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Loyal Fans Make Large Gopher In Driveway

May 12, 2008

Jim and Janice Beach are long-time fans of the University of Minnesota’s football team. The big oak tree that stood in the center of their driveway died, so the Beach’s have carved and painted its trunk to create a 12-foot-tall statue of “Goldy Gopher,” the team mascot. Their driveway on Main Street in Freeborn is now a tourist attraction, according to the Fort Mill Times.

Sports fans may be channeling their energy into home-made, permanent roadside mascots, something that everyone should keep an eye out for (and report here if you see one). For now, we can only wonder how Goldy, with his giant buck teeth, would fare in a smackdown against the fanged razorback hog that another fan-zealot has built in Arkansas.

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