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The Fighting Irish name was given to the sports teams of an Irish Catholic school by the Irish Catholics who ran the school.
You're the second person on the same page of this thread to try and make this incredibly stupid comparison.
It is rather stunning, isn't it? When one stupid thing doesn't work, they grab another one. Wash, rinse, repeat. Meanwhile, it's absolutely NOTHING to do with their lives. I wonder why it's so important to them to be able to say "Redskin" with impunity?
I find the Vikings and Cowboys to be offensive. In the Big Ten, I really hate the gophers. All three are terribly offensive and they should change thier names to the Vi-Queens, Cowgirls, and the Rodents, respectively.
I find the Vikings and Cowboys to be offensive. In the Big Ten, I really hate the gophers. All three are terribly offensive and they should change thier names to the Vi-Queens, Cowgirls, and the Rodents, respectively.
Vi-Queens? Packers fan, eh? Just asking, because that is the nickname Packers fans give to the Vikings.
Growing up I always wanted to play football in the Rubber Bowl in Akron Ohio being a TROJAN in HS but the name always sounded like something being used and then flushed away.Yes the name TROJANS is offending to me...
We called them that all the time, when I lived in Minnesota. Especially when they used to win their division by losing their last three games and winding up with a 7-9 record... which was still better than anyone else in their division.
Growing up I always wanted to play football in the Rubber Bowl in Akron Ohio being a TROJAN in HS but the name always sounded like something being used and then flushed away.Yes the name TROJANS is offending to me...
LOL!!!!!
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We called them that all the time, when I lived in Minnesota. Especially when they used to win their division by losing their last three games and winding up with a 7-9 record... which was still better than anyone else in their division.
I've heard them referenced as such, but mostly by Packers fans.
BREAKING NEWS: The Washington Redskins football team is changing its name.
Due to all the negativity, shame, humiliation, dissent, polarity, adversity, defiance, hatred, animosity, contempt, discrimination, division, violence, counter-productivity, ill-spirit, un-Godliness, and hostility associated with their name, they have decided to disassociate themselves from such an ill-conceived and controversial group.
From now on they will be known simply as the Redskins!
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is still adamant about keeping the team name, despite the loss of its trademark status and a growing chorus of critics who say it's offensive to Native Americans. But two marketing professors at Emory University say Snyder is making a boneheaded business decision. Forget the morality of it, this is "managerial malpractice," argue Michael Lewis and Manish Tripathi in the New York Times. They crunched marketing numbers for college programs that have ditched similar names and found that nothing much changed in the first year, but that the teams saw increasing revenue after that.
From this, they conclude that opponents of such moves are a vocal minority, and their threats of boycotts just so much hot air. The professors also found that the two NFL teams with the most "negative brand equity" over the past decade are the Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs, another team with an American Indian theme. This is "elementary" marketing stuff, they write. Too many people hate the name, even in Washington. Snyder should reach out to American Indian groups, find an alternative that honors instead of offends, and reap the benefits. "In this case, doing the morally right thing is also the correct business decision," they write
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Just asking, because that is the nickname Packers fans give to the Vikings.
