Purdue’s train broke down on the field and it was probably the high point of its day

We should have known things wouldn’t go well for the Boilermakers.

Sometimes you just wake up and know it’s not going to be your day. Saturday was that kind of morning for Purdue.

The 5-3 Boilermakers took the field for a key home contest against a struggling Iowa, and as the team ran out onto the field in their traditional pregame festivities, one member of the Purdue entourage struggled to make it to the sidelines. That member would be Purdue’s locomotive mascot, the Boilermaker Special, an actual working vehicle that the school claims is ” the world’s largest, fastest, heaviest, and loudest collegiate mascot.”

Unfortunately for the engineers piloting the train today, their beloved mascot did not quite live up to that billing.

It was a grim portent of things to come for Purdue, whose offense looked about as effective at forward motion as the train and fell behind Iowa 17-3 by halftime. Some days the train just doesn’t want to run and apparently neither did Purdue’s offense.

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