A man who lives by a college football field agrees to dress up as the mascot one night for a game. The man’s friends party beforehand and then zip him up and send him on his way. The mascot is a tiger, and the man thinks about how, in the 1920s, there used to be an actual tiger that the school would rent from the zoo to walk around the field during football games. He thinks of the real tiger as a sign of strength. The man is drunk and dressed as the tiger, and he runs around. People cheer for him, and throughout the night his friends give him more drinks. He sees a woman in the audience and falls for her instantly. He dances around her and pretends to be a giant tiger. She asks him about tigers, and he begins to tell her before he gets pushed out of the way by another man. He thinks about what he would’ve told her — how there are no more tigers anymore. Anything with real strength and freedom no longer exists.