Iran Nukes...What Say You?

[Snaggletiger]

Keep hatin' on the Dookies.  Coach K will just keep hangin' more banners.  BTW, love the powder blue uni's. My neighbor and his friend have a Dodge Intrepid the same color.

[Tarheel]

Keep hatin' on the Dookies.  Coach K will just keep hangin' more banners.  BTW, love the powder blue uni's. My neighbor and his friend have a Dodge Intrepid the same color.

I'm just going to sit down and shut up.  After last season I've got no bragging rights other than saying when Carolina has a 'building year' it really is a building year not an excuse for continued bad performance.

By the way it's called "Carolina Blue" (I understand you infidels not being able to get that right)...NOT powder blue...powder blue is teh ghey.

[GH2001]

I'm just going to sit down and shut up.  After last season I've got no bragging rights other than saying when Carolina has a 'building year' it really is a building year not an excuse for continued bad performance.

By the way it's called "Carolina Blue" (I understand you infidels not being able to get that right)...NOT powder blue...powder blue is teh ghey.

This man knows....Caroline Blue! I have a UNC Basketball Shirt I wear when I visit NC that is completely Carolina Blue with white writing. Love it.

Remember- Duke had a building year last year! And look what happened this year. Kent, Duke and UNC reload and adjust - every year. When Kentucky has a good coach anyway.

[Snaggletiger]

I'm just going to sit down and shut up.  After last season I've got no bragging rights other than saying when Carolina has a 'building year' it really is a building year not an excuse for continued bad performance.

By the way it's called "Carolina Blue" (I understand you infidels not being able to get that right)...NOT powder blue...powder blue is teh ghey.

Spot on...with the powder blue.   

Quick story on the powder blue.  I said that because on my 17th birthday, my dad bought me a car.  The man bought me a car.  Thrilled, right?  I couldn't believe he did that until I walked outside, only to find....a powder blue Chevrolet Chevette.  Are...you....fuckin'...kidding ...me?  Total sticker price, brand new..$3,800.00.  No air..but a kickin' vent.  Plus, an A/M radio that actually worked.  Did I mention it was baby blue? I don't care how hard you try, you can't rub that shit out.

Like I said earlier, when the national championship is between Butler and a bunch of 6'7" white boys, we're not talking clash of the titans here.

[Saniflush]

I'm just going to sit down and shut up.  After last season I've got no bragging rights other than saying when Carolina has a 'building year' it really is a building year not an excuse for continued bad performance.

By the way it's called "Carolina Blue" (I understand you infidels not being able to get that right)...NOT powder blue...powder blue is teh ghey.

It is definitely Carolina Blue.


I still can't figure out why they have a goat for a mascot though?

[Tarheel]

Spot on...with the powder blue.   

Quick story on the powder blue.  I said that because on my 17th birthday, my dad bought me a car.  The man bought me a car.  Thrilled, right?  I couldn't believe he did that until I walked outside, only to find....a powder blue Chevrolet Chevette.  Are...you....phukin'...kidding ...me?  Total sticker price, brand new..$3,800.00.  No air..but a kickin' vent.  Plus, an A/M radio that actually worked.  Did I mention it was baby blue? I don't care how hard you try, you can't rub that poop out.

Like I said earlier, when the national championship is between Butler and a bunch of 6'7" white boys, we're not talking clash of the titans here.

Good times!  That IS a few steps below my gold (with black vinyl interior) 1975 Mustang Ghia.  You can't hide money.

[Tarheel]

It is definitely Carolina Blue.


I still can't figure out why they have a goat for a mascot though?

Rameses is a Ram.  A Ram.  Not a goat.

Not nearly as great a story as the War Eagle but it is what it is...

For nearly 70 years the mascot of North Carolina's football team has been a ram. Since Carolina's nickname is Tar Heels, it might seem strange to have a ram as a mascot. It is. But, there is a good explanation. It's offered by Vic Huggins, Carolina's head cheerleader back in 1924.

"In 1924 school spirit was at a peak," Huggins once explained. "But something seemed to be missing. One day it hit me. State had a wolf. What Carolina needed was a symbol."

Two years earlier the Tar Heels had posted a brilliant 9-1 record. The star of that 1922 team was a bruising fullback named Jack Merritt. Merritt was nicknamed "the battering ram" for the way he plunged into lines. It seemed natural to Huggins to link a mascot with Merritt's unusual sobriquet.

"Charlie Woollen, the athletic business manager at that time, agreed with the idea and gave us $25 to purchase a fitting mascot," said Huggins.

Rameses the First was shipped in from Texas, arriving just in time to be introduced at a pep rally before the VMI game. Complete with a monogram blanket on his back, Rameses helped make the pep rally one of the school's greatest.

Then the ram was taken to Emerson Field where Carolina was an underdog to a strong VMI team. But, for three quarters the Tar Heels battled the visitors to a scoreless tie.

Late in the fourth period Carolina's Bunn Hackney was called upon to attempt a field goal. Before taking the field he stopped to rub Rameses' head for good luck.

Seconds later Hackney's 30-yard dropkick sailed between the goalposts, giving the Tar Heels a 3-0 victory and a legendary mascot.

Tar Heels rams have traveled everywhere from New York City (for the Carolina-Notre Dame game in 1949) to Jacksonville for Carolina's Gator Bowl appearances.

The story of the name Tar Heel is much better but we'll save that for another time and place.

http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/trads/unc-trads-mascot.html

[AUJarhead]

The story of the name Tar Heel is much better but we'll save that for another time and place.

So I never knew why they were called Tarheels, and had to go google.  Great mascot name.  That's why I love college sports.