To: little jeremiah
Stanford used to be the "Indians" then they voluntarily renamed the team "Cardinal" as in the color.
They knew that no one would notice that "red" in the singular was a derivative of "red skin" or "red skins" or Indians...
63 posted on
08/05/2005 11:41:36 PM PDT by
Positive
(Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
To: Positive
Hopefully, the winged and feathered creature was not offended by the name change either?
64 posted on
08/05/2005 11:44:54 PM PDT by
incredulous joe
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