Ole Miss Fans Look To Build Colonel Reb Statue To Fight The Man

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.

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.