CHAPEL HILL
Our great national nightmare is over. The Victory Bell stand will be painted, after all.
And here we all were: stunned after the dramatic news earlier this week. It was a development that sent waves of shock reverberating throughout the land: the Victory Bell, the ultimate symbol of triumph in the Duke-North Carolina football rivalry, had received a makeover.
No one could believe it. No one could make sense of it. This was a new world: the Victory Bell stand was no longer Carolina blue, as it had been since November 2014 after the Tar Heels' victory at Duke, but now it was half Carolina blue and half Duke blue, a symbol of neutrality with both schools’ logos on it.