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.

Why UNC is called the 'Tar Heels' and why their mascot is a ram. ... But well before then, UNC had the live animal Rameses - yes, an actual ram - attending football games starting in 1924.

Rameses XXII — or the 22nd version of the ram — began representing the University in 2020. “It never ceases to amaze me how people, or Tar Heel fans, just love him to death,” Basnight said .

In the commercial, Williams donned the headgear of Rameses, the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. WRAL anchor/reporter Gerald Owens sat down with Williams for a one-on-one interview.

North Carolina mascot: Rameses the Ram (Tar Heels) Nevada mascot: Alphie, Wolfie Jr. & Luna (Wolfpack) New Mexico mascot: The Lobo Northwestern mascot: Willie the Wildcat Oakland mascot: Golden ...

Rameses VI was reportedly moping "sullenly about his grazing area," the AP reported. "All day that ram has been sulky," his keeper said. "Maybe it's animal intuition.

In WRAL's Super Bowl commercial, Roy Williams donned the headgear of Rameses, the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels.