Morning Wrap: Longhorn Network to Show 5 Hours of Bevo for Christmas

Bevo at Home

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No, the headline does not have a typo in it.

While WPIX-TV in New York City may have been the first TV station to show the "Yule Log" for Christmas. It's now been topped.

And yes, people actually turn on their TV's and just have the shot of a fireplace log on it.

Uh...anyway....

The Longhorn Network will take the "Yule Log" and put a Texas twist on it. Or so to speak.

The all Texas Longhorns TV channel will show five hours of commercial free video of the Longhorns mascot, Bevo the Bull, roaming on his ranch.

Yes, really.

Supposedly the network will pipe in Christmas music as background. And hey, it just might work.

Heck, we're guessing if the Alabama Crimson Tide had their own network, they could show five hours of a Nick Saban photo with a Christmas sweater, put music behind it and it would be the highest rated show in the state.

But we could be wrong....

Mascot War: Teddy Roosevelt With Flying Clothesline on Pittsburgh Pierogi

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Somethings you just can't make up. This really happened.

During the famed "Mascot" race at Friday nights Washington Nationals/Pittsburgh Pirates we got to see something you just don't see very often.

A pro wrestling move.

One of the Nationals most popular racers "Teddy Roosevelt" won the race and at about the time he finished, some "Pittsburgh Pierogi's" ran onto the field.

Teddy got some helpers to put down a chair, ran, hopped on the chair and took down a Pierogi with a flying clothesline that would make anyone in the WWE proud.

Oh the hilarity.

Your turn Pittsburgh...

Video from the Nationals their own selves:

#MascotFail: Ace Misses The Exit

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The HQ doesn't know if this is a work or not- considering, according to #Fan590 FOSG Jim Lang (@JimLang590), two jackwagons ran onto the field during the game at SkyDome between the Blue Jays and Red Sox...

But... pratfalls are always funny...
Just ask the Jays mascot, Ace...


See...???
Told ya...

Smokey And The Wildcat, Mascot Gets Loose vs. UK

Nothing like a blue-tick coon hound getting loose to put some excitement into a really bad football game...

All we have to say about this is: How in the bluetick hell do you let your mascot loose...???

It wasn't quite UGA-V going after Robert Baker, but it was pretty funny...
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Smokey got his drive-by. Tennessee got the win...
It was a wash...

ICYMI: This is the Summer Games Mascot?

Yikes!

We're guessing that the folks on the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games committee doesn't want to hear anybody saying they had "The Worst Mascot Ever", because now they don't.

We also know...and admire the fact the British have a fantastic, if somewhat eccentric sense of humor.

That being said, the 2012 (shhh) Olympic Game feature what is widely considered the worst mascots ever.

We say that knowing we risk the secret marketing police of the Games who we can't say the title of may come seek us out and wipe us off the mat for (a) saying a derivative of their name and (b) showing their strange, odd looking mascot.

Oh, they are named Wenlock...and Mandeville.

Take a look at the photo on the right.

Does it not look like a "High-Tech Trash Can"? That's what we thought it was until we saw the description. For the kiddies out there, they may be confused, for they also bear a striking resemblence to "The Long-Lost Tele-Tubbie Twins". Or for the "Sci-Fi" geek, a strange character from one of the older versions of Dr. Who.

Oh, those wacky Brits!

With tonight being the Kickoff to the City we also cannot name due to marketing rights, just take comfort in knowing they found the most appropriate use of a Mascot we've seen yet.

Form of a Trash Can!

The Death of Local News...continued: KTLA faux mascot fight

Since we spent the better part of our career...okay,, the longer part of it, in Local TV News, the rash of Local Sports flubs and crap that the News people put on the air continues to get more painful to see.

In today's example of really, really stupid, unfunny "Skits", the morning crew at KTLA went to a local Los Angeles Ice Rink and "allegedly" attempted to interview the LA Kings mascot and the New Jersey Devils mascot as a preview to Wednesday nights game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals, led by the Kings, 3 games to none.

We're guessing nobody told Allie McKay that mascots don't speak.

Well, following the interview attempt, supposed "Chaos" ensued and a faux brawl broke out, notice towards the end of her live shot, McKay comes into frame and starts spanking the Devils mascot.

And the hilarity ensued.

Yeah...right.

Here's your video: