Mercer Unveils Ford Concert Series Lineup
8/5/2019 11:17:00 AM | Football
Tailgating experience to feature live music performances this fall
MACON, Ga. – Mercer has unveiled the full lineup of musical artists for its Ford Concert Series, a one-of-a-kind array of live music performances held before each of the Bears' six home football games this fall.
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The Ford Concert Series will include headlining performances by Molly Stevens, Morgan Evans, Tucker Beathard, Craig Campbell, Seaforth and The Grapevine. Dates and times of all performances will be released later into the month of August.Â
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To hear music from the headlining artists, check out Mercer's Ford Concert Series Spotify playlist.
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Presented by Ford, Mercer fans will have the opportunity to enjoy live music from national recording artists and popular local talent before kickoff at Toby Town, the designated tailgating area on Black Field, located adjacent to Five Star Stadium.
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Craig Campbell
Growing up in the small town of Lyons, Ga., a mix of musical gifts and hard work set Campbell's path early on. After falling in love with classic Country, he played keyboards in his mother's church and then on the road for an up-and-coming singer at the time named Luke Bryan. He eventually landed a coveted bandleader gig in the famous Nashville honky tonk, The Stage.
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Top Hits
Molly Stevens
Stevens grew up in Macon, Ga., singing in church and at many revivals led by her grandfather, a celebrated preacher throughout the Southeast. Growing up in Macon – the home of The Allman Brothers Band and Otis Redding, among others – Stevens never knew a time when southern rock or soul wasn't floating through the air.
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Top Hits
Morgan Evans
A bona fide country force in Australia, Evans has garnered countless awards and honors, most recently claiming County Work of the Year for "Kiss Somebody" at the 2018 APRA Music Awards. After sharing the bill with global superstar Taylor Swift, country-hit maker Cole Swindell and most A-list acts, Evans wrapped up his "10 IN 10 TOUR", performing 10 straight shows in 10 days, including sold-out headline dates in Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York.
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Top Hits
Seaforth
Years before their hook-heavy music brought them halfway across the world, Tom Jordan and Mitch Thompson were childhood friends, having met at the age of three. Named after their childhood Sydney suburb, Seaforth spent years traveling between Australia and the U.S. honing their craft and genre-jumping songwriting chops, to cultivate a sound that emphasizes their elastic voices and layered harmonies. The result is a quickly growing catalog of original songs that mix melodic pitch and modern organic production with the storytelling elements of classic country.
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Top Hits
The Grapevine
The Grapevine is a 10-piece band from Macon, Ga., specializing in music from the 60's, 70's and 80's. The Grapevine features a horn section that brings the soul to Motown, funk, disco and beach music that was popular in those eras. The three male vocalists provide a variety of music for your enjoyment. From The Temptations, Wilson Pickett, Prince, The Doobie Brothers, to Bruno Mars, The Grapevine will entertain you.
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Top Hits
Tucker Beathard
Raised around some of Nashville's seminal writers, the dirty blonde's sense of wordplay, melody, movement and story is beyond his peers. Just as importantly, his desire to do it his way informs his music and represents a generation of coming-of-age and refusing to politely do what they're told. For the natural athlete who gave up a scholarship to pursue music, that means hitting the road hard; finding a producer who would spend days in the basement chasing songs, tweaking what's been recorded and seeking a sound that felt more aligned with the firebrand's own sense of what music should be.
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Top Hits
Adam Doleac
Adam Doleac learned the value of building something with his own two hands, from the ground up, before he ever strummed his first chord or wrote his first lyric. His father introduced him to carpentry at age six, and the experience taught Adam it takes discipline to achieve your goals. The work ethic his father instilled in him led Adam to earn high school academic honors and excel at multiple sports. His baseball talent led him to be recruited by the University of Southern Mississippi. While at Southern Miss, Adam won three rings in four years and played in the 2009 College World Series.Â
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Top Hits
Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones co-produced her debut album, Bare Feet (March 30, 2018) / Mailboat Records), with Grammy and Academy Award-winning producer Ric Wake (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Trisha Yearwood). Bare Feet climbed to #14 on iTunes Country Albums Chart, and the official video for her current single, "Chasin' Me", spent three weeks at #1 on CMT.com's 12 Pack Countdown and has garnered over 4.3 million views across all platforms since its April 2019 release. Rolling Stone named Jones one of the "10 Country Artsits You Need to Know" and Billboard called her one of the "15 Country Artists to Watch in 2018".
