[HEY4QDEMS]

Actually, I have always believed that the name was disparaging as well as the Canucks.
When the Redskins were formed in Boston, there were similar sentiments conveyed when they chose that as their name.

[mitchbert]

Actually, I have always believed that the name was disparaging as well as the Canucks.

Searching my Canuck memory as much as I can, I am unable to recall one time I ever heard anyone suggest that the name was disparaging in the least. Now, if we had a team called the Labrador Newfies, that may be a different story, :-)

[SAJ]

The complaints, if any, were minor. The football team was originally named the Braves, after the baseball Boston Braves and because the football team also played at old Braves Field. The owner got p.o.ed a couple of years later and moved the team to Fenway AND changed the nickname to ''Redskins'', generally to spite the baseball team. This historical process was not entirely dissimilar from the origin of the nickname ''Bears'' for the Chicago football team, and has further similarity to the baseball/football NY Giants.

The ''offensiveness'' of the nickname is of entirely recent origin, and is a bunch of manufactured kwapola.

[far sider]

Actually, I have always believed that the name was disparaging as well as the Canucks.

This is a comic book that was published by Canadians and sold in the US when I was a kid. I bought a few issues of it but it wasn't that great. How is "Canuck" disparaging?