Dave Fleming, I need you to know that we are celebrating two firsts today.

The first first is the first anniversary of ESPN Daily, exactly one year today.

Wow. How about a little golf clap for you?

There you go.

You're a big part of that year, so I take that golf clap and I send it to our staff as well.

The second first is that this is, I believe, yes, this is our first mascot-themed show.

And of course, you are the honored guest for that specifically.

I have a third first for you.

What is that?

I'm the first person at ESPN to ever celebrate their 20th anniversary at the company

while trying to track down a mascot called Rufus.

So I have that going for me.

This is not just any normal mascot story.

This is a mascot beef story.

What do these things look like?

That was really interesting part of this story is that the way that these masks are story. What do these things look like?

That was really interesting part of this story is that the way that these mascots were stitched perfectly fits the scenario of an ambush attack by Rufus, the Ohio University

Bobcat. He's a giant cat, Bobcat, I should say. And his eyes are stitched in a way that he

looks like he's strung out on catnip and looking for someone to attack. And poor Brutus is just this

giant buck-eye nut head and his eyes are

stitched in a

way that

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