I need the shirts and hats. I need a little red hall, a hall of famer, a little red hoodie. Yeah. That I'm just going to wear. I only saw a shirt when I was throwing for a few minutes.

I'm going to wear it at every, literally when I go media to anything Husker, I'm wearing the Husker, like, Hall of Famer Little Red hoodie. This is funny because I went at the D.N. At the D.N, they don't want us wearing like red or Nebraska stuff because they don't want us to be like affiliated with the school, whatever. But D.P. is like, I'm wearing little.

I don't even care. Listen. Ben, let me explain it. I'm a member of that club where they tell you, be neutral as media. Be neutral. So I generally were black to Husker events. Yeah, I don't usually wear red. Right.

Or just like I went and like the Adidas black. Yeah. Unless I'm in the student section. There's dress, there's dress slacks that are Adidas men's dress, like the kind of the golfer kind of version. And then there are pullovers that are Adidas in the various colors without the logo. And I think, like that's what I wear. So I wear, like today I have on the husk.

I have on the Adidas hat without the logo. I have a top to match. So if I want to wear black slacks with it, I can do that and go to events. but I'm telling you the moment I get my hands on a Hall of Fame Little Red hoodie it's the joint man Bill Bill texted saying Nebraska bookstore used to sell Lower Red and Herbie Bobbleheads you could put that on your desk

Oh what a Bobbo Head But I need Hall of Famer Herbie Hesker and Hall of Famer Little Red Bobbleheads Yeah so again I wonder how many Big Ten mascots have won I'm giving Hall of Fame.

I'm giving Nebraska million dollar ideas. Right? Because the proclamation of their being Hall of Fame mascot day, right,

for Lil Red and Herbie Husker. And that could be two separate days. And then, listen, how long of a line would you wait in if at a Husker home football game they were going to give out

to the first, thousand students, a Hall of Fame, Little Red bobblehead. The student section would be all over. I'm telling you, the youth likes, the youth likes lower red better than Herbie. So I go to the college, I can tell you if I would conduct a poll,

more people would like Ler Red at the UNL. We're going to do all of this. Then Herbie. We're going to do all of this. And then imagine, imagine that at the first Husker home basketball game, that we create the Hall of Fame Little Red fan club

Does Little Red have a fan club? Probably not Like, okay, so this is a thing I need to know, right? Okay, I'm looking at the Mascot Hall of Fame. Yep. I'm just, I'm just looking.

I see, I'm trying to see which ones. I don't want to go to each individual one to see which one are Hall of Famers. I know, like, I'm pretty, when I looked up, Ohio States. I don't think I saw that he was in the Hall of Fame.

I didn't see it. Ohio State. Okay, so pull up the... He does not have a... He does not have a fan club. Okay, this has to, Ben. Little Red doesn't have a fan club. Are you willing to be president of the Little Red fan club?

I would be honored. Right? To be president. The Hall of Fame, Little Red fan club. I would be honored. Right? Yes. So, Ben, I'm going to task you with that.

To actually create a social media page. For the Hall of Famer. He has a Twitter page. Lower Red does. Okay, but again, this is why we do this. This is going to be a fan account. Right, but also, here's the problem. Here's the problem.

We looked and Little Red. Now, the whole story has been that Nebraska does social media bigger and better than any other program, right? That if somebody's being recruited, Nebraska fans rally, on social media to that recruit better than anybody. Except, except, we looked on that Lorette only has 1,500 followers. Yeah.

That is disrespectful. It's disrespectful. Husker Nation, if you don't immediately go and find L'O Red on social media and follow that Hall of Famer, the Hall of Famer. Why is it not on his Twitter bio that he's a Hall of Famer? That should be the picture. Like that should be the picture It should be in his Twitter box

Hall of Fame right Like 100% Hall of Famer Right I think is And Herbie Husker only has 3,000 Yeah that's not that many What are y'all doing?

What are we even doing? Okay I'm looking Yeah I don't think I don't think these mascots Are in the Hall of Fame I don't Mascot Hall of Fame

The college football College Mascot Hall of Fame? Is that what we're... That's what I'm trying... That's what I'm trying to find. Okay. So...

Okay. So I have this year's Hall of Fame nominees, the mascot nominees. Ready for this? Okay. This is so baller. This is so baller. The voting has ended,

but here's who was up. Big Al. Big Al. Big Al! is the name of the mascot. You ready for this? Who? The University of Alabama.

Big, oh yeah, I think I did. Oh, yeah. Big Al is, I had no idea. I'm going to do trivia all of next week, just on the mascot names, who was also up for it. Blitz. Blitz was nominated of the,

Seattle Seahawks. Okay. Bernie. Bernie. Of the Miami Heat. Yeah, I knew Bernie. Bernie. He's a great, he's a great mascot.

