Several years ago, the University of Oregon played the University of Utah in a first round game. A duck with a human head and a bird with a human head were duking it out. Maybe, they see this kind of thing all of the time. The Duck has found himself (or is that “herself”? Visit us on LinkedIn. His props fail, then work, with delayed comic effect, like when he bashes at a toy rocket until it finally pops off the launch pad and into the ceiling. You would nudge, cajole, and murmur politely.
The second game of the suspension was the next home game.
He tells me to sit with him on the stage, where he usually interviews guests for Late Night. Apparently, the Oregon mascot, a duck, thought he was getting too close to the cheerleaders. Bump into a Best Coaster, and you have A SITUATION, BRO. They did a test skydive on a Friday. —Duck no.
Like, long stories, both about Oregon football and just about life. We didn’t end up doing that bit. No way. That’s when the Utah bird came off the stilts and decked the duck. Oregon’s first live mascot Puddles surfaced in the 1920s when a live duck was escorted to football and basketball games. How hot is it in there?
There were no tryouts; I had no training, no guidelines. The Duck is fist-pumping and hugging a 79-year-old man wearing a duck head. And the cheer coach said, “Well, it’s all of them. But one thing can’t be concealed: it’s a heckuva lot of fun being the Duck. He sure as hell isn't giving any warning about incoming pastry. The Duck chooses them, and they are merely along for the ride. He has no eyelids and no need to sleep. My first job is at the spring game for football in 2006. And I had a head with long eyelashes and green makeup on the eyes. But I was getting misty-eyed in the suit. I think Smokey can take him. It's his now. Visit us on Instagram The mascot wears a green and yellow costume, and a green and yellow beanie cap with the word "Oregon" written on it. He has no reason to leave. I’m standing near the entrance to the tunnel. He does not talk, and can't, despite whatever rumors you heard about him whispering to Lee Corso on the ESPN set on Saturday.
He showed up at a band meeting at 5:15 with the same expression he wears forever: pupils flared almost to the limits of his eyes, a thin margin of white outlining them, and the broad permagrin of his bill leading the way at eye level. (Editorial comment: Male cheerleaders get a bad rap.
The university wanted to suspend the mascot but didn’t know who the mascot was. The next time you score a touchdown, we’ll roll around a bit, you get a couple of blows in, we’ll get a couple blows in.”. The Duck is going to do what the Duck wants to do. I got in contact with his management. And we’re like, “Look, that got a huge reaction out of the crowd, let’s plan something for the second half. It works, too. But the university was not going to let a student skydive. There aren’t too many opportunities in your life you can be with a guy with a song in the Top 40 and give him a piggyback on stage. Enter your email address to follow this blog and enter the SBI world. The show ends. In fact, there’s only one thing the Duck won’t do: speak. The bird didn’t budge, so the duck did what any good mascot would do. I don’t hurt him, he doesn’t hurt me. The Duck goes in and out of the games, sits in the stands, walks the hallways. Bump into a New Yorker, and he or she will assume you are just as terrible a human being as he or she is, maybe mumbling a profanity or two before sprinting away. The Duck, because he is a giant, man-sized waterfowl walking the earth pantsless, has no fear of crowds. He will make no fewer than four major appearances today, rolling out on the motorcycle twice, leading the football team through a walk-through, wandering the tailgates pre-game, and finally working the entire game in 93-degree heat without a break. UO prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in all programs, activities and employment practices as required by Title IX, other applicable laws, and policies. He stops to jump into a crowd to live-heckle a Michigan State fan. It’s a slide. Asking for any explanation makes you the asshole, not him. Anyway, they were going through their performance when the Utah mascot, some kind of bird, starting walking around on stilts. If he's firing Voodoo Doughnuts into the "College GameDay" crowd with a slingshot, he's not waiting for anyone to turn around. Before I go any further, I must say that Oregon has the best cheerleading squad that I have ever seen. He’s the nicest guy ever.
Where’s the head?” She tells me, “We don’t know where it is. I look over and see this guy yelling, “GO!” So I step to the side.
On top of that, they have to be pretty strong.). It is important to note here that West Coast people usually have a very specific and exagerrated notion of personal space. You have to suspend the Duck.” —Duck no. The head is lost. We try to get tickets because it is a fun event to attend. There were some inappropriate gestures. It was a funny outfit—it came just to the top of my legs. What does it feel like when the crowd goes wild? It bore no resemblance to the current Duck, but there was a reaction: laughter and silliness. I stuck my head out the window and as I looked down at the crowd in Autzen, I put my arms up, and everyone turned around to look up at me. I may as well put in on here, too. The Duck is The Duck. It is 5:55 a.m. Pacific time. They wanted the Duck to arrive to GameDay that way. You are being pushed aside in tiny, stuttering increments by a giant waterfowl. The Duck could be about six feet tall, but I would be lying if I said he didn't feel a whole foot taller because of the mouth staring you right in the face. Oregon will score 46 points today. They’re going to truck me. Fourth quarter, I go into one of the tunnels and take off my head and try to rehydrate. The lights go on. It looks like a pretty good job to me. If there are people inside the suit, they don't choose The Duck.
