Five hundred thirty-five pushups

That’s one for every voting member of Congress. It’s also how many Bucky Badger did while his football team put 83 points up on Indiana.

They scored and they scored and they scored some more. And it poured and it poured and it poured some more.

Saturday’s twin deluge of points and rain may have pained the Indiana Hoosiers and their faithful. But the real hurt fell to the forearms, biceps and noses of the three Bucky Badgers at Wisconsin’s 83-20 massacre of Indiana at Camp Randall.

“It was pretty gross inside the suit,” said Sam Rhyan, a senior Bucky from Mequon. “Definitely not too pretty.”

I wonder how you clean the inside of the head? Can you just wipe it out and spray it?

Rhyan and fellow mascots Sam Albiero and Bret Watson…

…good thing it was more than one of them…

…took turns muscling through 535 pushups … while weighted down by a 35-pound Bucky head … and wearing Bucky suits soaked with rain and sweat … as 80,000 fans chanted out each rep.

“I couldn’t feel my arms,” Rhyan said. “It was pure Jell-o.”

And then they scored again.

“When you’re standing there in that suit, it’s like, ‘Are you serious?’” he said.

Don’t be such a baby, man…

Cheerleaders dig muscles.