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Ole Miss Students Have Voted 'Yes' To Changing Mascot To Landshark

by Larry Leo

October 1, 201724 Comments

Ole Miss Students Have Voted 'Yes' To Changing Mascot To Landshark

Beth Hall-USA TODAY Sports

This past Friday Ole Miss' Associated Student Body announced that 81-percent of the 4,100 students voted to change their mascot from the current black bear to the Landshark. Per The Daily Mississippian...

quote:
“We hope this will be a catalyst for a transition toward a new mascot, the Landshark,” the announcement read. “We believe that affection for the Landshark serves as a symbolic rallying point, something lovingly embraced among students from a variety of backgrounds- races, religions, creeds, or political affiliations. To that end, it is clear that the student body believes the Landshark deserves to represent our school’s spirit on the field, in the Grove, and in our hearts.”

Should this happen?

(CollegeSpun)

Filed Under: Ole Miss Sports

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Spelt it rong•91 months

Vitter just confirmed. They are now officially tLandsharks lol.

JazzyJeff•91 months

Just let its mascot be a fat, blonde white chick and call it a mud shark.

rebob•91 months

How about the Banana bears?

Stellyonidas•91 months

Great white shark. So racist

SoulGlo•91 months

the white man was land shark. Still racist. Not impressed.

Mouche337•91 months

A lot of college programs are built on traditions. But all traditions have to start somewhere. I think it is a cool name, but it will take some time to get used to. A few generations before it becomes the norm. I know them as the rebels, that's what I've always known them as, and that's who I'll always know them as.

BigBlueAU•91 months

"His mama named him Cassius Clay! Imma call him Clay!" lol

narddogg81•91 months

They missed the opportunity to just give George Lucas a pile of money, leave the name the rebels and change the mascot to admiral Akbar.

Slackaveli•91 months

lololol @ ole miss; they dont even have even balls to keep their ole colonel mascot. But KFC can come on tv in a foghorn leghorn accident screaming "Finger lickin', finger lickin', finger lickin'" all throughout the football games during commercials. Unbelievable that a stae full of good ole baws would cave to something they hold so dear just b/c of the sjw, smfh

RECConspiracy•91 months

Because Colonel Sanders was a real person...not a slaveowner or a plantation owner. Hard to call a person playing a role of someone that actually existed racist, unless that person himself was a racist.

Bestbank Tiger•91 months

Considering the local species is the LOUISIANA black bear, it makes sense to change. But a catfish would be better. It honors the Mississippi River and the fact that Ole Miss is a bottom feeder.

JackieTreehorn•91 months

How humiliating. Didn't the beaver steal that from some shitty Jimmy Buffett song?

DeafVallyBatnR•91 months

What about the thousands of alumni who don't want this to happen.

Slackaveli•91 months

Slackaveli00 lololol @ ole miss admin; they dont even have enough balls to keep their ole colonel mascot. But KFC can come on tv in a foghorn leghorn accident screaming "Finger lickin', finger lickin', finger lickin'" all throughout the football games during commercials. Unbelievable that a state full of good ole baws would cave to something they hold so dear just b/c of the sjw, smfh

bigDgator•91 months

What about the swim teams?

Deltatiger•91 months

They don't have a swim team

Lordofwrath88•91 months

they don't have a swim team? geez how poor are they?

Azkiger•91 months

Too close with "landed sharks", Jim McElwain is already undressing.

tWildcat•91 months

Should've changed names to the white bears.

diat150•91 months

Black bear lives matter

Godfather1•91 months

Just when I thought they couldn't get gay things up any more in Oxford...

saint tiger225•91 months

Just when I think things can't get any worse for LSU as a program, I read stuff like this and I'm always reminded "Thank God for Mississippi". We could always be worse off, even after a loss to Troy. At least we don't want to change our mascot to the freaking landsharks. Lolol.

foj1981•91 months

It will be fine until BLM deems it racist

LSU Coyote•91 months

That poor black bear..