Seven years after Colonel Reb was dropped as the Ole Miss mascot and about a week after he was replaced with “Rebel Black Bear,” some Rebels fans are preparing to make their feelings known about the change by building a statue to the forgotten mascot. Right after they mail their diplomas back to the school.
Ole Miss Fans Look To Build Colonel Reb Statue To Fight The Man
The leader of the group is Fairest Boyd -- no, I’m not making up that name -- and she has a group of natives willing to forego season tickets and build the Colonel Reb statue, all in a bid to rage against the elite liberal media conspiracy against grand Southern traditions like a man dressed in a plush Colonel Sanders outfit.
As for the Colonel Reb statue, Boyd said in the message that the monument will serve as a reminder that Ole Miss once stood as a great, public university, full of southern tradition, gallantry and honor, before becoming a “generic, so-called politically correct college.”
The monument to the beleaguered mascot would have to be approved by the city of Oxford, which seems like a long shot to say the least. But Fairest Boyd and her fellow travelers have grand ideas that city leaders should endorse: A statue that “will surely become the next wonder of the world.” Which would give people a reason to come to Oxford in a year when the football team probably won’t do the trick, Colonel Reb or not.
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