Whether you like it or not.
Posted on 01/12/2006 10:20:54 PM PST by paulat
An Evergreen Story
On Saturday the Washington Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-10 in an NFL wild-card game, which means that this weekend the Redskins travel to Seattle to play the Seahawks, whose 13-3 record is the best in the National Football Conference. The Washington Post, a newspaper in the District of Columbia, reports that this is causing some trouble for a newspaper in Washington state:
To avoid insulting native American heritage, the Seattle Times decided to limit severely the use of the term Redskins in the paper--even if a team with that name will dominate news coverage this week. The Times will not use the moniker in headlines or captions. Reporters can use it only once, as a first reference, in all stories. The Redskins will be referred to almost exclusively as Washington--which could get a little confusing for local readers who also live in that state.
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That is a fact. I don't know why that makes you so uncomfortable.
Liberal "ladies" and their metro men are just hiding behind tepees.
Whether you like it or not.
I don't find the name "whiteskins" any more appealing.
In the old days of cruelty, I think sometimes people would be skinned alive.
"redskins" creeps me out.
dead...you are a pain in the posterior...sigh!...but here goes...
I wouldn't like "whiteskins," or "blackskins," or "brownskins," or "yellowskins," or "pinkskins,"....
Dang, the grocery stores up here sell a potato called a "redskin." Wonder what it should be called now?
is there room in your tag line to attribute the quote properly ?
at least put quotation marks around it.
Yep! We call them Deadskins down here in Texas...
And, yeah, they did beat us Cowboys twice this year, but considering we won 14 of the previous 15, and next season is not too far away... Payback is hell, ya know?
"How many dogs ya got sleepin' under that car jacked up on ceement blocks?"
Boy do I feel dumb (well, no I don't.)
You sound like a whiney liberal. "Oh boo hoo, I'm OFFENDED." Get over it.
Uh-huh. And it shows in threads like this, sorta, kind of...
...(snicker)...
Call them reservation rats. PC is out of hand.
Oh, give it a rest. Did you see post #12??? Did you read the posts???
Well you just forfeited it with this idiocy.
You still didn't explain why.
Does the fact that people have different skin colors bother you in some way?
You wish.
How about the Washington Gamblers?
And *I* am offended by your name: paulat. Why? It reminds me of something I saw on TV that I didn't like. Confused? Tough.
Please change your name now.
So slap a temporary decal of a "Pontiac Red" spud on the helmuts, and STILL call them "Redskins".
They're all a bunch of potato heads anyway.
Naw, it's not. What else would you call that kind of peanut?
''Reddish small legumes with the skin still on, tasty when salted''? Rather a longish name for a mascot. Inert, too -- lacks any sort of energy.
Gimme a break. Give the freakin' WORLD a break, f'Heaven's sake. ''Redskins'' is the name of a team's mascot. Teams, as a rule, do NOT choose a mascot they do not admire and respect (I might be persuaded to exempt from this comment the 'Fighting Banana Slugs' of UC-Santa Cruz, but I would probably also except that institution from any concept of 'team' at all, bar possibly cornholing, and would definitely void out of hand the choice of any 'mascot' that institution would 'admire').
Besides which, if you know your NFL history, you will be well aware of the fact that the Washington Redskins were formerly the Boston Redskins, and were named, originally, after the Boston Braves -- much as the (now NFL) Chicago Bears were named after the Chicago Cubs.
If there's ANY offence to be taken about the 'Washington Redskins', it's the persistence of unoriginality in the name of tradition.
And any pseudo-Indian with a lawyer and a part interest in a casino who doesn't happen to like the Washington team's mascot can go and p.u.a.r. (translated: attempt to propel certain renal by-products vertically along a segment of woven hemp).
Bah! No fan of the Redskins here -- yet I'd very much enjoy seeing them waste the Starbucks' boys handily.
Sheesh-a-rama.
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