re: The Rebel Blackbears???

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He got his nickname Teddy for NOT shooting the lassoed bear in Mississippi. That is all people are claiming.

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Or it could just be short for Theodore......

Ole Miss Huggy Bears.

Love it!

Landshark would have been far better. Assuming it was something to do with the old SNL skits.

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For every Southern boy four­teen years old, not once but when­ever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July after­noon in 1863, the brigades are in posi­tion behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loos­ened to break out and Pickett him­self with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand prob­a­bly and his sword in the other look­ing up the hill wait­ing for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the bal­ance, it hasn’t hap­pened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that posi­tion and those cir­cum­stances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with des­per­ate and unbe­liev­able vic­tory the des­per­ate gam­ble, the cast made two years ago…
–William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

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if you are from South Louisiana, i call total bullshite......

ever hear of Dominique You and the Number 3 battery on the morning of January 8, 1815 at Chef Mentour?? That is the legend of South Louisiana and a part of the cultural difference between Louisiana and Mississippi....it's a lot better to be a winner and not a kamakasie on foot....

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Better than the polar bears.

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That right there would have been the shite! KNUT!

As much as I hate ole miss I actually feel bad for them!

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-The Black Bear has significance in Mississippi history. Ever heard where Teddy Roosevelt got his nickname or William Faulkner's "The Bear"?

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Of course the proper name in English of the subspecies of black bear that lives in Mississippi is the Louisiana Black Bear.
LINK

originally pointed out in a post on the SEC Rant.

And the Louisiana Black Bear is the the official mammal of Louisiana. LINK

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Wow hard to believe that some people really believe the bullshite that they are taught in high school history books. You really think the civil war was about slavery??? Dude newsflash it was about money and votes slavery just happened to be the issue that divided the states votes. Slave states always voted one way and non slave states voted the other and had the upper hand which eventually caused the south to succeed. You really think that white people in the north cared enough about southern slaves to get their kids killed?

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Free history lesson tonight:
1) The Civil War WAS about slavery. The professional historical community is in total agreement on this. Only a few amateurs and renegade SCV-types still repeat this mantra.
2) White people in the North cared about keeping together a nation the South was attempting to destroy. They were prepared to give their lives to defend it. And, if it got rid of the slaveocracy that threatened disunion and nullification every time the republic passed a law they didn't like, so much the better. And, lots of white people in the South agreed with them. 5,000 white Louisianians fought for the North. Many others simply sat out the war as deserters and jayhawkers. The same was true throughout the South. Many southerners were smart enough not to be fooled by the rich slaveowners and saw no reason to give their lives to protect the rich man's profits. But none of this dissent made it into the UDC version of the war that was crammed down our grandparents' throats in the 1920's.
3) Agricultural slavery would have become unprofitable due to mechanization. But slaveowners in the upper South were already seeing increased profitability by, among other things, leasing their slaves to industrial interests. The South was committed to preserving the institution for as long as possible.

But, don't take my word for it. Go enroll in Charles Royster's course on the Civil War. It will open your eyes.

Charles Royster

UC Berkley Grad. Nuff said.