Finding the perfect mascot is a difficult task for any sports team. Usually they want to find something that is both intimidating and relatable to the community. Normally, teams choose an animals or a character to be their mascot, but sometimes the perfect mascot comes in a different form.
While Baylor University may be known as the bears, their new unofficial mascot is a green suit wearing toddler with a mullet that is gaining fans all throughout Texas, even from rival schools.
Baylor’s men’s basketball team recently won the Big 12 regular season title, but while the accomplishment had many excited, it was a fan that made it onto the court for the celebration that has the internet going wild. A toddler named “Bear Bacon” went viral recently thanks to his Baylor fandom. According to Bro Bible, Bacon’s parents bring him to many games dressed in a green suit, with a yellow tie and suspenders. Of course, it is the mullet haircut that has many fans obsessed.
After video of Bacon at the most recent game went viral, many fans are calling him the school’s new mascot. Now, his parents will take him to Kansas City to cheer on Baylor at the Big 12 tournament. Soon enough the child’s trademark mullet will be seen all over Waco.
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