By David Johnson
Big Blue the Bull, mascot of the Utah State University Aggies, has had a bad case of the blues for the past few weeks.
As if to add insult to injury, after BYU''s demoralizing Oct. 4 comeback victory over Utah State, kidnappers stole Big Blue''s mascot girlfriend, Betty.
But, Big Blue is not so blue anymore.
'Between 1 and 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, one of our University police officers noticed suspicious activity on the pedestrian ramp between the Marriott center and the administration building,' said Carri Jenkins, assistant to the president for university communications. 'When he went up the ramp, two individuals fled, and at that point, we recovered Betty Blue.'
Jenkins warns against jumping to any conclusions about the identity of the perpetrators.
'There is nothing to indicate that these are BYU students,' Jenkins said, 'It''s possible that Betty is on this campus just as a setup.'
Jenkins is not the only one that questions the identity of the perpetrators.
'We don''t know yet if it was BYU that kidnapped her,' Big Blue said. 'We think she might have gone with Cosmo. I believe there was some electricity between them at the game.'
Representatives from USU came to retrieve Betty Tuesday afternoon Jenkins said. She is now resting safely at home in a storage room of The Spectrum, USU''s basketball arena.
So far BYU and USU Police have no suspects in the kidnapping of Ms. Blue, but they do have a description of the kidnapper from the Oct. 4 game: Male, long blond hair, approximately 20 years old.