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Top Hits
Floco Torres
Floco (pronounced Flock-o) Torres knows a thing or two about starting over. 23 projects deep into his career as a solo recording artists, he has envisioned and revisioned his creative expression countless times and with his adaptive style he has gained a steady following for his hip-hop-meets-alternative-rock style.
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Top Hits
Jordan Rager
A down-home country boy in every way, Rager was born and raised in the tiny rural community of Loganville, Georgia, which lies just 30 miles east of Atlanta. He's the son of a preacher man, and his early roots of singing in the church instilled him with both a great sense of worship and an unwavering passion for performing. It was one crisp Sunday morning when he was a wide-eyed 11-year-old that Rager's life changed forever; at the urging of his father, he took to the church stage for the first time to sing and was immediately struck by music's innate power. And he's never looked back.Â
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Top Hits
Lainey Wilson
Music was also a family affair. Wilson's father played guitar, her mother loved to dance and her grandparents often took her to bluegrass festivals. She wrote her first song at age nine, and her dad taught her how to play guitar at age 11. Wilson's love for writing and performing continued to grow as she booked herself gigs throughout high school, even working for a stint as a Hannah Montana impersonator performing at children's birthday parties and events - with Lainey Wilson the artist opening for Montana, of course.Â
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Top Hits
The Tams
The Tams are one of America's all-time favorite recording acts. World renown for their special blend of music that makes up the Beach Music sound, The Tams entertain crowds around the globe nearly 300 days a year. Probably best known for their 1968 gold hit, "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy", The Tams are celebrating recent success of their newest single, "Ain't Nothing Like Shagging", which reached number eight on the European charts.
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Top Hits
Crawford & Power
Crawford & Power was born of red clay, back roads, callouses and ingenuity passed down from mash makers. With roots in country, Americana and southern rock, they seek to spawn a classic country music revival with a splash of sweet iced tea and whiskey. Their unique approach to a fading genre has been lauded as a breath of fresh air amidst the commercialization of sacred American music genres. The two have already opened for a variety of artists including The Marshall Tucker Band, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, High Valley, Joe Diffie and Jerry Douglas to name a few.
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Top Hits
Ethan Payne
Ethan is a 16 year-old from Macon, Georgia. He picked up the guitar at the age of eight and started performing at the age of 13. Ethan has entertained the country genre by opening for various artist such as Suzie Boggus, Ricky Skaggs and Mark Wills, and even performed alongside Luke Bryan, in front of 50,000 people at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Ethan made his debut on this past season of American Idol when he reunited with Luke Bryan during his audition. Ethan released his first single in 2017 "Back In Time" and recently released a second in May of this year, "Dust". He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a genetic lung disease, when he was 18 months old but uses his singing to improve his health and quality of life.Â
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Top Hits
Maggie Renfroe
Maggie Renfroe is a 19 year-old singer-songwriter from Macon, Georgia, currently attending Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a soulful sound with a modern twist. She's a free spirit with an authentic connection to her audience. Interested in singing and guitar playing from the age of 7, Maggie is making her dream of a music career a reality. For several years, Maggie trained under "Mama Jam" at Jam Smith Studios in Atlanta before making her debut on the national stage with Season 11 of The Voice.
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Top Hits
Tyler Hammond
Tyler began his journey singing in the church choir and practicing three powerful chords that every guitarist learned first. When he arrived on the campus of Georgia College and State University, he encountered a whole new scene that would ultimately shape him and his music. His fame began at a local club where he used his music to entertain college kids on Tuesday nights. Fast forward a few years and Tyler earned the opportunity to play with many of the mentors he used to admire. He and the band perform over 150 shows a year across all parts of the southeast and has shared the stage with a number of idols including Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell.
