To: Impala64ssa
... and Dennis Prager later added, “It would be wonderful to hear 80,000 people yelling, ‘Go Jews!’”
59 posted on
02/12/2014 3:38:59 AM PST by
glennaro
To: glennaro; Impala64ssa
One of the English Premiere League soccer clubs - Tottenham United, maybe? - still uses an unofficial nickname of “yids” dating back to a time where a large percentage of the population in that area was Jewish. Not so much anymore, but the fans still use the term.
64 posted on
02/12/2014 5:34:12 AM PST by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: glennaro
Of all the different animal nicknames for teams, the one you usually don't see is Raccoons (and yes I like the animal hence my nickname here). Some teams do have raccoon mascots, like the Hudson Valley Renegades and the Tennessee Titans; and the image of a "masked bandit" "stealing a base" is funny, etc. but I think teams are afraid of the potential chants: GO COONS GO!
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