Cursed horse statue on campus?

During my freshman year, I had always walked past the Torch Bearers statue here on campus without thinking twice about it—not even knowing the name of it until today—maybe just with a passing thought about how people always say they’re going to touch the horse in some weird place.​ That is until one member of The Stute brought up the fact that he believed the face of the statue resembled that of the Denver Broncos mascot. I personally do not see it, but the mere fact that this man brought up a football team with some relation to an article topic meant that I wanted to write about it. 

While writing this article last minute on a Monday night (in fact while watching the football game), I was telling my friend AB about what he thought about the resemblance of the Torch Bearers to the Broncos mascot. While he also seemed to disagree with seeing any resemblance, he did say that the statue reminded him of a statue located at the Denver International Airport. And when I first saw the picture of the statue, my initial reaction was to ask if this was even real. This blue horse statue, with the official name being Blue Mustang, is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen in my life. The statue’s eyes literally have red LED lights shining at you, staring deep into your soul all day and night. And though it is officially titled the Blue Mustang, the statue does hold the nickname of ‘Blucifer.’ As if I have ever considered flying to Denver anyway, knowing that Blucifer would greet me as I enter just secures the fact that I will never be flying to that area.

While this article did diverge from the initial Denver Broncos mascot debate, the topic still happened to stay within Broncos country (let’s ride), which I do consider to be a successfully on-topic article. I have concluded that the only resemblance between the Torch Bearers, the Broncos mascot, and Blucifer is that they are all horses, and I suppose horse statues can only be so different from each other. While I am extremely glad that there is no creepy resemblance between the Torch Bearers and Blucifer, I am extremely sorry for anyone who has flown in or out of Denver and has had to witness that, and I applaud all the people who work at Denver International. While I did read that the Torch Bearers is supposed to symbolize the passing of the torch of knowledge from one generation to the next, I believe that Blucifer probably symbolizes the fact that you are one step closer to a living nightmare—Denver.