Pistol Pete suspended for tonight's game

Pistol Pete, the mascot for New Mexico State University, will not be on the sidelines tonight as the Aggies open conference play in basketball. This is a result of the incident from last year's WAC playoffs where he got into an altercation with Utah State's mascot Big Blue. Basically, someone offered Big Blue $100 to try to rip off the fake mustache of Pistol Pete during a timeout. Pistol Pete responded by chasing down, attacking Big Blue and, well, you can watch the video for yourself. Since Utah State won that game, Pistol Pete's season ended and the suspension was held over until their first league game of this season which, as luck would have it, is against Utah State. Fear not Aggie fans, even though Pete will not be patrolling the sidelines, DJ Downs, the student who portrays Pete, will still be in attendance and they plan on passing out fake mustaches to the first 5,000 fans in attendance. No word if Big Blue has been offered a $100 bounty on any of those.

The game is live tonight at 9PM on ESPNU.