Posted on 10/29/2021 11:00:34 AM PDT by ocendot
Bob Nightengale, USA Today's MLB writer, penned a piece Wednesday titled "MLB, club won't budge on Atlanta baseball team's nickname, but here's why I won't use it" that began by listing the "blatantly racist" caricatures and the "offensive" mascot that were previously removed and how headdresses, face paint and the famous "tomahawk chop" chant at games became "strongly discouraged."
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And on the other coat the Seattle Supersonics are contributing to noise pollution. And don't get me started on the Norfolk Tides, yep, coastal erosion.
What about the Toledo Mud Hens?
That tells me more about the community that named them, Psilocybin mushroom farmers I can only guess.
nickname not offensive
Crimson Tide is the only one I can think of
Ahhh.....they were complaining back in 1992 also. Deion Sanders showed up and brought some of the old school FSU mojo with him. The “chop” has been done for years at FSU. It sort of picked up and became a thing. I remember Jane wouldn’t do the chop - she had some alternative thing.
One of the Division playoff games we were intercepted by the local Atlanta news outside the stadium. They have maybe 8 protestors in a group as you walked up the concourse area outside, and a news crew was about 30 feet away. Im not kidding - it wasnt even 10 people.
We had been drinking since noon and were walking a bit slow, and the news crew stopped us and started asking us a few loaded questions. I forgot what they were but none of our answers were suitable for broadcast. Seeing us standing there with this crew, the group of protestors started chanting something.
The reporter chick with the microphone was actually really good looking and one of the guys in our group asked her if she wanted to meet us out later after the game. She must have gotted a kick out of that cause she lowered the microphone and started talking to him about where we would be going. The protestors kept chanting and making noise the longer we stood there.
Next day my uncle who lived in Atlanta told us he saw the news report that the Braves game was protested. We never got on TV, but not even a dozen people out of 10s of thousands.....I can’t believe it got the attention it did.
Hey Bob Nightengale, If the word, Braves, offends you, you should look up the “song” lyrics of this season’s NFL SB half time show “artists”.
The Braves or a Texas team. Ha! The MSM can shove it!
You can hit back by denouncing the team name, not for being racist, but for calling the Indians brave. When challenged that, well, the individual Indians were brave, you immediately hit back with, “If they were brave, why are you lying about them and trying to denigrate their bravery? Why not call them for what they are? It must be because you hate them!”
The Celtics probably send him into fits.
Red Sox? White Sox?
Never mind. I just realized these are exclusionary to people of different soxualities. As well as people of color. Sigh...
While I would normally agree with you, most of the news media thinks that Pistons is a measurement of fluid by weight.
Bob Nightengale is named after a bird. I’ll bet at least some birds might find that offensive. Except for cuckoos. Bob Cuckoo. I like it.
I remember Mike Tirico refusing to say “Redskins” on Monday Night Football a few years before they destroyed the team name. These people always get away with it. They wreck everything.
By the time every liberal of note can get rid of anything that offends them, we aren’t left with much. Look at art. Look at comedy. Look at the crap on TV. Look at commercials.
That’s what we have gotten for obeying political correctness religion since the beginning of the nineties.
Hmmm
And how about our racist national anthem? We’ll have to change it to: The land of the free and the home of the woke.”
I have a pet peeve against two team names. Astros sounds like a dog’s name and Mets sounds like a town in France.
“Wouldn’t that be a tribute? A compliment?”
But there is one large minority in America that hasn’t had teams named after it.
They make fun of his speech impediment - Ruh Roh....
Even the USC Trojans' mascot is under attack, despite being from antiquity. The sculptor who created iconic statue of a Trojan warrior in the center of the campus known as Tommy Trojan has come under fire for using a white athlete as his model; a white horse is ridden around the field when the team scores, and the horse's name is Traveler, the name of General Robert E. Lees horse.
Why is it “racist”? It’s almost like they don’t understand the meaning of the word. Truth is they do, and are using it as a cudgel against anything white people do.
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