Bevo got no balls, yo... bad choice of representation by my reckoning.
Seriously? Do you even know what a mascot is?
Are Albert E and Alberta real alligators?
Do you think the little bitty Sooner Schooner is a full scale representation of what covered wagons used in the Land Rush actually looked like?
Do you imagine that the dude who dresses up as the West Virginia Mountaineer actually carries a rifle loaded with black powder AND ammunition?
Do you imagine that the Trojans who USC pay homage to all carried plastic swords in real life?
Bevo's a mascot like Orbit or Hookem. A mascot is merely a symbol.
In the case of Bevo, he may just be a steer but he represents a breed.
The breed is tough, hardy and indigenous to Texas. It can prevail in extreme heat, in barren, drought stricken lands. It's an amazing creature and a wonderful symbol for Texas, whose earliest settlers also endured a harsh and hostile environment.
Ever been around cattle? The docile nature you see from a distance belies a danger that comes from their enormous weight and light-footed lateral quickness in small places. Bulls possess power and ferocity. You know the running of the bulls in Spain that has killed a couple of dozen people over the years? That breed of bull was part of the ancestral makeup of the longhorn. Ever seen a longhorn up close? Those horns can run 7 feet from tip to tip.
Ever google death by longhorn or people killed by longhorns. Yeah, despite people pretty much leaving them the hell alone and giving them vast acreage to themselves, longhorns still manage to kill a person every few years, by goring them or trampling them.
Longhorns are not be trifled with. Bevo has to be snipped and drugged. It's the only responsible thing to do. Can you imagine the havoc a full-sized longhorn bull would wreak in a stadium of 100,000 people?
