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'Fightin' Tom Hanks,' 'Black Mambas' rejected from U. of North Dakota nickname contention
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| 5-5-15
| Brett Smiley
Posted on 05/06/2015 6:17:59 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The University of North Dakota has unveiled the complete list of suggestions it received for a new team nickname to replace the "Fighting Sioux," which was retired in 2012. And boy, were some of the names ridiculous. You can check here for the list of 1,172 names still in contention, but let's pay tribute to some of the more amusing monikers suggested -- with shoutouts to Kobe Bryant, "Game of Thrones" and "South Park" -- and promptly missed the cut. And as you can see below, many people who submitted names (UND had to whittle down the 628-page list of nickname suggestions down to 214) also included entertaining rationales to go along with them:
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: nd; pc; sioux
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Artist says Fighting Sioux emblem misunderstood by 'politically correct' people http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768522/posts nothing will satisfy the leftist moonbat PC bedwetters.
To: TurboZamboni
Give it 20 years. At that point, the PC libs will be weeping and wailing at the injustice and “genocide” of Native American names being banished from professional and college sports.
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:20:17 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: TurboZamboni; mikrofon; martin_fierro
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:22:09 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(When your panties are in a bunch.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I’m pulling for the “Athletically Gifted Indigenous First Peoples”
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:22:20 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:23:33 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: goodwithagun
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:27:06 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: TurboZamboni
We must give equal recognition to aggrieved species. They will now be the Fighting Earthworms.
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:32:17 AM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(Keep JRandomFreeper in you prayers)
To: TurboZamboni
Alumni aren’t happy about it. When my husband was there, all but one of the tribes gave their approval of the name. I assume it’s because of that tribe that the name had to go.
We’ve been to a couple of athletic hall of fame banquets and even with the name officially gone, each inductee ended their acceptance speech with “Go Souix!”
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:39:05 AM PDT
by
NorthstarMom
(God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
To: Charles Henrickson
But would chef knives on a logo require student safe spaces?
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:45:08 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Give it 20 years. At that point, the PC libs will be weeping and wailing at the injustice and genocide of Native American names being banished from professional and college sports. I agree, they will all be worried about the blanking out of our history and no mention of the "Long-Lost Sioux"
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:48:31 AM PDT
by
builder
(I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
To: TurboZamboni
Follow Prince’s lead: simply a logo of a Tomahawk and the words “Team formally know as the Fighting Sioux.”
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:49:01 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Clay Moore
"We must give equal recognition to aggrieved species. They will now be the Fighting Earthworms."
So the Earth Firsters would be happy.
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:50:29 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: TurboZamboni
So I guess we won't be watching UND WoodChippers anytime soon...
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:57:17 AM PDT
by
LadyBuck
(....and we're off to the rodeo......)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:57:35 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: IYAS9YAS
The University of North Dakota...
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posted on
05/06/2015 7:01:55 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: TurboZamboni
The other day it was the first time I’d heard the term
“casino or call center”
when referring to “Indians”.
I’d heard “feather or dot” before.
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posted on
05/06/2015 7:04:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: TurboZamboni
The Micro-aggressive Adverse People of Color?
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posted on
05/06/2015 7:08:01 AM PDT
by
Leep
(To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
To: TurboZamboni
Sadly I think they nixed mine :( ...
To: TurboZamboni
There but for the grace of ACC membership go the Florida State Seminoles.
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