The Story Of Rameses

Posted Jun 28, 2022
Eric Chilton remembers the day Rameses came to Carmichael Arena for the first time during a basketball game in the 1987-1988 season. A senior studying broadcast journalism at the time, he recalls a lot of the details, though none too vividly. As the man inside the Rameses costume, his only view was through a 6-inch hole in Rameses’ mouth. (UNC.edu)

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