A Bear at Spartan Stadium?!?!?!

So how many of you out there watched the Iowa State game last Saturday? Epic game wasn't it? Iowa yet further proved my belief that they are the most overrated team in the nation. They should have lost to State, Michigan, and Northern Iowa (that's 1aa school.) But that's not what I'm blogging about.

While at Spartan Stadium, I saw this guy in a bear suit doing the pregame ring toss for pizza. Amazingly, he went five for five, throwing the hoola hoop perfectly everytime to his partner on the field. But why was in he a bear suit? It wasn't Halloween, State's not the bruins... so I did a little investigating. And here's what I found out.

In 1909 Michigan State, coached by Coach Chester Brewer, had a live brown bear named Monty, or Brewer's Bruin, as it's mascot. For those of you that missed it, 1909 was exactly 100 years ago. So these gentlemen at the stadium had a purpose for the bear suit. The man in the suit was none other than Brewer's Bruin.

The Bear sat front row by the band, and got some attention. The bear got his airtime while Iowa was driving to win the game. But for those of you that saw him, it wasn't just a drunk fan in a bear suit, they had a reason. They brought back Brewer's Bruin.