We had ourselves some Pac-12 football with a touch of romance on Saturday afternoon. During the Oregon-UCLA game, Oregon’s duck mascot adorably proposed to the UCLA bear mascot on the sidelines. But it gets better! Afterward, the two engaged in a twerk-off. This is what true love looks like, folks.
Oregon’s mascot proposed to UCLA’s mascot, then had a twerk off. It was beautiful
True love does exist!
We’re unnable to confirm if the bear said yes to this duck, but congrats to the two of them if she did!
Oregon’s mascot is one with a lot of character. Spencer Hall spent a day with the boisterous duck a few years back:
The Duck should be awake. He has no eyelids and no need to sleep. His energy is inhuman, literally and figuratively. 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. 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.
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. The Duck will jump out of a bus and onto a platform. He will shadow-box with the Michigan State mascot. He will not fight today, but he could. 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.
His official name is simply “The Duck” but he has been referred to as “Puddles” in the past, which caught on after Oregon used to put a live duck named Puddles on the sidelines in the early 20th century. But of course, there has been some brand confusion that allowed for some to refer to him as puddles time and again.
Thank you, Oregon and UCLA mascots, for reminding us that true love consists of proposing and then going straight into a twerk-off.
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