Banning Race-Based mascots

[Eric P]

If your not offended by something, or someone's words, then freedom has disappeared.

[RblDiver]

Rebels= Luke Skywalker & crew= Fighting The Empire= Barrack Obummer

Heh, combining this and Jeff's:

Rebel = Rebel Alliance = Admiral Ackbar = Fish = Fish Sticks = Kanye West = Obama

[brutal]

Same thing happened in Eaton with their mascot. The alternative from some folks was to call them,...... The Eaton Beavers......... That brewhaa died rather quickly afterwards.

A friend's high school team were the called Fighting Golden Beavers. Don't recall if there was a mascot, maybe Bucky Beaver or some such foolishness.

[osok-308]

The way I see it, the teams are all privately owned and can name their teams whatever they want. If people have problems with that they don't HAVE to watch that team.

[blacklabel]

The way I see it, the teams are all privately owned and can name their teams whatever they want. If people have problems with that they don't HAVE to watch that team.

Go away and take your common sense with you.

[MrPrena]

Are they gonna ban "Fighting Irish?" "Demon Deacon?" "Blue devil?"

Spartans and Trojans are offense as well. It is like saying University of XX at YY COMMIES.

Spartans are coming!
Trojans are coming!
Commies are coming!

[tmckay2]

i went to illinois and was a chief's last dance. people don't point and laugh or make fun of chief, it was taken very seriously. is he a true representation of native americans? no, of course not. but he isn't a caricature either. if hes offensive then the FSU mascot is incredibly so.

It's not new. My dad and brother went to Illinois, which has the highly-offensive-to-native-americans Chief Illiniwek for a mascot and has been fighting about it for decades.

Yeah, we'll go with offensive, I guess. I had never heard so much about such a horrible tragedy that I cared so little about.