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Article: SO YOU WANT TO BE A BUCKY BADGER?(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- September 24, 2005
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Byline: Jim Rasmussen Assocaited Press
Now that school is back in session, Troy Maragos is finding some interesting ways to spend his time on the UW-Madison campus.
Take Sept. 3, for example. Just hours before the Wisconsin Badgers defeated Bowling Green at the grand reopening of Camp Randall Stadium, Maragos donned 35 pounds of cardinal and white -- including a rock-hard plastic head as big as a boulder (and about as heavy) -- and tooled around Madison's Capitol Square in the Bucky Wagon, a circa-1940 fire truck, firing up the crowd of pregame revelers.
"It was a lot of fun getting people excited on game day," Maragos said.
But the ...