The University of Northern Colorado says goodbye to its mascot — We're talking about Totem Teddy ... the 20-foot-tall totem pole that inspired UNC's bear icon.

Totem Teddy stood tall and fast for years in the school's University Center ... but no more.

It's been shipped off to its rightful owner ... the Tlinget Indian Nation up in Alaska.

Among those with mixed emotions about Totem Teddy's departure is a retired UNC archivist:

Former UNC archivist Mary Linscome.

The totem pole is the family crest of the Bear Clan of the Tlingit Nation. It was given as a gift to the Greeley campus by an alumnus back in 1914.

Native Americans recently got wind of its presence here in Colorado and requested its return under the Federal Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act.

It was packed up this past Monday and, after 89 great years in Greeley, it's en route to its ancestral home in southeastern Alaska.

The 2003 National Monopoly Championships took place aboard an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago to Philadelphia ... with the final championship game played out at an Atlantic City casino!

We talked to contestant John Meyer of Mulberry, Indiana on last week's "Ace & Friends" and checked back this week to see if he'd won:

John's results.

Fun Facts About Monopoly It was 1934, the height of the Depression, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called "the Monopoly game" to the executives at Parker Brothers. They rejected it. Darrow wasn't daunted, though. With help from a printer friend, he sold 5,000 handmade sets of the game to a Philadelphia department store. People loved it, but as demand grew, he couldn't keep up with all the orders and talked to Parker Brothers again. The rest, as they say, is history! In its first year, 1935, the Monopoly game was the best-selling game in America. Since then, more than 250 million Monopoly games have been sold and it continues to be the best-selling board game in the world. LONG GAMES • The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long — that's 70 straight days! • Longest game in a bathtub: 99 hours. • Longest game underwater: 45 days. MONOPOLY AT WAR • Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money. THE BANK • Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. • Ever wonder how much comes with a standard set? The total is $15,140 (the same amount that this year's Monopoly National Champion won in real money). • Each year, the makers of Monopoly produce more than twice as much play money as the U.S. Mint does actual money. ROLL THE DICE • The most-landed-on spaces are: Jail, Illinois Avenue, Go and the B&O Railroad.