By Lee Pace
Twenty two years ago, Tar Heel Coach Mack Brown and UNC Chancellor Michael Hooker led a processional of football players and coaches from the original Kenan Field House in the east end zone of Kenan Stadium to the new locker room on the ground floor of a new west end zone facility. That building was still under construction, but Brown promised the seniors of what would be an 11-1 team in 1997 that he'd have the locker room ready for their final season.
Brown and Hooker carried a box made of glass and wood that housed a ram head skeleton with its horns painted Carolina blue—the prop a visual rendition of the team's rally cry of "Bad to the Bone.