 Ralphie I attended every Colorado home football game for 13 years , including all bowl games , and retired at the end of the 1978 season . The team matured too , selecting and training knowledgeable Handlers . Colorado ’ s first Ralphie achieved nationally celebrity status , and was even kidnapped in 1970 by some Air Force Academy students , as well as being named Colorado ’ s 1971 Homecoming Queen at the height of the anti @-@ establishment era . 
