the gopher just knocks the seventh-grader right over. meanwhile that demonic penguin or crow or whatever is just along for the ride apparently. and yes, we also have this in slow motion. the coach of the seventh-grader who got gophered says the player was not hurt thankfully and that the kids actually got a kick out of this going somewhat viral. and it's a good thing the kids are good sports about it because goldie the gopher is even talking trash about this on twitter for the university of minnesota coach and all to see. "put me in, coach fleck. i think i still have some eligibility left." two things. how does he tweet with those paws? and what exactly is up with mascots? if you do even an extremely low impact google search you can find clip after clip of mascots just pummeling kids on football fields across this great land. unicorns and -- was that spongebob squarepants? wait, is that -- that looks like spongebob. what are some of these mascots, after all? i guess -- is that a horse? there's some giant baseball