Thunder Mascot Q&A

 

Published: February 18, 2009

Brian Byrnes , the Thunder’s vice president of tickets and service, discussed the five-month process of choosing a mascot.

Why a bison?

We discovered bison is the Native American name that’s indigenous to this part of the country. It was a very important distinction for us. What the process taught us was how important the word bison, that animal, actually means.

Once you chose a bison was ...


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