Everything about Rameses totally explained
Rameses is the mascot of the
North Carolina Tar Heels. There are two versions of Rameses. One is a cheerleader in a ram costume performed by a male member of the North Carolina cheerleading team at athletic events; the second a live
Horned Dorset Sheep named Rameses who attends Carolina football games with his horns painted
Carolina Blue.
Origin
The origin of a
ram as Carolina's mascot dates back to
1924. In
1922, the star fullback,
Jack Merritt, was given the nickname
the battering ram for his performance on the field.
Vic Huggins, Carolina's head cheerleader at the time, suggested the idea of a ram mascot to the athletic business manager,
Charles T. Woollen, and had the idea approved. The first appearance of Rameses was at a pep rally before the game against
Virginia Military Institute on
November 8,
1924.
Jason Ray
On
March 23 2007, Jason Ray, the cheerleader assigned to the Rameses costume, was struck by a vehicle outside the Carolina cheerleaders' hotel on Route 4 in
Fort Lee, New Jersey prior to the men's basketball team's
Sweet Sixteen game with the
University of Southern California. He died on
March 26 2007 at the
Hackensack University Medical Center as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident.
Jason was an honors student and due to graduate that May with a degree in business, and minor in religious studies. He was an
Eagle Scout, had gone on three missionary trips (
Haiti,
Honduras, and
Puerto Rico) to work with children, had visited the
Sistine Chapel, run with the bulls in
Spain, spent a summer studying in
Copenhagen,
Denmark, and was also an active member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, his church choir, and lead singer in in the band
9pm Traffic.
The
ESPN website did an E-ticket article on Jason Ray's life, and the lives of four people who were saved because he chose to become an
organ donor.
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