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The Legion of Crooms Storms the Gates of Oxford

July 1st, 2008 by Bunkie Perkins · 4 Comments

Clever marketing…WINNAR!

Sly Croom and his band of upstanding citizens fire a mid-summers salvo across the bow of Oxford, as this billboard has recently gone up on I-55, nary a stones throw from the Ole Miss campus.  What?  No catchy Winston Churchill quotes?

We await the inevitable retaliatory day-time fireworks display from the Ole Miss Sports Marketing Department. (RE: Nafoom)

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  • 2 Isaac // Jul 2, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    “stones throw away” is slighty misleading. I-55 at it’s closest point is 30 miles from Oxford. That’s like saying there’s an Ole Miss billboard in Eupora. Not that big a deal. But it is funny!

  • 3 mayers // Jul 2, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Those darn Bullies. Hell, let them enjoy it. We deserve it after what we’ve put on the sidelines for the last three years. Let this be a lesson to our administration or whoever is “calling the shots” to never let this sort of thing happen again to our program. Until we meet in November and get a chance to settle up with the Maroons (and we will), to the victor go the spoils…

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