The Skinbasket Weighs in on New Redskins Nicknames

[Iron Mike]

How about the Washington Roosevelt Franklins???



They could keep the same colors and everything...

[sooner6600]

Swede;

Chief Wahoo is Cleveland Indians
Chief Knock a Homma is Atlanta.

Willie Wampum is Marquette.

Some facts are hard to come by, uffdah


Good ole Southeastern State has a liberal fit and changed the name from Savages to Savage Storm.

Pee You.

I for one like Warner Brothers 1930's 1940's cartoons.

The Woody Woodpecker and Terri Toons are not for the most dainty of liberal thought process, if any.

[Smeefers]

Swede;

Chief Wahoo is Cleveland Indians
Chief Knock a Homma is Atlanta.

Willie Wampum is Marquette.

Some facts are hard to come by, uffdah


Good ole Southeastern State has a liberal fit and changed the name from Savages to Savage Storm.

Pee You.

I for one like Warner Brothers 1930's 1940's cartoons.

The Woody Woodpecker and Terri Toons are not for the most dainty of liberal thought process, if any.

Uffdah? Oh gosh. Here we go.

Ole and Lars were working for the city public works department in Wisconsin. Ole would dig a hole and Lars would follow behind and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one digging a hole, the other filling it in again.

An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So he asked Ole, 'I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don't get it -- why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?'

Ole, the hole digger, wiped his brow and sighed, 'Vell, I suppose it probably looks odd because ve're normally a three-person team. But today Sven, who plants da trees called in sick.'

[Iron Mike]

Ole, Lena & Sven are fishing in Northern Wisconsin one summer. Sven accidentally drops his sunglasses in the water and decides to go in after them. After awhile, he fails to come up and Ole & Lena both remember Sven can't swim. Ole goes in after him and after a bit, gets the body up into the boat. After starting mouth-to-mouth..Ole says "I don't recall Sven having breath this bad"...To which Lena replies..."I don't think he was wearing that snowmobile suit either".

[woodbuck27]

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/cold-hard-football-facts-blog/roger-goodell-defends-redskins-name-letter-to-congress/23059/

Roger Goodell Defends Redskins Name In Letter To Congress


Cold, Hard Football Facts for Jun 12, 2013

[pbmax]

I bet this one was nixed because it frightened young children - and was probably made with highly friable asbestos-laden plaster-like material.

It seems to be of a piece with the Indians logo. It must have been part of a trend in cartoons or comics or something.

[swede]

It seems to be of a piece with the Indians logo. It must have been part of a trend in cartoons or comics or something.

It always struck me as funny that trumpets went "Bwaa Duh Bwaa dint duh duuh!" every time the Indians showed up in a movie or a cartoon, like it was a jazz band of Indians at the top of the rise. I always wondered when that meme got its start.

[falco]

This is a tough issue. I think the main reason is because the name has been around so long and most are desensitized to it. I can't imagine an expansion team being given a similar name today.

[mraynrand]

It always struck me as funny that trumpets went "Bwaa Duh Bwaa dint duh duuh!" every time the Indians showed up in a movie or a cartoon, like it was a jazz band of Indians at the top of the rise. I always wondered when that meme got its start.

It's a well known fact that indians love jazz

[pbmax]

It's a well known fact that indians love jazz

And they could have gotten a bugle or two from F Troop.

[Joemailman]

This doesn't add anything to the discussion, but it was considered pretty funny when it came out:

[mraynrand]

This doesn't add anything to the discussion....

welcome to Packerrats

[Zool]

Shouldn't the Cleveland Indians have Sanjai Najanamabad as a mascot?

As PB has pointed out (if I read correctly in my skimming), it's not the association with the tribes that gets to some people it's the name itself. The 49ers could be renamed the yellowskins I suppose. The team could wear socks and sandals instead of cleats and carry around digital cameras.

LA's next expansion team should be the brownskins, and they could all come on to the field in low riders with murals painted on the back shooting pistols in the air.

[Noodle]

I have a simple test -- could you go into a bar filled with native americans and shout out, "Hi'ya, Redskins"?

Apply the same test to a bar full of Scandinavians, this time referring to the denizens as "Vikings" -- you'd be drinking free all night.

So don't waste my time with false equivalencies. This should be easy. The name is clearly offensive and archaic. And just because it's been used for a long time doesn't mean squat. The passage of time does not make stupid stuff unstupid; it just makes it stupider that it's not getting fixed.

And, as MadScientist pointed out, there's such an easy solution. Call 'em the "PigSkins." The fightsong can be easily modified (substitute "Hogs" for "Braves"), and the hog merchandising opportunities should make the front-office drool.

This needs to happen.

[woodbuck27]

I have a simple test -- could you go into a bar filled with native americans and shout out, "Hi'ya, Redskins"?

Apply the same test to a bar full of Scandinavians, this time referring to the denizens as "Vikings" -- you'd be drinking free all night.

So don't waste my time with false equivalencies. This should be easy. The name is clearly offensive and archaic. And just because it's been used for a long time doesn't mean squat. The passage of time does not make stupid stuff unstupid; it just makes it stupider that it's not getting fixed.

And, as MadScientist pointed out, there's such an easy solution. Call 'em the "PigSkins." The fightsong can be easily modified (substitute "Hogs" for "Braves"), and the hog merchandising opportunities should make the front-office drool.

This needs to happen.

Hi Noodle:

Your use of analogy and logic makes the question look simple.