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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1 EDSBS » Archive » CURIOUS INDEX, 7/2/2008 // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:54 am
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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…
4 A Below Average Photo Essay: Croom’s Last Stand « Friends of the Program // Nov 30, 2008 at 6:19 pm
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6 The Great Billboard Wars of Mississippi Wage On - Friends of the Program // Jan 11, 2012 at 3:14 pm
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