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Bowling Green, Ohio – The biggest brands of stomach care have placed them with a swag box.
He travels with a safety details and is cashing on his mercury line.
Hotels that ban animals, bend the rules when it comes.
EA Sports also made it in his video game.
Which one breakout stars can estimate that this college football season will be a cat?
Meet Pudge, 3 -year -old Foreign Shorthair Persian who is now a smooth face of bowling Green. Promoting morale in the locker room and on the shore, Pudge helped to pursue 2–1 Falcons for its best start in 11 years, harassing 23–13 Liberty on Saturday.
“Give me … Pudge! … Oh, give me a BG Dub!” – Patrick Henry (Probably)#AYZIGGY pic.twitter.com/4VRRCS7od
– BGSU Football (@bg_football) September 14, 2025
Is of pudge bowling Green Long snapper George CarlsonThose who did not know that their orange-coated companions would turn into a campus celebrity.
“He has become a part of the family,” said Green’s first year head coach Balling AD George said.
Former Tennessy Titans Star is allergic to cats, yet he also rubs Pudge’s back and guarded her with her children. Pudge has also won on George’s wife, singer Tamara Johnson-George, who is now one of his biggest fans.
Last month, the rapid growth of Pudge began for fame.
In a day after a particularly fierce practice, Carlson brought him to convenience and installed it in his locker. As Carlson’s colleagues tricked for treatment and lunch, Pudge stole the show.
“When I saw that I was a super stoke,” fullback Leo Kemp Said. “He was such a soul lifter.”
wide receiver Finn HoganWhich was already after a big social media, Posted a video Pudge with caption: “Fall camp so rough we found a locker room cat. Emotional support animals.” Instagram Reel saw 2 million times.
A few days later, Kemp uploaded Tiktok video Pudge and wrote “Y’All can have a $ 300 million facility. But do you have a locker room cat?” This attracted more than 300,000 likes, with the comments of Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings accounts, mourning that he did not think of the first locker room cat.
Pudge is going viral – and his Q rating increased.
“People just love him,” said Carlson.
Bowling Green’s marketing team felt the opportunity, offering fans a “pudge” two-game ticket package: Midfield seats to Liberty Game and Central Michigan on 18 October.
Falcons painted him during a season-opening win on Lafet on “Simba Came”. When a marketing intern picked up the pudge above his head on the sideline, the house was agitated.
Bowling Green received him an all-access pass for his week 2 trip to Cincinnati. Assistant Athletic director Taylor Jefferson wore a “Pudge Security” shirt around the Dniepert Stadium.
“I was never expecting a backseat for any kind of story from Eddie George,” Jefferson told about the 1995 Heisman Trophy winner. “But all this is now about Pudge.”
Carlson’s father, a veterinarian in Jim, McHeenry, Illinois, drove the pudge for Cincinnati. He was looking for a pet-friendly hotel. But when the team of the team learned that there was Pudge in the city, it did not allow any of his pets.
In the morning of the game, George Carlson left Pudge in his room to have breakfast with the team. But back coach coach Brian White was sent upwards to run, so the cat could rob the “championship water” with the team.
#Wake up Flying #Collegegameday #Week 2 #PUDGETHECAT #Championshipwater Great day to be a hawk! pic.twitter.com/nbzlc8i6je
– Coach Brian White (@Coachbite 7) 6 September, 2025
Comes with life allowances in the form of a cat -like finom.
Both temptations and Purina reconciled them to care packages, which were filled with delicious behavior.
Pudge recently made a meat-end-grade in the Toleado Mud Hens Minor League baseball game, and has been invited to appear at the International Cat Show and Expo in Cleveland the following month.
A garment company signed him to a Nil Deal – and Pudge shirts, hoodies and jersey have already produced more than $ 1,500 in royalty.
Before the kickoff on Saturday, Bowling Green threw a pudge tailgate party, where fans prepared for selfies.
“I am just blowing from her popularity, but she is such a good game about it,” said Jim Carlson. “Cats are usually not that social, and the fact that it is just magical.”
EA Sports added him to the college football 25, where “Pudge the Cat” gives him an increase in the ultimat team card +1 cruelty. Falcons came to know that when one of the players stumbled on the card while playing.
Hogan said, “He sent us a picture of his TV in our group chat – and he likes, ‘Uh, Pudge is in video games?” “In any way they do not put pudge in the game. We were all laughing.”
Pudge has laughed Falcons in the last few weeks. But a year ago, he helped his boss carrying through the most difficult time of his life.
Kristen, George’s mother, was one who found Pudge – although she never found how famous she would become.
In 2021, Jim and Christon traveled to Tennessee for their son’s first game with Falcons. Kristen later felt ill and thought he caught Kovid. But while treating it, doctors found something else: Stage 4 ovarian cancer.
Diagnosis was disastrous for Carlson, especially for George. After leaving for college, both were close, talking every day.
“He had a special bond,” the gym said.
Kristeon helped to make George’s dream of playing college football possible. George High School had an aggressive lineman, but knew that he would never be big for the next level. So Kristen found a trainer to teach him how to snap for a long time.
“I’ll not play here [at Bowling Green] Without him, “he said.”
George and his sister, every, grew up in a small farm. A former TV meteorologist Christon, who left his career to help the gym to help with a clinic and help his children, was always bringing home animals – goats, pigs, cats. The gym could not bring themselves to keep themselves down, their owners no longer want, so Carlson kept them too.
“I couldn’t remember a time that we never had a cat,” Jim said. “We were foster failures – we put them our whole life.”
George shared his love for cats, ie Persians with flat faces. Charging cancer, Kristen made his mission to find him. So two years ago, in a Chicago parking, she and the gym met a woman who rides a scooter, who was with a kitten in a blanket basket. It was pudge.
“His face was very funny,” said George. “When I met him, I was very happy.”
The gym worked on Pudge’s Chabbi nose to open his airways and allow it to breathe easily. Still, as Pudge flourished, Kristeon’s health deteriorated.
Last year, after Balling Green’s first Presiden practice, George saw six missed calls on his phone. He immediately called his sister back. His mother was not going to make it.
“Losing your mother … left such a big zero in your life,” Jim said.
George rejected Falcons a week later if he had the strength to play. But he remembered what his mother often said: “The purity of a cat promotes treatment.” The study suggests that a cat’s low-existing vibration can reduce a person’s stress and calm the mind. In short, Pudge helped George to find his happiness again in life.
“Every single day,” he said, “They smiled me.”
Recently, Pudge is smiling to everyone – and giving a spark to the upstart Falcons.
On Saturday, Balling Green welcomed the largest domestic crowd of over 23,000 in a decade. The students dressed in the cat’s costumes and organized the cardboard cutout of Pudge’s face.
During the first quarter timeout, Pudge was taken out for midfield in catmobile, bowling Green-a golf cart adorned with mustache, ear and claws.
Falcons are planning to bring their good fortune attraction on the road in Louisville (Noon ET, ACC network) later this week, pending heat.
“Here’s a fun energy,” Jefferson said. “We have a huge student appearance and it is partially due to pudge.”
Falcons has not won the Mac title or finished with more than seven win in a season since 2015.
But Pudge has shifted Vibe to bowling green. And Falcons has a secret secret weapon.
“He has brought me great happiness,” Carlson said. “I am very happy that he is bringing that happiness to others.”
