File:JB Kobask aka Thunder.jpg

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Description Photo of the Arabian stallion JB Kobask, the first horse to serve as "Thunder" the live animal mascot for the Denver Broncos football team
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Unattributed, published by Arabian Horse World Magazine, captioned "Former Denver Broncos mascot “Thunder,” JB Kobask (GG Jabask x Kom-Nitah), and Ann Judge Wegener at the Arabian Horse Celebration in Denver, Colorado, in August 2004."
Source (WP:NFCC#4) http://www.arabianhorseworld.com/live/library/2012/10/jj-kobask/
Date of publication 2004 photo, source published October 2012 and republished here attribution "AHA archives", previously published in 2009 here; these three links are all known-available original publications of the image under legal copyright.
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Thunder (mascot)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) Section of article dedicated to the horse JB Kobask, who was the first horse and the only stallion to serve as "Thunder", used to illustrate appearance of animal.
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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The image will be used in the body of the article in the section dedicated to JB Kobask only. Needed to show that even though he was a gray horse with a completely white hair coat he looked different from his successors, both in visible facial markings as well as stance and demeanor.
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Other information The horse, JB Kobask is significant because he was the first horse to portray "Thunder". He looks different from his two successors, the image shows his different markings and shows how, as a stallion standing with a proud stance and high arched neck, he had a flashy and dynamic "presence". (His successors were both geldings)
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