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 for 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, happily firing up the crowd of pregame revelers, some of whom playfully threw fresh apples and other produce from the local farmers’ market his way.