As the UNC team preps for the Final Four, the Tar Heels family got a little bigger. Tar Heels family grows as mascot Rameses has two new lambs | Sporting News Skip to main content ...

Rameses, a Dorset ram, serves as the live mascot at UNC football games. WUNC reporter and Tar Heel super fan Will Michaels tagged along for the recent game against Duke.

Photo by Kennedy Cox / The Daily Tar Heel UNC mascot Rameses poses for a portrait during the football game against UVA in Kenan Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

Rameses, the mascot with the can't miss blue horns, will also be new. According to a report in The Daily Tar Heel Friday , North Carolina's 18th Rameses mascot died Thursday evening of natural causes.

UNC may have the Tar Heel nickname, ... Rameses the First was shipped from Texas in time for a university pep rally on Nov. 8, 1924 ahead of a game vs. the Virginia Military Institute.

UNC’s mascot is a ram named Rameses. Technically, ... In 2015, the Tar Heels debuted Rameses Junior, a kid-friendly mascot for those who find Rameses a little too scary.

Photo by Kennedy Cox / The Daily Tar Heel UNC mascot Rameses poses for a portrait during the football game against UVA in Kenan Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

After the Tar Heels won the game, Rameses and his descendants have been fixtures at UNC football games ever since. During the 1987-1988 basketball season, a costumed ram, also named Rameses was ...

Here's the history behind the North Carolina Tar Heels and their mascot. ... UNC had the live animal Rameses - yes, an actual ram - attending football games starting in 1924.

In 2015, the Tar Heels debuted Rameses Junior, a kid-friendly mascot for those who find Rameses a little too scary. Help me welcome RJ (Rameses Junior) to the #TarHeelFamily . pic.twitter.com ...