Greg Hardy, the Carolina Panthers defensive end, attended Ole Miss University and is named Greg Hardy. So why did he announce his name as Kraken and his alma mater as Hogwarts during Sunday Night Football this week? Jonathan Jones of Inside the Panthers found out.

“I can do whatever I want. I’m the Kraken. If you feel like you can ask the Kraken personally where he goes to school at, and prove me wrong, then I feel like I’ll change it.”

Okay. The Kraken is a mythical sea beast that has been referenced in various mediums including a Tennyson sonnet and hit Disney films. The monster’s origin story is hard to pin down. Where did he go to school? Hogwarts doesn’t allow in monsters, except for that whole Chamber of Secrets thing, so it’s unlikely the Kraken matriculated there. Shoot, it’s possible he went straight from high school to the pros. When you’re 50 feet long, you don’t need to fine tune the game in college.

When reminded that he went to Mississippi, Hardy threw it down philosophically.

“That’s not where I said I went, though. Now, G Hardy went to Ole Miss. That’s mind-blowing right there.”

Truly.

Hardy, or the Kraken, or whoever was speaking, later explained that he filmed his intro after practice. When NBC folks asked if he was sure he wanted to use “Kraken, Hogwarts,” Hardy said yes.

But why the sunglasses? Surely the sun’s rays don’t affect a sea monster’s eyes. And if they did, a quick incantation learned from his days in Charms class with Professor Flitwick could have helped things.

Hardy said he figured “why not” because it’s not like he was doing anything else wrong. Then he cited the popular phrase YOLO, which is likely the first and last time “you only live once” will be used to justify wearing sunglasses while announcing to a national television audience that you attended a fictional school for witchcraft and wizardry.