Atlanta Braves
Braves' Chick-fil-A cow arrives at its new home, SunTrust Park
The Atlanta Braves' tomahawk chopping Chick-fil-A cow is home ... again.
The 18,000-pound cow — a prominent part of the Atlanta-area Chick-fil-A franchisees' campaign to urge people to eat more chicken rather than beef — was removed last month from Turner Field by crane and trucked to a New Orleans studio for refurbishing.
The 40-foot-tall, fiberglass-and-steel cow arrived wrapped at its new home in SunTrust Park this weekend. It got a new paint job. The statue's handpainted placard, will be replaced by a new digital signboard.
The cow will no longer do the chop. The arm that has done a slow version of the tomahawk chop at Turner Field for years was immobilized by the makeover.
The cow was positioned to the right of the main video board in the new Cobb ballpark, which will open in 2017 as the new home for the Braves.
