Let’s have a moment of silence, please. If you don’t mind - please minimize your browser, open up your iTunes and play the “Lonely Man” song and take just a moment with me, if you don’t mind, to celebrate the life and times of Colonel Reb, who was officially dumped as the Ole Miss mascot this week.

Since his birth, he's bee.... well, really, he's ALWAYS looked old.

Of course, Colonel Ed hasn’t ALWAYS been a hard nosed representation of the always serious Southern gentlemen and, some say, Civil War veteran (come on. They’re called the Rebels. Don’t play coy with us, Ole Miss…)

What a stud...

Anyway, the school has gone ahead and asked for the students to vote on

1) If they want to replace the mascot at all, and
2.) What the new mascot should be.

I, of course, feel that not having a mascot is akin to wearing only pads on the field. Why in the world would you do so? I mean, it’s your IDENTITY. How in the world do you identify yourself without a mascot? I mean, some people may have been (understandably) upset by the Rebel mascot, but at the same time, how the heck are they going to identify you if you have NO mascot at all?

So, I present to you my proposal for the new Ole Miss mascot:

Come up with ONE Rebel more well known than this one. I challenge you. GO OLE MISS!

Rob Brown General