BOULDER — Finn’s eyes, wide and wonderful, twinkled under the Mile High moonlight as the young girl took the stage for the first time.

“So this,” Finn’s brother Beckett explained beneath him, softly, “is the new Ralphie.”

Finn is 4 years old. Beckett is about to graduate from CU with a degree in information sciences. The folks were in town for Family Weekend, and the soon-to-be Buffs alum wanted his baby brother to see history up close.

The pair wandered down to the field gate at section 102 Saturday night, near the away bench, a few minutes before the Buffs and Wyoming Cowboys locked horns at Folsom Field. Beckett descended with Finn on his shoulders, no easy feat, with father, Mark, spotting them a yard or so away.

“She looks pretty timid,” Beckett said of Ralphie VII. “I can’t ima

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