Bevo is Texas' beloved mascot and the mascot of the week. I haven't posted in a while because we were sick, and then on vacation. But for now, I am posting.
At halftime on the Texas-Texas A&M game of 1916, two cowboys went onto the field and presented a half-dead longhorn to the crowd. Legend says that his coat was as orange as Texas' colors, so they showed him to Texas.
It is very widely accepted that Bevo got his name from some Texas A&M joksters that branded 13-0, the score that Texas A&M beat Texas by, on Bevo's coat. Then Texas fixed it by changing the 13 to a "B", the hyphen to an "E", put a "V" in between the hyphen and the 0. They left the 0 as an O. That spelled out B-E-V-O. That story is true, but Bevo was already named by then. He was named the moment he was presented to them ("His name is Bevo" the coach made known).
Texas is now on their fourteenth Bevo. Bevo II once rammed at a Southern Methodist cheerleader, who used his megaphone to ward off the longhorn. Bevo V scattered Baylor's band one time. Since then no Bevos have done anything bad. Bevo XIII is to date the Bevo that saw more Texas wins than any other Bevo.