It's Official:

[AUChizad]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/10/ole_miss_picks_new_mascot_rebe.html

Ole Miss picks new mascot: Rebel Black Bear
Published: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 12:45 PM
  Jon Solomon -- The Birmingham News

Introducing the Rebel Black Bear, the new on-field mascot for the Ole Miss Rebels. (The Associated Press)
It's official: The Rebel Black Bear is Ole Miss' new on-field mascot, the school announced today. The bear was the first choice of 62 percent of university stakeholders -- faculty, students, alumni and season-ticket holders -- who voted online. The other finalists: Rebel Land Shark (56 percent) and Hotty Toddy (42 percent).

The bear will replace Colonel Reb, who was banished from the sidelines about seven years ago as part of the university's attempt to distance itself from symbols of the Old South.

The co-chair of the selection committee told The Memphis Commercial-Appeal that the black bear "has a Mississippi connection, is timeless, appeals to children, is unique to the SEC and fits the other characteristics established in the initial focus group."

The bear idea was inspired by books from Oxford's Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner. In Faulkner's "The Bear," there is a black bear that symbolizes pride, strength and toughness.

So if you see a bear in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night or in Oxford in a couple weeks for Auburn-Ole Miss, now you know why. It's Bears vs. Elephants and Bears vs. Tigers for state teams in the weeks to come.

Maybe I could use the red hat to go as a burley bearded homosexual as the Ole Miss mascot.

[Buzz Killington]

Sat'day night...it's gon be Bear on Bear!

[Tiger Wench]

[wreckingball]

More like:

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

[Lurking Tiger]

"Introducing the Rebel Black Bear, the new on-field mascot for the Ole Miss Rebels. (The Associated Press)
It's official: The Rebel Black Bear is Ole Miss' new on-field mascot, the school announced today. The bear was the first choice of 62 percent of university stakeholders -- faculty, students, alumni and season-ticket holders -- who voted online. The other finalists:Rebel Land Shark (56 percent)and Hotty Toddy (42 percent)."

Mississippi higher public education can bend the normal laws of math and physics that apply to the rest of us.

[AUChizad]

"Introducing the Rebel Black Bear, the new on-field mascot for the Ole Miss Rebels. (The Associated Press)
It's official: The Rebel Black Bear is Ole Miss' new on-field mascot, the school announced today. The bear was the first choice of 62 percent of university stakeholders -- faculty, students, alumni and season-ticket holders -- who voted online. The other finalists:Rebel Land Shark (56 percent)and Hotty Toddy (42 percent)."

Mississippi higher public education can bend the normal laws of math and physics that apply to the rest of us.

What? 8/12ths voted for the bear...

[Token]

[RWS]

And these motherfuckers were laying down all kinds of smack earlier in the week?

[boartitz]

High Yeller. That's not BLACK at all.

[BZ770]

I'd went it this direction.

[djsimp]

I'd went it this direction.

She can be my mascot.

[War Eagle!!!]

I'd went it this direction.

Thong bottom? Yeah...I am going to need to see proof please...

[Saniflush]

They will always be the

to me