Friday, February 26, 2010  We Can't Repel Mockery Of That
Magnitude  Chaste Chaddd got wind of Ole Miss's drive for a new
mascot, and decided the rest of the SEC should probably get
their own Star Wars characters as well. One of my faves on
Chaddd's list:   I remember some purists were upset that George
Lucas used a bunch of three-foot furballs to help defeat the
Empire in Return of the Jedi. Their reasoning was those little
guys, cute as they were, wouldn’t stand a chance against a
legion of battle-hardened Stormtroopers. But folks didn’t think
Mississippi State had much of a chance against Ole Miss this
year either, and how’d that turn out? That being said, State
fans hate it when you pet them and try to take them home.
Personally, as much as I approve of the drive to replace Colonel
Rebel with Admiral Ackbar (hey, Mississippi does have a
coastline--just a really small one), if we were going for
verisimilitude in mascots here, Ole Miss football would be
accurately represented by one of these:  Sunday, Febr