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The Oregon Duck lost its head (again!) amid a stampede of Oregon players

The Oregon Duck is the best — except when it’s headless.

The Oregon Duck is one of the best mascots in college football. Maybe even the best.

The Duck is hilarious and chaotic and often a total wild card with impressive game-day entrances, like the time last season when it ziplined into the stadium to Mission Impossible music. The Duck has also been known to occasionally lose its head, like when it trolled Deion Sanders too hard.

Well, Friday ahead of the Oregon-Purdue game in West Lafayette, the Duck had an entrance that was both chaotic and briefly left it headless.

While running on the field at the Boilermakers’ Ross-Ade Stadium, the Duck was surrounded by Oregon players, and everything was fine. Until it quickly wasn’t when the stampede of players became too much and defensive back Sione Laulea took out the Duck, who fell and lost its head for a moment before recovering well.

The Duck seemed OK, and the players definitely seemed fine as they cruised to a dominant 35-0 victory.

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The Oregon Duck takes a tumble at Purdue

The Oregon Duck fell running onto the field before the Purdue game

The Oregon Duck and Purdue had something in common on Friday night, a fall: The Duck rose and watched Oregon knock down the Boilermakers, 35-0, in Big Ten play.

Check out said Duck tripping over a player as Oregon enters the field and tumbling to the turf.

The Duck appeared to be okay as he got into a dance-off with a Purdue cheerleader

The Oregon Duck makes a surprise appearence at Matt Rhule’s press conference

There was a suprise appearence by a Big Ten mascot on Tuesday at Matt Rhule’s press conference.

In a surprising turn of events, the Oregon Duck attended Matt Rhule’s press conference on Tuesday morning. Multiple members of the Cornhuskers beat posted photos of the mascot on social media at the press conference.

At the time of posting, it’s unclear why the Oregon Duck was in Lincoln on Tuesday morning. Perhaps it was some sort of fun marketing ploy by the Oregon athletic department, as the university is officially set to become a member of the Big Ten on Thursday alongside UCLA, USC, and Washington.

Notably, Oregon is not on the Cornhuskers’ schedule for this upcoming season, and the two programs are not set to face each other until the 2026 season when the Huskers will travel to Eugene. The Ducks will make their first trip to Lincoln as a Big Ten member in 2027.

The two sides have met eight times all-time, last in 2017, when the Huskers lost 42-35 in Eugene. Nebraska holds a 6-2 advantage over Oregon all-time.

On Tuesday, Matt Rhule, offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield, defensive coordinator Tony White, and special teams coordinator Ed Foley will meet with the media and numerous student-athletes. The Huskers will start their fall camp on Wednesday as they continue to prepare for their 2024 season opener against the UTEP Miners on August 31.

In Matt Rhule’s first season in Lincoln, the Huskers went 5-7, including 3-6 in conference play.

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The Oregon Duck zip lined to Mission Impossible music in its latest extravagant entrance

The Oregon Duck is undefeated.

If there’s any mascot in college football that knows how to make an entrance, it’s the Oregon Duck. Not even a question.

Over the years, we’ve seen the Duck pull off a lot of entrance antics, from demolishing a children’s basketball hoop to trolling Deion Sanders so hard its head fell off. (Plus, there was that time it nailed a fan in the face with a sheet cake on national TV.)

Well, Friday night ahead of No. 6 Oregon’s home game against No. 16 Oregon State, the Duck somehow managed to top all its other game day entrances, sliding into Autzen Stadium on a zip line and rappelling to the field with the Mission Impossible theme music playing.

Yes, you read that correctly, and it’s spectacular.

The Oregon Duck is undefeated and then, of course, the Duck led the team out on the field too.

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The Oregon duck trolled Deion Sanders so hard its head fell off

Well, it’s always good to keep your head in situations like this, even if you’re a duck mascot.

While Colorado’s players might’ve gone a bit far by stomping all over the Oregon logo before Saturday’s big game in Eugene, Puddles the Oregon duck mascot might’ve matched them for ridiculousness.

As it was walking out of the tunnel, the duck sported a white cowboy hat and sunglasses to poke fun at Colorado head coach Deion Sanders.

There was a big, paper clock that hinted at Sanders’ “Prime Time” nickname from his electric NFL playing days, and the duck proceeded to take some sort of bat or stick and beat the everlasting daylight out of the paper “Prime Time” clock.

Well, it went fine until the mascot’s duck head fell off, sending the poor person inside the suit sprinting inside while trying to hide their face.

Okay, the shenanigans for Colorado-Oregon have already gone off the rails, and we’re very positive that this game has reached its nonsense barometer for one afternoon.

We hope Puddles the duck keeps its head the next time it tries a bit like this.

The Oregon Duck once again ranked prominently among top mascots in college football

Once again, the Oregon Duck has been named among the best mascots in the world of college football.

Whoever at the University of Oregon was the one that decided to turn The Duck from an ordinary mascot to the San Diego Chicken of college sports is a marketing genius.

Licensed from Disney, Oregon’s version of Donald Duck is among the most recognizable and marketable mascots in the nation. He is often on commercials throughout the year, and is always quick to mind when conversations of the best mascots come up. Recently, NFL.com conducted its annual survey of who the best college mascot was, and unsurprisingly, the Duck was featured prominently.

But he is joined by an interesting collection of live and suited mascots. The Duck is joined by another representative of the Pac-12 in the list, but perhaps not an obvious choice. There’s no Benny Beaver, Sparky the Sun Devil, or not even the Stanford Tree was good enough to make the cut.

Here’s the list, according to NFL.com, of the Top 10 mascots out there. You decide if they got it right or not.

The Oregon Duck and Harry the Husky still roast each other, despite canceled Oregon-Washington game

One of the best parts of the Oregon-Washington rivalry continues.

Saturday’s football game between Oregon and Washington was canceled, the Pac-12 announced Thursday, because the Huskies don’t have enough players available to play with positive COVID-19 cases and subsequent contact tracing.

But one of the best elements of this Pac-12 rivalry game is continuing on with The Oregon Duck still doing what he does best: Roasting Washington’s Harry The Husky on Twitter. This is just so much fun.

And even though there’s no football game, The Duck reminded everyone that Oregon and Washington are scheduled to play each other in basketball Saturday night in Seattle — the Ducks are 8.5-point favorites — and that’s a good enough excuse for him to tease the Huskies’ mascot.

To his credit, Harry The Husky has had some pretty great jabs so far as well. But, as we’ve noted in previous seasons, The Duck’s jokes and insults are undefeated.

So here’s a look at some of the highlights from The Oregon Duck’s and Harry The Husky’s trash-talking. (They’re firing off tweets at each other every few minutes, so we’ll update this post.)