“After choosing between over a million pigs [or two] the Saints found one that could run like a gazelle [or waddle like a duck] and eats three small meals a day [or gorges on anything within smelling distance of its snout,]” the statement said. “Alternative Fats will enter the field each game like no other pig before him, with a white ground covering draped from his mansion-style pigpen to home plate for the billions of Saints fans to shower him with love and admiration.”

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And it continued: “Alternative Fats will be so HUUUUGE it will make all other pigs jealous. Alternative Fats will go down in the pantheon of the greatest mascot names in the history of sports and we know a thing or two about great sports mascots. Welcome to the Saints Orwellian version of Animal Farm.”

The press statement credited fan Daniel Jones of Northfield, Minn., for coming up with the clever moniker for a contest ran by the Star Tribune, which the press statement said garnered more than 4 million entrants. (Yes, the Tribune disputed that alternative fact.)

The pig’s clever name does, however, continue the string of puntastic past iterations of the Saints’ porky mascot’s name by playing off current events. Last year, for instance, the pig was Little Red Porkette, in a tribute to the late singer Prince. The year before that, the pig was named Stephen Colboar. And the list goes on: Kim Lardashian, Kris Hamphries, Brat Favre, Slumhog Millionaire, Boarack Ohama and, um, Kevin Bacon.