UNC logo question

[rock55choc]

OK , what about North Carolina using a goat in their logos .... whats the connection between that and Tarheel ?? I have a guess ... Idnt it something like Carolins soldiers once resorted to eating their shoes .... and s goat will eat anything ?? Am I way off base on that guess??

[sc49erfan15]

It's actually a ram, and a simple search on the Tar Heels' website produced this:

Rameses has been Carolina's mascot since 1922--well, not the same ram, but you get the idea. That year, UNC's best football player was Jack Merritt, who was known as "The Battering Ram." Vic Huggins, the head cheerleader, had come up with the idea. It's just a good thing ol' Vic wasn't cheering for the Heels when Billy Cunningham was around or there might be a kangaroo prowling the Smith Center sidelines.

[Joshawaggie]

OK , what about North Carolina using a goat in their logos .... whats the connection between that and Tarheel ?? I have a guess ... Idnt it something like Carolins soldiers once resorted to eating their shoes .... and s goat will eat anything ?? Am I way off base on that guess??

eating their own shoes?!?

[creativelysain]

good lord

[Ben5]

All I gotta say is:

GO TO HELL CAROLINA GO TO HELL!

Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

[Survival79]

Carolins soldiers once resorted to eating their shoes .... and s goat will eat anything

This story > Real story

[HatManTC]

the school has actually gone away from this logo in the last couple of years. they have been using the Foot and interlocking NC on the majority of their merchandise

[DG_ThenNowForever]

the school has actually gone away from this logo in the last couple of years. they have been using the Foot and interlocking NC on the majority of their merchandise

It's a complete shame too. Remember the early 90s, when you couldn't get a piece of college apparel without the school's mascot all over it? I especially remember UNC's ram (but it does look more like a goat), the Duke Blue Devil, and the U's Sebastian.

And, of course, everything was just ugly.

[bear69designs]

I've been told by Western North Carolinians that the ram is analogous to a mountain goat, which is sure-footed in the same way that a Tarheel is (with Tarheel being a reference to the stobborn refusal of North Carolina troops to flee battlefields during the War Between the States [or a disparaging remark about a potential solution to the same troops tendency to flee {which version you adhere to is probably determined by which side of the Grits line you live on}]).

If you can weave your way through that picket fence of punctuation you can decide whether that version is full of $%!# or not...

[VitaminD]

I've been told by Western North Carolinians that the ram is analogous to a mountain goat...

You were told wrong. The animal mascot is a ram. Read the 2nd post in this thread, it is the official story passed down through history. UNC also trots out a live ram mascot (Rameses) for football games, with the horns painted Carolina Blue. When I was a senior at Carolina, someone stole and hacked up Rameses. He was since replaced. Gruesome stuff.

[The Danimal]

I was also at UNC when Rameses was killed...I think they determined that somebody actually did it for food, since the poor thing was found at the farm where he lived with a big chunk missing out of his shoulder.