Game Day Addition?

[Withers940]

I was scrolling through Twitter and came across something that would be pretty Bad A**. What if we had a Bald Eagle that did a fly over before the game like the War Eagle at Auburn? I'm in

 

[MeanGreen_MBA]

I would love to have this.  What an great attraction.  Why have we not done this up to now????  I know nothing about Eagles, so I cannot do it.

[EagleMBA]

Put a jet pack on Scrappy!

[MEANGREENCOACH2]

Windmills could come into play here in a disaster type of way!

[DeepGreen]

I briefly watched a football game recently and they  did have an trained Eagle soaring across the stadium.  Really impressive.  A beautiful site.

[GreenMachine]

I thought we did years ago but the cost associated with it was too high.

[Ben Gooding]

17 minutes ago, MEANGREENCOACH2 said:

Windmills could come into play here in a disaster type of way!

The eagles that do this are highly trained and very, very rarely go off course. When they do they rarely go that far off to hit one of our turbines. I think the one at AU went off course a few years back and went head first into a plexi glass of their suites. Other than that I can't recall another time. 

[MEANGREENCOACH2]

I am just saying!!

Let's say hypothetically a smoking hot girl Eagle flies by during Scrappy Junior's routine.  He may just get distracted enough to forgo his training and let the inner animal come out.

[greenjoe]

How about a drone disguised to look like an eagle ?   

[Hunter Green]

54 minutes ago, GreenMachine said:

I thought we did years ago but the cost associated with it was too high.

If memory serves, we use to have a Golden Eagle on loan from the FT. Worth Zoo that was available on game days, and may have been taken care of by the Talons. Old Timer may have more insight on this. There was also fairly recent talk of building an aviary on campus to house a Baldy, but nothing more was ever made of it, as far as I know. I'm sure there is a lot of time, expense, and expertise to care for a wild/trained eagle. It would take a real commitment. Not like housing a steer or a bear. But Auburn apparently has it down. Maybe a representative from UNT could make the trip and get the details on what it takes to maintain a bird like that.

Edited November 23, 2016 by Hunter Green

[greenjoe]

Many of you will remember the aviary near the entrance to the old golf course club house.  I never saw a bird, eagle or otherwise but I was always told an eagle mascot had lived there at one time.  I can't imagine leaving such a bird relatively unattended so close to what became I-35. 

Beat UTEP

GO MEAN GREEN

[Eastwood Eagle]

5 hours ago, MEANGREENCOACH2 said:

Windmills could come into play here in a disaster type of way!

Lmfao. Seems like something that would happen if RV was still AD.

[Moobs]

Just put a parachute on Scrappy and drop him in.   I'd do it!

[cdizzle86]

Why not just get a drone and dress it up as an eagle? Then attach a Bluetooth speaker to it that plays the screeching eagle noise.

Edited November 23, 2016 by cdizzle86

[Aldo]

20 hours ago, cdizzle86 said:

Why not just get a drone and dress it up as an eagle? Then attach a Bluetooth speaker to it that plays the screeching eagle noise.

Lock it up, this wins

[UNT 90 Grad]

[Stix]

Paint it green and give it some eyebrows