We name our teams after strong, courageous, heroic, or fierce things we admire, to foster pride ,teamwork, and a winning attitude.
That’s why we have “The Tigers” and not “The Tapeworms”.
That’s why we have the “Braves” and not “The Bedwetters”.
That’s why we have “The Marlins” and not “The Minnows”.
This whole argument is a manufactured crisis and doesn’t help Native American people at all.
I hope that they didn’t get any ideas from George Carlin, who thought up names such as “Cincinnati Mice”, “Hawaii Hamsters”, “Georgia Gerbils” ad nauseam.