University of Mississippi loses its battle to get Admiral Ackbar as the school mascot. - Polidicks

[quote=source] Rebels Lose Admiral Ackbar! By Tony Sims September 9, 2010 | 7:00 am | Categories: People, Places In Mississippi, we take our college football very seriously. We are the birthplace of Brett Favre (University of Southern Miss), and all the Manning’s (Ole Miss). It came as huge surprise when a few students created the idea to replace the politically incorrect mascot “Colonel Reb” with Admiral Ackbar. In case you are unfamiliar with the University of Mississippi, or “Ole Miss” as we call it, they are the Rebels. Who better to lead the Rebel football team than the leader of the Rebel Alliance? Well, it does not matter anyway. Lucasfilm fired a torpedo into the exhaust of this idea even though it won a popular vote with the Ole Miss student body. ESPN does a great job telling the story in their latest commercial, below. Read More [url]http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/rebels-lose-admiral-ackbar/#ixzz0z4mOfBpc[/url] [/quote] The Commercial: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx0pTIDb-r0&feature=player_embedded[/media] All I can say is... [img]http://captionsearch.com/pix/thumb/wsz0tgm4st-t.jpg[/img] [editline]07:03PM[/editline] For those who think this is random, the Football team is the University of Mississippi Rebels.

That sucks. It would of been awesome. :saddowns:

That would have been cool.

Shit I can't think of a good pun for this one Uhh... I guess that name was a...Trap? Naw seriously though, fuck you Lucas

Fuck you lucasfilm, ruining my life. [editline]04:05PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;24718518]Shit I can't think of a good pun for this one[/QUOTE] I guess you could say, it's a rap.

Imperial propaganda.

University of Mississippi can't repel legal power of that magnitude!

That would've been awesome. It's a shame they won't be able to use him.

I don't understand why businesses have to be such dicks about things like this when it is just for fun and is clearly not going to do any harm. Hang your head in shame Lucasfilm.

Ackbar isn't funny. I don't see how random yelling out "IT'S A TRAP" has any sort of hilarity embedded in it at all.

[QUOTE=Atchell;24718900]Ackbar isn't funny. I don't see how random yelling out "IT'S A TRAP" has any sort of hilarity embedded in it at all.[/QUOTE] Nobody expected someone like you to get it

[QUOTE=David29;24718823]I don't understand why businesses have to be such dicks about things like this when it is just for fun and is clearly not going to do any harm. Hang your head in shame Lucasfilm.[/QUOTE] Why should they? It's Lucasfilm Ltd.'s intellectual property. [QUOTE=Atchell;24718900]Ackbar isn't funny. I don't see how random yelling out "IT'S A TRAP" has any sort of hilarity embedded in it at all.[/QUOTE] I agree; It's stupid as hell.

I am greatly disapointed that this didn't happen.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;24718952]Why should they? It's Lucasfilm Ltd.'s intellectual property. I agree; It's stupid as hell.[/QUOTE] The University wasn't trying to be funny. It's their team's name.

They should have let them. Good advertising for there franchise and they could have made money from the football teams merchandise.

[QUOTE=Funky Pickle;24719064]The University wasn't trying to be funny. It's their team's name.[/QUOTE] Still doesn't matter, maybe they if they had a shard of originality, they wouldn't have to go through court cases to rely upon an character of a popular film series.

They should make Lennin their mascot.

This reminds me of my high school's mascot that looks almost exactly like Captain Morgan we've had to not print merchandise because of copyright infringement, it's that bad

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;24719459]Still doesn't matter, maybe they if they had a shard of originality, they wouldn't have to go through court cases to rely upon an character of a popular film series.[/QUOTE] They are the University of Mississippi Rebels, not the Rebel Alliance you retard.

[QUOTE=Dr.C;24718926]Nobody expected someone like you to get it[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4[/media] HHAHAHAH oh god that was hilarious. Why did I not see the humor in this before? I am laughing so hard. "IT's A TRAP!!" Oh god I'm falling out of my chair laughing.

You just proved his point. You don't get the joke.

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24719851]You just proved his point. You don't get the joke.[/QUOTE] Fill me in?

At least Lucasfilms turned them down with a joke

[QUOTE=Atchell;24719984]Fill me in?[/QUOTE] Think about it for a second.

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24719705]They are the University of Mississippi Rebels, not the Rebel Alliance you retard.[/QUOTE] What the fuck does this have to do with anything? Do you lack reading comprehension?

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;24719459]Still doesn't matter, maybe they if they had a shard of originality, they wouldn't have to go through court cases to rely upon an character of a popular film series.[/QUOTE] There was no court case. Learn to read.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;24720076]What the fuck does this have to do with anything? Do you lack reading comprehension?[/QUOTE] Do you not know what you yourself wrote?

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24720074]Think about it for a second.[/QUOTE] If the joke is about chicks with dicks, it's not funny.

Kinda what separates a selfish company from a great one. I'm sure that if this was about Valve they would be all up for letting someone use one of their characters as a mascot.

Oh hell, I want Lando Calrissian as my schools mascot.