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Top Hits
2019 Mercer Football Home Schedule
Date                     Opponent
Sept. 14Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Austin Peay
Sept. 28Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Campbell
Oct. 5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chattanooga
Oct. 19Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â VMI
Nov. 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Samford
Nov. 9Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Wofford
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Season Tickets Available
Season tickets are currently available for the upcoming 2019 football season. Due to a limited supply, fans are encouraged to visit tickets.mercer.edu or call the Mercer Ticket Office at (478) 301-5470 as soon as possible to secure tickets in a timely manner. For complete ticket information, click here.
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Follow the Bears
For complete coverage of Mercer Football, please follow the Bears on social media at @MercerFootball (Twitter), /MercerFootball (Facebook) and @MercerFootball (Instagram) or visit the official home of Mercer Athletics at MercerBears.com.
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The Ford Concert Series will include headlining performances by Molly Stevens, Morgan Evans, Tucker Beathard, Craig Campbell, Seaforth and The Grapevine. Dates and times of all performances will be released later into the month of August.Â
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To hear music from the headlining artists, check out Mercer's Ford Concert Series Spotify playlist.
Â
Presented by Ford, Mercer fans will have the opportunity to enjoy live music from national recording artists and popular local talent before kickoff at Toby Town, the designated tailgating area on Black Field, located adjacent to Five Star Stadium.
Â
Craig Campbell
Growing up in the small town of Lyons, Ga., a mix of musical gifts and hard work set Campbell's path early on. After falling in love with classic Country, he played keyboards in his mother's church and then on the road for an up-and-coming singer at the time named Luke Bryan. He eventually landed a coveted bandleader gig in the famous Nashville honky tonk, The Stage.
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Top Hits
- "Outskirts of Heaven"
- "Fish"
- "When She Grows Up"
- "Me Missing You"
- "See You Try"
- "Keep Them Kisses Comin"
Molly Stevens
Stevens grew up in Macon, Ga., singing in church and at many revivals led by her grandfather, a celebrated preacher throughout the Southeast. Growing up in Macon – the home of The Allman Brothers Band and Otis Redding, among others – Stevens never knew a time when southern rock or soul wasn't floating through the air.
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Top Hits
- "In Over My Head"
- "It's A Lie"
- "No One Else To Blame"
- "Come With Me"
- "Roots"
- "Just Hold On"
Morgan Evans
A bona fide country force in Australia, Evans has garnered countless awards and honors, most recently claiming County Work of the Year for "Kiss Somebody" at the 2018 APRA Music Awards. After sharing the bill with global superstar Taylor Swift, country-hit maker Cole Swindell and most A-list acts, Evans wrapped up his "10 IN 10 TOUR", performing 10 straight shows in 10 days, including sold-out headline dates in Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York.
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Top Hits
- "Kiss Somebody"
- "Day Drunk"
- "Everything Changes"
- "Young Again"
- "I Do"
- "Things We Drink To"
Seaforth
Years before their hook-heavy music brought them halfway across the world, Tom Jordan and Mitch Thompson were childhood friends, having met at the age of three. Named after their childhood Sydney suburb, Seaforth spent years traveling between Australia and the U.S. honing their craft and genre-jumping songwriting chops, to cultivate a sound that emphasizes their elastic voices and layered harmonies. The result is a quickly growing catalog of original songs that mix melodic pitch and modern organic production with the storytelling elements of classic country.
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Top Hits
- "Love That"
- "Good and Gone"
- "Taken Your Picture"
- "Talk to Me"
- "Magic"
The Grapevine
The Grapevine is a 10-piece band from Macon, Ga., specializing in music from the 60's, 70's and 80's. The Grapevine features a horn section that brings the soul to Motown, funk, disco and beach music that was popular in those eras. The three male vocalists provide a variety of music for your enjoyment. From The Temptations, Wilson Pickett, Prince, The Doobie Brothers, to Bruno Mars, The Grapevine will entertain you.
