Is that the mascot that Berlusconi said is different because the Italian one has a moustache and wears clothing?
“Is that the mascot that Berlusconi said is different because the Italian one has a moustache and wears clothing?”
The one where he publicly admitted he got the idea from a college basketball team in Kentucky.
“There was this puppet called Big Red who was the mascot of an American basketball team. The team is Western Kentucky University,” Ricci is quoted as saying. “I’ve wrested him from a life of hardships and humiliations. He was a clown in Kentucky; he’s the biggest TV star here, in Italy … Big Red became Gabibbo.”
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/italian-judge-rules-against-big-red/article_639f217b-ccdf-540e-8e87-fb613d5ae4e4.html