Bad Kitty! Cincinnati mascot detained, cited

[amjohnston]

CINCINNATI (AP) -Cincinnati's Bearcat mascot was cited for disorderly conduct after a snowball-throwing incident in the stands during a game against Pittsburgh.

Heavy snow covered the field and stands for the Big East game on Saturday afternoon. When Pitt's Dion Lewis scored the second of his three touchdowns in the half, students pelted him with snowballs and were told to stop.

A school spokesman says the mascot also was told to stop throwing snowballs in the stands and pushed a security guard, knocking both of them to the ground. The mascot was detained and cited. He was not identified.

A backup mascot took his place at halftime.

Am I the only one who is both impressed on the one hand but frightened on the other that the school had a "backup mascot"?

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It's not all that uncommon. I was the 2nd backup mascot at my alma mater, we actually had 3. I mean you can't have too many Santas, right? I think we had 3 backups because the 1st backup was a winter sport participant and they needed someone in case she had a game. I was chosen because I was good at the intermission games. I was pretty good at knock out, broomball, and dodgeball with the suit on. The third guy was chosen to back me up because I played volleyball and couldn't back up during the fall. I mean if you manage student workers, you need to have backups in case someone shows up with the brown bottle flu.