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Top Hits
- "Bad Moon Rising"
- "Green River"
- Good Golly Miss Molly"
- "Hey Tonight"
- "I Heard It Coming Through The Grapevine"
Tucker Beathard
Raised around some of Nashville's seminal writers, the dirty blonde's sense of wordplay, melody, movement and story is beyond his peers. Just as importantly, his desire to do it his way informs his music and represents a generation of coming-of-age and refusing to politely do what they're told. For the natural athlete who gave up a scholarship to pursue music, that means hitting the road hard; finding a producer who would spend days in the basement chasing songs, tweaking what's been recorded and seeking a sound that felt more aligned with the firebrand's own sense of what music should be.
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Top Hits
- "Picture To Prove It"
- "Brother"
- "Something To Say"
- "Better Than Me"
- "Ride On"
- "Find Me Here"
Adam Doleac
Adam Doleac learned the value of building something with his own two hands, from the ground up, before he ever strummed his first chord or wrote his first lyric. His father introduced him to carpentry at age six, and the experience taught Adam it takes discipline to achieve your goals. The work ethic his father instilled in him led Adam to earn high school academic honors and excel at multiple sports. His baseball talent led him to be recruited by the University of Southern Mississippi. While at Southern Miss, Adam won three rings in four years and played in the 2009 College World Series.Â
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Top Hits
- "Bigger Than Us"
- "Famous"
- "Whiskey's Fine"
- "Puzzle of Us"
- "Solo"
- "Mom and Daddy's Money"
Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones co-produced her debut album, Bare Feet (March 30, 2018) / Mailboat Records), with Grammy and Academy Award-winning producer Ric Wake (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Trisha Yearwood). Bare Feet climbed to #14 on iTunes Country Albums Chart, and the official video for her current single, "Chasin' Me", spent three weeks at #1 on CMT.com's 12 Pack Countdown and has garnered over 4.3 million views across all platforms since its April 2019 release. Rolling Stone named Jones one of the "10 Country Artsits You Need to Know" and Billboard called her one of the "15 Country Artists to Watch in 2018".
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Top Hits
- "Chasin' Me"
- "Gulf Coast Girl"
- "The Difference (Goshdamn)"
- "Bear Feet"
- "Rise"
- "Tough Guys"
Floco Torres
Floco (pronounced Flock-o) Torres knows a thing or two about starting over. 23 projects deep into his career as a solo recording artists, he has envisioned and revisioned his creative expression countless times and with his adaptive style he has gained a steady following for his hip-hop-meets-alternative-rock style.
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Top Hits
- "Nobody Knows"
- "You"
- "Sock it to Ya"
- "Voltron"
- "Swan Song"
- "Cherry Street"
Jordan Rager
A down-home country boy in every way, Rager was born and raised in the tiny rural community of Loganville, Georgia, which lies just 30 miles east of Atlanta. He's the son of a preacher man, and his early roots of singing in the church instilled him with both a great sense of worship and an unwavering passion for performing. It was one crisp Sunday morning when he was a wide-eyed 11-year-old that Rager's life changed forever; at the urging of his father, he took to the church stage for the first time to sing and was immediately struck by music's innate power. And he's never looked back.Â
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Top Hits
- "Southern Boy"
- "Colorblind"
- "Now That I Know Your Name"
- "Underage"
- "One of the Good Ones"
Lainey Wilson
Music was also a family affair. Wilson's father played guitar, her mother loved to dance and her grandparents often took her to bluegrass festivals. She wrote her first song at age nine, and her dad taught her how to play guitar at age 11. Wilson's love for writing and performing continued to grow as she booked herself gigs throughout high school, even working for a stint as a Hannah Montana impersonator performing at children's birthday parties and events - with Lainey Wilson the artist opening for Montana, of course.Â
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Top Hits
- "High on Something"
- "Workin' Overtime"
- "Middle Finger"
- "Laugh It Off"
- "Waste of Whiskey"
- "Where My House Stood"
The Tams
The Tams are one of America's all-time favorite recording acts. World renown for their special blend of music that makes up the Beach Music sound, The Tams entertain crowds around the globe nearly 300 days a year. Probably best known for their 1968 gold hit, "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy", The Tams are celebrating recent success of their newest single, "Ain't Nothing Like Shagging", which reached number eight on the European charts.
