PigskinPat 2,579 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 How do they expect anyone to take them seriously after this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/ftw.usatoday.com/2018/08/ole-miss-rebels-new-mascot-landshark-tony-photo-reaction-football/amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auburnphan 6,050 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Did they even try? What a disaster. So ole miss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUBwins 10,074 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 34 minutes ago, PigskinPat said: How do they expect anyone to take them seriously after this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/ftw.usatoday.com/2018/08/ole-miss-rebels-new-mascot-landshark-tony-photo-reaction-football/amp HAHAHAHA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbird 60,491 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 It makes you wonder which ones were so bad that this is what beat them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubearcat 2,137 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 I don’t want to hear another fan/person say anything about AUburn being Tigers but cheering War Eagle. I mean, these guys are Rebel Black Bear Sharks for crying out loud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJCrawford 1,568 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 That makes me think of the Burger King mascot king with the weird head. Really creeps me out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigskinPat 2,579 Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 12 hours ago, aubearcat said: I don’t want to hear another fan/person say anything about AUburn being Tigers but cheering War Eagle. I mean, these guys are Rebel Black Bear Sharks for crying out loud! Not to mention the ones that yell “roh tahd!” and have an elephant for a mascot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowebb11 9,314 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 I dislike Ole Miss as much as any team in the SEC, largely because of desperate measures for relevance like this. Land sharks my eye. They are Blue Gills at best. WDE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUld fAUx@ 2,584 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 13 hours ago, aubearcat said: I don’t want to hear another fan/person say anything about AUburn being Tigers but cheering War Eagle. I mean, these guys are Rebel Black Bear Sharks for crying out loud! Rebels without a.... uh, thematic consistency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgufcm 4,096 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 They’re going all the way on this one. They’re spotting new all white unis at some point this year, calling them the great white uniform or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbird 60,491 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 I've never heard of the iron head species of shark before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle 9,064 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 ? oh the shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle-1 3,821 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 If they no longer have the cajones to call themselves the rebels they should just shut the place down. Sick of this political correctness crap, and the erasure of history, and culture. That's my opinion, and I really do not care about anyone else's. University Greys (or Grays) were Company A of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Greys served in many of the most famous and bloody battles of the war. The rifle company joined the 11th Infantry at its inception on May 4, 1861 after Mississippiseceded from the Union. Their name "University Greys" derived from the gray color of the men's uniforms and from the fact that almost all of the Greys were students at the University of Mississippi. Nearly the entire student body (135 men) enlisted; only four students reported for classes in fall 1861, so few that the university closed temporarily. The most famous engagement of the University Greys was at Pickett's Chargeduring the Battle of Gettysburg, when the Confederates made a desperate frontal assault on the Union entrenchments atop Cemetery Ridge. The Greys penetrated further into the Union position than any other unit, but at the terrible cost of sustaining 100% casualties—every soldier was either killed or wounded. After Gettysburg, the depleted Greys were merged with Company G (the "Lamar Rifles"). The unit continued to fight until the last days of the war. The story of the University Grays is memorialized in an opera composed by Dr. Arthur Kreutz who was Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi using text from the book of the same name by Zoe Lund Schiller. The opera was published by Ricordi of New York in 1961. A copy of the score resides in the library of the Northern Illinois University. The opera was given its first performance in 1961 at the University of Mississippi under the auspices of the Department of Music. Notice I had a couple of face palm reactions to my post about my feelings on the University of Mississippi throwing away their proud history of gallantry, and sacrifice. I hope neither of the two of you have an ancestor who sacrificed themselves in that war, as I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boisnumber1 2,818 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Eagle-1 said: If they no longer have the cajones to call themselves the rebels they should just shut the place down. Sick of this political correctness crap, and the erasure of history, and culture. That's my opinion, and I really do not care about anyone else's. Silly now to try to hang on to anything Rebels imo. They've already bowed to the pressure. They should have gone ahead with some reasonable 100% change, instead of this nonsense they've been trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randman5000 4,226 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Dumber than a bag of hammer heads.. ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jAUSon 2,836 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Analogy: Shark is to land as Ole Miss is to meaningful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aujeff11 6,243 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 5 hours ago, boisnumber1 said: Silly now to try to hang on to anything Rebels imo. They've already bowed to the pressure. They should have gone ahead with some reasonable 100% change, instead of this nonsense they've been trying. I have an old Shoneys football from the ‘90s that shows all the old time SEC logos prior to the recent expansion. It’s becoming more and more a treasure every day. That was the time when I became an Auburn fan too so there’s that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr82be 14,423 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 8/11/2018 at 6:58 PM, PigskinPat said: How do they expect anyone to take them seriously after this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weagl1 1,782 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Oh man they can’t be serious. That is pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr82be 14,423 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 If I was Jimmy Buffett I would be changing the name of my beer or suing someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShocksMyBrain 9,362 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I live about 45 minutes from Oxford and interact with Ole Miss fans on a daily basis. Colonel Reb is still alive and kicking. He may not be their official mascot anymore, but he will always be the fans’ official mascot. I have literally never seen anyone wearing a Black Bear or Landshark logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,147 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Should have just gone with Admiral Ackbar and had done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triangletiger 1,599 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Saw this on the TigerDroppings Fark Board. Made me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Got a friend who is OM grad and was kidding him today.....the thought all the names were funny and apparently someone has made a hat with all the names embroidered on it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigeraddikt 1,600 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 8/12/2018 at 8:46 AM, PigskinPat said: Not to mention the ones that yell “roh tahd!” and have an elephant for a mascot. Big Al's flaccid cloth trunk has always bugged me. What would it take to pack a little structure to that thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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