Re: Mascot Issue (AGAIN)
This is really just a lame arguement that people are offended by the name. There have been good suggestions, like just changing the name to the Skins, cause that is what we call them anyway. I love the thought of putting a white guys totally sunburned on the helmet that would be hilarious.
But really, think about it. "The Cheif" at the stadium is a Black guy, heck so is the Cowboy. Are hog farmers offended by the Hogettes?
Everyone needs to know it is a good thing cause we ware showing them as warriors, if we have to change our name, I think everyone should have to. The Packers have to tick off people working in a meat packing plant, or a cheese plant. The Giants has to offend people who are abnormally tall or large. The Patriots must offended people who are not loyal to their country or wear those old style hats.
As it has been said, it is a name of a team. I wear my Skins gear all the time and have been in a group of Native Americans while wearing a shirt that said Redskins and the only comment I got was the "redskins sucks" (stupid cowboy fans or just do not know what they are talking about), but they were referring to the football team, not the Native component... So it will not change, and if it does I will be upset cause the name is about history of the team. We already did a change for PC reasons when we changed the words in Hail to the Redskins (the scalp em part), so we have done our part.
Danny Boy will not let it happen, he loves the team and knows the history.
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