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Top Hits
- "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy"
- "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"
- "Laugh It Off"
- "There Ain't Nothing Like Shagging"
- "I've Been Hurt"
- "What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)"
Crawford & Power
Crawford & Power was born of red clay, back roads, callouses and ingenuity passed down from mash makers. With roots in country, Americana and southern rock, they seek to spawn a classic country music revival with a splash of sweet iced tea and whiskey. Their unique approach to a fading genre has been lauded as a breath of fresh air amidst the commercialization of sacred American music genres. The two have already opened for a variety of artists including The Marshall Tucker Band, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, High Valley, Joe Diffie and Jerry Douglas to name a few.
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Top Hits
- "Take Me Back"
- "Wild Side"
- "Play a Hank Jr. Song"
- "Dancing Alone"
- "She Liked to Get High"
- "I'd See You"
Ethan Payne
Ethan is a 16 year-old from Macon, Georgia. He picked up the guitar at the age of eight and started performing at the age of 13. Ethan has entertained the country genre by opening for various artist such as Suzie Boggus, Ricky Skaggs and Mark Wills, and even performed alongside Luke Bryan, in front of 50,000 people at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Ethan made his debut on this past season of American Idol when he reunited with Luke Bryan during his audition. Ethan released his first single in 2017 "Back In Time" and recently released a second in May of this year, "Dust". He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a genetic lung disease, when he was 18 months old but uses his singing to improve his health and quality of life.Â
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Top Hits
- "Back In Time"
- "Dust"
Maggie Renfroe
Maggie Renfroe is a 19 year-old singer-songwriter from Macon, Georgia, currently attending Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a soulful sound with a modern twist. She's a free spirit with an authentic connection to her audience. Interested in singing and guitar playing from the age of 7, Maggie is making her dream of a music career a reality. For several years, Maggie trained under "Mama Jam" at Jam Smith Studios in Atlanta before making her debut on the national stage with Season 11 of The Voice.
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Top Hits
- "Empty Faces"
- "Something Big"
- "When WIll You Be Mine"
- "Girl Code"
- "Mama Knows Best"
Tyler Hammond
Tyler began his journey singing in the church choir and practicing three powerful chords that every guitarist learned first. When he arrived on the campus of Georgia College and State University, he encountered a whole new scene that would ultimately shape him and his music. His fame began at a local club where he used his music to entertain college kids on Tuesday nights. Fast forward a few years and Tyler earned the opportunity to play with many of the mentors he used to admire. He and the band perform over 150 shows a year across all parts of the southeast and has shared the stage with a number of idols including Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell.
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Top Hits
- "Down Girl"
- "Little Bit Crazy"
- "How I've Always Been"
- "Secondhand Smoke"
- "Wild One Tonight"
- "Tough Girl"
2019 Mercer Football Home Schedule
Date                     Opponent
Sept. 14Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Austin Peay
Sept. 28Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Campbell
Oct. 5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chattanooga
Oct. 19Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â VMI
Nov. 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Samford
Nov. 9Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Wofford
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Season Tickets Available
Season tickets are currently available for the upcoming 2019 football season. Due to a limited supply, fans are encouraged to visit tickets.mercer.edu or call the Mercer Ticket Office at (478) 301-5470 as soon as possible to secure tickets in a timely manner. For complete ticket information, click here.
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Follow the Bears
For complete coverage of Mercer Football, please follow the Bears on social media at @MercerFootball (Twitter), /MercerFootball (Facebook) and @MercerFootball (Instagram) or visit the official home of Mercer Athletics at MercerBears.com.
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