Please Welcome... The Ole Miss Bears!

peed my pants I was laughing so hard when I read the google alert on this fiasco.
Just add this to the list, to thank GOD for, allowing me to be an Auburn Tiger!

WAR EAGLE!

That’s the way most PC moves go. The first thing asked to be removed is never enough.
There are always more and newer demands.

Also the election was a sham. Many of the students wanted the Colonel on the ballot, but the administration would not allow it. I know kids there and they said they would not vote since the fix was already in and that their voice would not be heard.

They might as well do away with the name " Rebels " as well. Hey – that sounds like a good idea, someone tell the president.

1. We are the Ole Miss Rebels. Our mascot is a bear. Similar to Alabama being the Tide with an Elephant as the mascot. Similar to Tennessee being the Volunteers with a blue tick hound as the mascot. Similar to Auburn being the Tigers with a live eagle that flies around the stadium.

2. Auburn travels to Oxford. Show up to Jordan-Hare on October 30th and enjoy the game.

3. Ole Miss was actually the Flood unitl the 1930s. Only then did we become the Rebels. Col Reb wasn’t the mascot until 1979. In 25 years, the bear will have been the mascot longer than Col Reb.

4. Apparently you haven’t read Faulkner. That makes you the uneducated one.

5. Apparently you also never studied Teddy Roosevelt in history. The Teddy Bear comes from his hunting of the Black Bears of Mississippi. And yes, the bears are not actually jet black. They, like some black people, are more of a dark brown.

Thanks for playing.

Is it debuting this year?

I do have to say that the bear is an odd choice..and I did laugh in disbelief also, but I also understand to some point ColRebsLastBreath’s comparison. The other schools get away with it because of tradition and time. We’ve just gotten used to the bluetick in Knoxville or the elephant in T-town.

Imagine this….Instead of the elephant it would be funny as hell to see them carrying around a bucket of water!

I thought Admiral Ackbar was awesome

once we quit snickering. C’mon Ole Miss, pull it together!

With the PC police constantly patrolling, what else could they do? Apparently any reference to the South is forbidden. Back when I was at Jacksonville State and in the Marching Southerners, there was a movement to make us stop playing “Dixie” at football games.They still play it. I wasn’t at the game. Did they play it at Ole Miss?

that PETA was trying to get the Green Bay Packers to change their name to something like"Beer Brewers". They were mad because the Packers name came from a meat packing company that helped first form the team. Crazy!

…..some getting used to. After all, two of the teams Auburn’s played this year used to be called the “Indians.” Now, they’re the Warhawks and the Red Wolves.

…..I’m snickering a bit too, because it does sound odd after referring to Ole Miss as the Rebels for a lifetime. On the other hand, I applaud the decision. The Ole Miss administration is simply trying to align their values with the core principles of this county. As a public school, they simply should not be using a mascot and theme that a significant chunk of the populace finds offensive.

…..One of the greatest things to come out of the creation and evolution of the USA is tolerance, and all-inclusiveness. As a nation composed nearly entirely of people who crossed an ocean and their descendants, we’ve broken the cycle of constant fighting over limited resources and hatred of strangers. “We hold these truths to be self evident” “All men are created equal.” This attitude continues to spread world-wide, and the USA is where it was born. The reason the USA is the greatest country in the world is because as a society we manage to utilize and celebrate the unique talents from a racially and culturally diverse population.