If I would, okay, I like Lorette better than Bernie for, and I'm a heat fan. Ler Red is better than Bernie. And Bernie's great. This may be the best, this may be the best mascot nickname ever. What is it? Throw it at me. Jackson DeVille. Jackson DeVille.

Jackson, J-A-X-S-O-W-I. Jackson-D-Ville of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Come on with it. Ready for this? Lou Seal. Lucille. Lucille. Lucille is the mascot of the San Francisco Giants.

What? Remember the conversation we had that Their old name was the San Francisco SEAL. Oh, okay. They haven't updated the mascots? Lou, L-O-U, and his last name, Seal, S-E-A-L of the San Francisco Giants. Spectacular.

Shut up and give me my, listen, I am all, I would be so all in. That is fantastic. Like, I just have to say that is utterly fantastic. That's remarkable. Um, yeah, I'm not surprised Sparty for Michigan States in the Hall fame. He's a good mascot too. Right.

Michigan State's mascot, he's good. Right. See, like, he, he brings intimidation. Is that the intent? See, it depends. Lower Red is going for lovable. Right. If you're Spartan, you're wanting to be intense.

Scary. So here's where, this is so good. This is where. So there is a mascot Hall of Fame. And this year's, so here's some of who's in the Hall of Fame. I don't even, who is, oh, for the Denver Nuggets, Rocky the Mountain Line. He's one of the best mascots. Rocky the Mountain Line.

In the nation. The Oriole Bird. I'm sure he has a name, but for the Chicago Blackhawks Tommy Hawk. Tommy Hawk, I like that. Tommy Hawk. The coyote for the Spurs is just the coyote. Yeah, he's pretty good too.

Casey Wolf. Okay. Of the Chiefs. Yeah, he's also good. Brutus Buckeye. Most people know Brutus Buckeye. Is it Upie? UP.

UP. of the Montreal Canadian. I'm not for sure. a French name, so boomer of the Indiana Pacers. Okay. I don't even know if I've seen him. UD. UD. UD.

UD. UD. UD. Oh, all right. Benny the Bull. Of course. Ben, he's good. He's also good.

He's fantastic. Of course, the San Diego chicken, who's the goat? Can we be, can we agree on the fact that the San Diego chicken is the goat of mascot? I don't know. Benny, the bowl is pretty good.

I'm old school. Benny the bowl's pretty good. I'm old school. So I'm going to tell you. I'm just going to tell you that San Diego Chicken elevated the mascot game. Elevate,

go, full go. Okay. My computer. I'm not going to argue it. My computer is. So here's what we're doing. We'll go to break. We'll pick up right here.

We come back to one-on-one. Mascots in the Hall of Fame. And then, again, putting respect on the name. Low, Hall of Famer. Yep. Little Red. You're listening to one-on-one with DP.

Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Yeah, we're fully down the rabbit hole. I love it. We went to to the Husker, to the Mascot Hall of Fame. Page, yep. Uh-huh.

And in full, full disclosure. We were incorrect in saying that both Nebraska mascots are in the Hall of Fame. Herbie's not. There is a difference between being the mascot of the year and being in the Hall of Fame.

So imagine Heisman Trophy winner, player of the year, mascot of the year. Herbie won mascot of the year. Herbie is not in the mascot Hall of Fame. It's Lorette. Loret is in the Mascot Hall of Fame. Can this officially put the debate away that Lorette,

like put respect on Ler Red. He is a better mascot than Herbie. I don't care what anyone says. He is a better mascot. He's, if you said that through all the Hysman trophy winners, that only one got into the college football Hall of Fame.

Wouldn't you deem that that player was the was the best player in Nebraska history? Probably. Right? That's what it says. Right? Listen, it's good that Nebraska, both of their mascots, well, not all of their mascots,

their last two, because there were the mascots before. The mascots before, while legendary, not Hall of Fame. that little red is in the Hall of Fame and one of 33

yeah there's not many there's only 33 mascots pro college or otherwise we're in the Hall of Fame and in the Big Ten Conference now Penn State's mascot Nittany

I don't know how he's in it he's not that good it is the worst mascot outfit in the Hall of Fame at least Well, the only mascot outfit that was terrible, that was worst in my mind was Stanford's back in the day when they had this horrible rag tag tree costume. There was a human walking around in a tree. And it wasn't even well done. It was terrible.

