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Back on Feb. 4 Reid Collins blogged from near Red Lodge, Montana, predicting a major name change in the world of sports. Last night the Red Lodge school board voted to change its high school’s mascot. The school’s teams will no longer be called “Redskins.” How long before the NFL’s lowly Redskins follow suit?
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ncatty| 2.16.11 @ 3:07PM
Where I live the local Native Americans were called the Saponi. They no longer exist. Therefore, the name "Washington Saponi" is available without objection.
Chris| 2.16.11 @ 3:26PM
And, per a poll about 5-6 years ago, most Indians don't care. That's why Greg Easterbrook stopped complaining about it. If the Indians don't care, why should anyone else.
topcat| 2.16.11 @ 4:30PM
Several years ago the thought police descended on UMass, whose teams were then nicknamed the "Redmen." This was deemed insulting to Native Americans and, like almost all other colleges with Indian names, UMass changed. Actually, they came up with a better name, the "Minutemen." The PC troops immediately changed gears claiming this was just glorifying dead white men.
P.S. Do you know how Notre Dame came to be the "Fighting Irish?" It was originally an ethnic slur.
KingCranium| 2.16.11 @ 5:07PM
Never, or long after we're all dead, whichever matters more to you. I live in DC and this is absolutely the only place where the owner won't milk every cent he can out of the team (and a name and logo change would make him a mint).
RWinks| 2.16.11 @ 5:49PM
My opinion of WP just dropped significantly. This garbage about team names and American Indians was dreamed up by the anti-American Left. Why anyone not of the Left would adopt such a putrid PC attitude is beyond me. They must be pathetically ignorant of American history. NO team calls themselves anything considered a slur and never has.
Slightly off topic but pertinent is the highly offensive misuse of the term "Native American". Anyone born in the USA is native American....as am I. It is extremely insulting to imply some Americans are more "native" than others. My own ancestry in North America goes back more than 350 years.... a longer period of time than the Lakota Sioux have occupied their "Sacred Ancestral Lands" on the Great Plains.....They migrated from the Carolinas a few decades before the American Revolution. Never the less, I am no more "native" than a second generation Pole or Mexican and no less native than any Indian.
bobmontgomery| 2.16.11 @ 7:58PM
The NFL itself will be irrelevant in a few years, as they want to become a touch football league.
danny| 2.16.11 @ 8:18PM
exactly bobmontgomery, i always thought i had passed the age when i might be able to make it in the nfl, but, if things keep going the way they are i might be able to get a couple seasons in yet. lol as they say!
bobmontgomery| 2.16.11 @ 9:56PM
Just when they get ready to grab that flag, you put the old spin move on 'em and you're bound for glory!
bobmontgomery| 2.16.11 @ 10:04PM
The late Myles Brand, may he rest ........, was a big mover and shaker in the NCAA's effort to mess with tradition on college campuses. Of course, he is the one who single handedly destroyed the basketball program at Indiana University and almost drove the entire athletic program into the ground. These stories are part and parcel of the broader effort going on in this country for decades to get rid of everything having to do with Americana, Christianity and individual self-worth. It is pursued by the same sometimes loose-, sometimes close-knit federation of collectivist zealots who bray about drowning polar bears and make false accusations of racism and distort and revise history books and give themselves Nobel and Pulitzer prizes and Academy Awards. They are disgusting.