Someone submitted Ole Miss' Egg Bowl penalty as an option for Mississippi's new state flag
Back in late June, the Mississippi legislature voted to remove the state flag, which had featured the Confederate battle emblem for 126 years. And in the month since that historic vote, the state has opened up the design process of a new state flag to the people of Mississippi.
On Monday, more than 2,000 design submissions were released by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The rules stipulated that submissions could not include Confederate imagery, and the words "In God We Trust" must be part of the design. Other than that, it was basically fair game.
And I think we can stop the search now because we've found a surefire winner.
You may remember the wild ending to the 2019 Egg Bowl (the Miss-Mississippi State rivalry game) where Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore mimicked a urinating dog to celebrate a late touchdown to bring Ole Miss within a point of tying. Moore was hit with an unsportsmanlike penalty, forcing a longer extra-point try, which was missed. Ole Miss lost 21-20.
Well, someone wanted that image to be the new state flag of Mississippi. The designer ever added some rainbow text straight out of first-generation Microsoft Word.
You can check out all the submissions here.