Truth be told, it was terrible. But I don't think Penn State's mascots that good. Maybe I'm a hater. All right. Well, he got into the class of 2017. I don't know how. So then, so I'll give you the list. So Philly Fanatic, who may be the most known now.

Yeah. Now, there is a minor league one slugger of the Portland Seedogs. All right. Who got in. I'm a fan. I'm looking at him now. I'm a fan because he looks like how I want a dog mascot look. UGA is not in

Uga is not in which I think changes soon it's a serious debate yeah I think that yeah that has to happen The Phoenix Sun's gorilla He's good

Smokey from the University of Tennessee Do you know who the White Sox mascot is? No South Paul. Okay. And it's a green, googly thing.

Okay. Weird. Yeah. Weird is the right description. Then, and in the Big Ten, so the Houston Astros. Yeah.

Not surprising. Orbit. Astros. Mm. Orbit. Cute. Cute. My time in Houston made me a fan.

The Cleveland Indian. Indians slider. Yeah. Makes sense. Then you have Syracuse Orange. Otto the Orange. His name is Otto. His name is Otto and he is orange.

He's just a big orange. He's just a big orange. Yeah, I'm looking at it. I see it. Right? Mr. Met. Mr. Met. Traditional long game. big huge baseball head

I'm seeing I can't wait to get down this list because there's one that's making me laugh that's in the hall of him right like that's kind of what this is right just to go through it and I'll say this again nitney is the

like that outfit is the worst ass outfit of it it's it's um the Harlem Globetter mascot that's what that's the one I'm like the heart globey I didn't even know they had a mask globy

I didn't know they had a mascot. Globy I didn't know is in the Husker Hall of Fame. Because he's traveled the World. The Massacre Hall of Fame. He's literally traveled the world. And his head is the world. His head is the world.

Yeah, he's an ambassador. Casey the Wolf, the Utah Jazz Bear, who I can, I know that I knew the actual original Jazz Bear. Incredible dude, incredible athlete, spectacular. He's good. Yep, he's. And then Jackson DeVille. again who's very cool

and he's a very cool looking mascot. Did you say Little Red or you're not there yet? Low Red that's so funny that's so funny that's so funny that they're

Bucky Badger Yeah So he's good Big Ten mascot He's pretty good Badger Right Brutus Buckeye

He's mid in my opinion But it's whatever he can be in Yeah I mean it's a thing It's a thing. Aubby from Auburn, the Auburn Tiger. I like that. It's a good looking outfit. So you don't feel like.

Yeah. It's not too kiddie, but it's not too scary. It's like a perfect middle. Right. Now, there is a big red in the Hall of Fame, the Mascot Hall of Fame, except he's from Western Kentucky University. Yeah. I'm looking, he looks scary.

He looks kind of scary. He's fun. He does a lot of like facial expressions. He's got big eyebrows is what I'm seeing. I didn't know that blue was in. The Colts? Yeah. Your boy, Blue.

He's pretty good. He's pretty good. I didn't know that Blue was in. Blue is in. Little Red. Low Red. Put respect on Low Red. Little Red.

Little Red. Hall of Famer. The fact that he is in company with all these mascots just shows how elite of a mascot. He. Hall of Famer. He.

Loret. Yeah. Like, do your thing, bro. Like, I, he's like the

Kevin Duran of mascots. Like, we can't even, we can't even, um, surprise that Monty. Monty.

Monty. From Montana, the Grizzlies. Mm. And that's a pretty cool one because he's got a bandana. A bear bandana. That's a win. Because I guarantee that bandana is.

very popular. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure Lil Red is the only human mascot, like the only mascot that's an actual like person out of all of those. I'm pretty sure because when I look, it says costumed character like it's a character mascot. He's the only like human. Well, it says it says I'm pretty sure. Right. He's the only. Yeah. Yeah. They list him in his own category. Yeah. He's in his own category on the website. He is the only costumed human character. Yeah. And fully costume.

Yeah. Like, so he doesn't get to change his facial expression. He doesn't have, you. No, he's, this blow up. So he's there. And I'm pretty sure that somebody out there knows somebody who's been little red. We need to find somebody who's actually been in the little red. I could only, I can only imagine how amazing that would be to be a little red.

Right. Like, like, they missed, they missed the layup. I'm pretty sure there's a, like a, a competition. Yeah. How at Nebraska has this memo not been pushed that Lower Red is in, is a Hall of Famer with only like 32 other mascots? Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, that the NCAA through a full survey of fans and athletes is listed and voted as the, number one inflatable mascot in all of the NCAA.

