When the school got rid of “From Dixie with Love” from the band’s playlist in 2009, the Ku Klux Klan showed up.

OXFORD – In a burst of fog and confetti blasting from all sides, the figure sauntered onto the stage.
And why oh why is his mask so detailed? 3, NC State QB Leary breaks leg, out four to eight weeks. Ole Miss' new mascot, Tony the Landshark, makes his debut at the "Meet the Rebels" fan day at the Manning Center in Oxford on Saturday. The story behind Tony is actually pretty endearing. It's time to drop it. Why are his eyes pitch black?

“We wanted this to be a landshark that had never been seen before, a character who had never been seen before, and put a whole lot of detail and thought and intentionality into the design of the Landshark.”. We bring sports news that matters to your inbox, to help you stay informed and get a winning edge.

He’s threatened that the league could ban SEC championship events from being held in Mississippi unless its flag is changed, applying the kind of pressure that a college sports-crazed state can’t ignore. One of the first things the Landshark launch committee decided on was the Landshark's personality.

The small children seated in the front rows jumped up and engulfed him. And so the era of the Landshark mascot officially began. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. 6-keys: media/spln/collegefootball/reg/free/stories, at Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only. Please be polite. You can make an argument that sharks are rebels of the sea.

It dumped Colonel Reb, a caricature of a gentlemanly Southern plantation owner that used to roam the sidelines as its mascot. The ugly truth why college football needs a season amidst the pandemic.

But if this is where the SEC is going to draw its line in the sand, if this is the moment when the league is going to wade into a gnarly, emotional political mess that is intertwined with a never-ending love for Confederate nostalgia, how can it not address the fact that one of its very own members is called the Ole Miss Rebels? Ole Miss unveiled its new on-field Landshark mascot Saturday at Meet the Rebels Day in the Manning Center. This might be the first mascot to truly give the Pelicans a run for their money in terms of scary appearances and not in an intimidating way. Typed comments will be lost if you are not logged in. But the majority bounded up to the shark-man without hesitation. His smile is insanely sinister.

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The Black Bear was at least named Rebel, so there was a stretch of a connection there. In what might mark the first time in history a Change.Org petition has paid off -- even indirectly -- Ole Miss unveiled "Landshark Tony" on Saturday. This isn’t ancient history. After Tony's grand entrance Saturday, one small child sniffled as if she wasn’t sure if she should cry or not. It looks, and I imagine feels, like what a shark feels like.”. © 2004-2020 CBS Interactive.

People associated with Ole Miss will argue that these incidents are largely instigated by students from out of state or people that have nothing to do with the school.

(Photo: Bruce Newman, AP), “It doesn’t look like a typical mascot,” Ole Miss cheer coach and mascot coordinator Ryan O’Connor said.

According to its website, RARE Design has worked with numerous professional sports teams, including the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves.

That is absolutely awful. So the Southeastern Conference has thrown down the gauntlet in the direction of Mississippi, whose state flag is an embarrassing relic that stubbornly honors American traitors who do not deserve it.

It’s time for fans to stop playing footsie with the school’s often terrible past and start thinking about how Black athletes will view that branding of “Rebels” in 15 years, in 30 years once this country finally and uniformly treats the losers of the Civil War as losers. Fans were able to get autographs from Rebel football, soccer, volleyball, rifle and spirit squads during the event. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. But on Saturday most of Tony’s duties consisted of taking pictures with fans.
Mississippi Clarion Ledger, Ole Miss' new mascot, Tony the Landshark, makes his debut at the "Meet the Rebels" fan day at the Manning Center in Oxford on Saturday. LandsharkMascot.com; OXFORD, Miss. All Rights Reserved. It’s obvious what draws them. He looks like a rejected design from "Street Sharks," and they were also horrifying.

There was an on-campus protest in 2012 the night President Barack Obama was re-elected.

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