First the "Fighting Sioux"
Fight On: Battle Over Redskins Name Goes Before Federal Board
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The long-running battle over the Washington Redskins name gets a restart Thursday, when a group of Native Americans goes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to argue that the franchise should lose their federal trademark protection, based on a law that prohibits registered names that disparaging, scandalous, contemptuous or disreputable.Comments: Political correctness run amok
Others:
- University of North Dakota "Fighting Sioux" (name abandoned under duress)
- Cleveland Indians
- Atlanta Braves
- Florida State Seminoles
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Chicago Blackhawks (probably named offensively after Black Hawk ... Sauk leader)
Updated .. 2 more
Added one more:
Michigan's use of the name "Wolverines" slanders a perfectly respectable member of the weasel family. :^)
ReplyDelete(and Oakland slanders perfectly respectable pirates.......)
COOPERSTOWN, NY, SCHOOL RETIRES REDSKINS NICKNAME
ReplyDeleteAthletes in James Fenimore Cooper's hometown will no longer take the field as the Redskins.
The school board in the upstate New York village of Cooperstown voted 6-to-1 Wednesday night to retire the nickname, which goes back to the 1920s. The vote was prompted by Cooperstown Central School students who found it offensive to American Indians.
Cooperstown is best known as the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. But it was also the hometown of Cooper, who wrote "The Last of the Mohicans" and whose father settled the town.
It should also be noted that what the Detroit Lions and Chicago Cubs say about genus leo and family ursa is just plain unprintable. (maybe this year, says this long-suffering Cubbies fan....)
ReplyDeleteSo instead we get team names like "Minnesota Wild?" Yes, that's better for sports.
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