Lorette. Loret. I'm telling you, he is elite. Why do Husker fans not like him? Well, somebody got, and it's funny too, because, you know, you can find everything on the internet and people complaining that it's the university holding on to the 80s and 90s. But anybody that wants to get rid of the 80s and 90s, quite frankly, stop it. That's literally the reason why Nebraska.

is at all like. Why do you have holidays to hold on tradition as a reminder for the past? Yeah. Good things pass. That's why you have birthdays. That's why you have anniversaries. Literally saying like don't pay attention to the past. Stop it.

It's a lame thing to say. You're better than that. I agree. You're better than that. Especially when it's a little red. Right? Like Hall of Famer. Hall of Fame and Larry.

Hall of Fame. Like again, full proclamation coming. It's pretty amazing. Should we throw out the break before? Yeah, and we'll go through a little bit more. We'll get back to the bug eaters. Yeah, we need to touch on bug eaters. And corn cob man, we'll get to those when we come back to one on them.

You're listening to One On One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com. It's been busy. It's been fun one-on-one. We started with the Paris Olympics and the Huskers in it and the Big Ten conference in it. And we bounced around and we ended up paying tribute to Hall of Famer, Little Red. Herbie's not a Hall of Famer. Herbie is not a Hall of Fame. He was a mascot of the year, but he was not a Hall of Fame.

I think that officially makes Little Red the better mascot, in my opinion. He's the goat. He's the only human character. He's the goat. He's definitely the best inflatable mascot out there. Right. In my opinion, like by far the best. And then they said a thing, we went back to the original, because I said, if you're going to do throwbacks, you have to do bug eaters throwbacks.

Yeah. You got to do bug. So the bug eaters, and this was, they're the footprint for college football in Nebraska. And they said, and this is from the university history website, that at first the name bug eaters began as a little joke about the people of Nebraska. The people who came to Nebraska were mainly immigrants seeking a new life. Now, just circle that when you have discussions today about Nebraska. If you know how you started, you should probably chill out the rest of the way. You should probably, you should probably chill out.

Mainly immigrants seeking a new life. And then there was a phase in a marketing brand that said, football pleaders players to eat corn not bugs the transition and the messaging from bug eaters to corn huskers right state statewide nickname which came from Nebraska's notorious numerous bull bats which should be the actual name of the of Nebraska athletics bull bats because those are the animals that ate corn

I would eat bugs to protect the the crops. So it says yeah they were called bug eaters because they fed on bugs. The name was also apt because of the poverty stricken appearance of many

parts of the state. In 1900 a sports correspondent began calling the team the cornhuskers and by 1907 the name was accepted by Charles Cy Sherman Lincoln Sports editor was credited with having conceived the name and in 1933, the university athletic board presented him with a gold football properly inscribed as such.

Just going to just going to say it. Whoever made a little red should get a gold football as well. Yep. Right? But do we talk about, I mean, that a journalist created the name. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. A sports writer.

switched it from bug eaters to cornhusband. That is interesting. Right? And this is the footprint for all of this. It says, and I can go into it, it hadn't been a significant tradition for many Americans in the United States. And Nebraska, however, it was part of the way of life since the early days of the University of Nebraska. When it started the program, they were the bug eaters.

The first few names, ready for this? At first, they were the Nebraska's. That's the very first. name. The Nebraska Nebraska-Nabraskins. That's lame. Then they were the tree planers.

The old gold knights. And then a popular one, the rattlesnake boys. I never heard that one. The rattlesnake boys. The name bug eaters given to the team in the 1890s

that lasts the rest of that decade. However, it was changed at the turn of the century. but also representing Nebraska as a whole. The bug eaters lasted for a couple of decades, the state, even preceding statehood. Statehood. Listen, there's a whole bunch of this thing.

This is like this is a rabbit, we're never going to go get out of it. Yeah, we need another show. We just, we'll do this. Because in having the Big Ten mascots as a conversation piece, here's what we need to remember Purdue Pete is not the mascot of the University

or Purdue University. It's a train. It's the Boilermaker special that's the actual mascot. Purdue Pete just represents the athletic department. There's Brutus Buckeye, Buckey Badger, Goldie the golfer, Goldie the Goldie the Goldie the GERC

Herbie Husker, Herkey the Hawk. Hercie is the Hawk name. Joe Bruin. for UCLA. Yeah. Little Red is included in the mascots as well. Nittany line.

Is the Nebraska the only one with two mascots? Yes. The Oregon Duck. Well, Purdue Pete is considered so Purdue has two. I guess. Sparty.

Tustudo. Traveler. Willie the Wildcat and, of course, Bucky Badd. Those are the mascots. You know what? Little Red might be the best

out of all of them. Shout out. Hall of Famer. To the Hall of Famer. Little Red. Thank you.