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Ralphie V benched for Sunday
Posted August 29, 2008
Colorado football fans eager to see the regular-season debut of Ralphie V, the school's new live buffalo mascot, will have to wait at least a week.
Handlers have been unable to train with Ralphie V in Folsom Field because new turf there has needed time to take root. Her predecessor, 10-year-old Ralphie IV, will lead the football team on to the field at Invesco Field at Mile High on Sunday evening instead.
CU athletic director Mike Bohn said Ralphie V proved hard to handle when she made her first run around Folsom Field at the spring game. She escaped all but one determined handler that day and officials wanted to avoid the possibility of the same thing happening in Denver.
Officials decided it would be best for the older Ralphie to run in Denver where the route is a 120-yard sprint from the back of one end zone to the other end of the field without the turn. Ralphie IV is much slower than Ralphie V and has made the run before.
...The Oct. 4 Big 12 Conference opener against Texas is nearing a sellout and the only way to purchase tickets for the game at this point is to become a season-ticket holder. CU has placed about 500 tickets on hold for all games for possible season-ticket buyers, those tickets could become available when the game draws near.
Bohn said tickets for the West Virginia game on Thursday night Sept. 18, also are going fast.
...After attending the first Pearl Street Stampede of the season on Friday evening, members of the football team and some coaches loaded into three large buses and went to the movies.
The team saw a special engagement of the new movie "The Express" about Ernie Davis, who became the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961 as a running back for Syracuse. He died at 23 after battling Leukemia.
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Posted by MDBuff on August 30, 2008 at 9:15 a.m.
Polk and Ralphie V are being redshirted and it was their idea.
Posted by halluxvalgus on August 30, 2008 at 10:53 p.m.
wait- Ralphie V almost kicked her whole team at the spring game? ALL HAIL RALPHIE V! Our new stampeding overlord. She's already more interesting than IV, who had a tendency to just refuse to run.
Also, hilarious comment above. kudos!
Posted by halluxvalgus on August 30, 2008 at 11:09 p.m.
I guess this is as good a place as any- Verbal Clark Evans and his Los AL team are ranked 3rd in Orange County, mostly because of Evans. There was early talk that Clark would line up as a defensive end on obvious passing downs, but Evans himself downplayed that.
also check out ocvarsity.com for more of Evans. Here's a recent mention:
"As Barnes starts to think about the physical skills of the 6-4, 223-pound Evans, his enthusiasm overflows.
“I told him (the other day), if you don't look like a college quarterback right now, I don't know who does,” Barnes said. “You just go, ‘What a dude!' ”
In 10 games last season, Evans passed for 2,118 yards and rushed for 952.
Biggins calls him a “beast.”
Evans committed to Colorado during the summer but felt under-recruited by some colleges.
UCLA envisioned him as a tight end.
“He's going to be a real good college quarterback,” Barnes said. “He can beat you in a bunch of ways.”
Evans said his early college decision has allowed him to focus on the Griffins' season. And in his script for the season, he encounters a certain quarterback from Mater Dei, in the spotlight, in December.
“It would be picture-perfect to play Barkley in the CIF finals,” Evans said. “That would be a good game.”
Posted by snuesken on September 2, 2008 at 6:59 a.m.
I knew it! I was pumped to watch Ralphie V again at the game Sunday but was disappointed to see a big, slow Ralphie instead. I openly wondered to my wife if that was Ralphie IV. It was either that or they'd managed to tame V.
To tell the truth, I was disappointed either way. I like the symbolism of an out of control Buffalo stampeding our team onto the field. That's exactly the message I want to give our opponents.