Butler Blue

Two of our hometown universities are cheering along with new live mascots this year.

Purdue falls—and so does former IUPUI coach Ron Hunter.

Via @notthatjohnking: “Attention All Local Business Owners: You do not have to put your kid in your TV commercial.”

Former Butler University president Dr. Bobby Fong died on Sept. 8 at age 64. In tribute, here is our 2006 City Guide story about Dr. Fong making his home in Indy for 10 years during his Butler tenure.

“It is so nice to have a virgin experience at this stage in my life,” says Michael Feinstein. “And so I will be coming with great expectations but no attachment to any particular driver.”

IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden definitely dances best in the clip. He impresses with or without his helmet, as he bounces on the IMS track’s pavement and then in front of the Pagoda.

It’ll be a while before these new favorite snapshots grow old.

Everything you do is an event, chronicled on Twitter. Colts games. Pep rallies. Visiting a high-school chemistry class. Even now, as you are snorting, huffing, drooling, Michael tweets to your 10,000 followers, pretending to be you.

An inside look at the early years of the beloved mascot, from the IM archives.