The Duck will jump out of a bus and onto a platform. For these two minutes, the rest of the football team, strangely humanoid and vulnerable-looking without pads, is some kind of unattached afterthought to a few minutes of open animal worship. Yet this is not Donald in a suit, or even a thing your brain recognizes as "clearly a person wearing a suit."
in an impromptu dance-off against a cheerleader from the University of Southern California—and won, with a showstopping version of “the Worm.” The Duck has done countless pushups after touchdowns and served one very well-publicized suspension after the Houston Cougar ruffled those lily-white feathers.
And he's a good one, despite having no visible ears. Has the Duck ever gotten into scrapes that might be almost impossible to get out of?
ESPN wanted it to happen, though. He will shadow-box with the Michigan State mascot. (From the wings I hear someone yell out: "That's how you get ants!"). Herbstreit and Fowler have to call the USC-Stanford game, and the others have to scramble to Bristol and parts unknown. In 2007, The Duck and Shasta, the Houston Cougars mascot, engaged in a very real brawl on the field during a 48-27 Oregon win. It was pretty beat up. He barges through them with an insistence bordering on the comedically antisocial. But the Duck, instead of a couple of punches, he just kept going. However, one event sticks out that didn’t involve the players.
It turned out to be perfect. There are no people inside the suit, though. The Duck should be awake. And the stairs going in are very grand. He sits at a chair in the confetti and the sugar and the littered toys and props he's thrown all over the set.
The Duck does neither. We looked at the clip later, it was the perfect timing of all of these things that happened. In the meantime, the male cheerleaders from both squads were bumping chests and about to brawl. I had yellow tights, some sort of duck feet, a feather carpet from the top of my legs to top of chest and arms.
We looked at the clip later, it was the perfect timing of all of these things that happened. “What happened? We had to go to Salem a lot, to make appearances at the Capitol. He took me down and tackled me. I knew the basics of how football was played, but I didn’t know the intricacies of it. We’d slide down on our butt.
And I go, “Oh, s***.” They want me to run. I wrote, “Literally had an out-of-body experience today. He was in full form before, during, and after his team's win against Michigan State on Saturday. I can’t say anything, because the Duck doesn’t talk. It seems possible someone at Nike, Oregon’s synonymous apparel provider, went rogue. The Duck has gone to hospitals and made sick kids laugh, mastered social media with an unforgettable performance of “Gangnam Style,” and walked the entire six-mile route of the Rose Bowl parade. There were some good punches thrown before they started wrestling on the floor.
I have been to countless sporting events, and no one is better than them. I ended up going somewhere super sketchy and getting a giant $300 fur jacket that fit the Duck. He grabbed the stilts and started shaking them. I’d had a few energy drinks called Whoop Ass. But those who have been the famous fowl have tales to tell. We have a search team looking for it right now.”, Turns out, the head fell down on a branch, through the mouth. Over the years, the University of Oregon Duck has lounged in a lawn chair on the sideline of the Civil War game, coloring in a coloring book. He butts his way through without raising a hand, slowly inching his way through the crowd with only his manic, fixed facial expression as apology. The duck retaliated, and, before we knew it, they had each knocked off the other one’s head. That’s when the duck confronted the bird and motioned for him to get off the court. I look like a hot mess. But I was running the Duck’s social media at that time and sent out a tweet about it. The first rounds of the NCAA Tournament are played in Nashville on a regular basis. The bus door opens and The Duck, wearing the kind of paper crown a kid gets at Burger King, tries to jump out majestically onto a waiting golden platform held by cheerleaders. The team gave me the game ball. One of the headlines the next day: “Oregon’s Mascot Was Ducks’ Lone Highlight in National Championship Loss.”. In 2015, our football team gets to the national championship. Both student sections are going nuts. I have my own dressing room, and I’m waiting while they film the regular show. That’s the Oregon Duck and Benny Beaver, the mascot of rival Oregon State. His energy is inhuman, literally and figuratively. There is this kind of effect with any mascot: 50 feet away it is funny, at 10 it is mildly off-putting, and at six inches from your nose a mascot is the very Platonic ideal of soul-estranged terror.
I’m living this rock star life. I had an appearance in Portland, so I wasn’t around as they were conducting the trial skydive. The Duck cannot respond. We have seen great upsets and a lot of blowouts. Remember: No Matter Where You Go, There You Are. A day with The Duck: Oregon's mascot and the silent king of Eugene, Jimmy Butler dominated LeBron James in an NBA Finals game like no one ever has. 2, We were suspended for two games. I am 22 years old. Then, at the moment you feel like backing away, he does some light twerking against the wall of an adjacent port-o-let. This Nick Mullens interception is so bad I promise you could have done better. So I’m there sitting up against the wall, having multiple Gatorades, and Mariota comes running down the tunnel. She was in awe.
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