By Lee Pace
At 4:30 p.m. Sunday the Carolina football team gathered on the lawn around the Bell Tower just outside Kenan Stadium, where less than 24 hours earlier it had staved off old rival Duke by a 20-17 margin. The Victory Bell had been relocated from the Tar Heel locker room to the lawn and was sitting on drop cloths. Eighteen cans of Carolina blue spray paint were lined up on one of the brick steps at the base of the Bell Tower.
Mack Brown gave his players a quick history lesson about the bell—that it's served as the spoils of victory in the Carolina-Duke game since 1948 and that the Tar Heels have won 46 games, Duke 25 with one tie since then.