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Devils Lake, N.D., Teams Lose Satans Nickname, Mascot
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^
| August 27, 2002
| Chuck Haga
Posted on 08/27/2002 7:51:24 AM PDT by gdani
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Reluctantly but by a 5-0 vote, the school board has made its decision: Get thee behind us, Satan.
For more than 80 years, high school athletic teams from this town on the shore of a lake named for the devil have been called the Satans. Years ago, their mascot carried a pitchfork and roamed the sidelines in a red jumpsuit with horns and a tail.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: devil; football; princeofdarkness; satan
Now if we could just do something about that gosh darn New Jersey hockey team
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posted on
08/27/2002 7:51:25 AM PDT
by
gdani
To: gdani
Well, its just so obvious, isn't it? I think this is a blatant case of bias and discrimination against Demon-Americans.
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posted on
08/27/2002 8:01:13 AM PDT
by
egarvue
To: gdani
And in the event North Dakota ever gets a National Hockey League franchise, Buffalo Sabre's star rightwing Miroslav Satan will not be permitted to play.
To: gdani
Where is Michael Medlow? I'm sure he'd want to sue about this change.
To: gdani
These folks could sh*t diamonds. That's how tight-assed they are.
To: gdani
"There's no cult involved here. There's never been an uprising or demonstration at any of the games. It's just a nickname."Sometimes a nickname is just a nickname. PC strikes again.
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posted on
08/27/2002 9:10:59 AM PDT
by
rudypoot
To: gdani
The correct name of the town is "Devil's Lake." But modern journalists can't figure out such arcane matters as the use of apostrophes.
The really objectionable thing about the "Satans" nickname is that Satan is an individual. There are many demons, or devils. There is only one Satan, the Devil. It is nonsensical to make a proper name into a plural like that.
To: buccaneer81
These folks could sh*t diamonds. That's how tight-assed they are. I agree completely, and cringe when I read stuff like this. But yet, these same folk will wonder why they get marginalized by the press.
Cheerleaders are reworking chants to remove references to fire and brimstone.
Sounds like they used to have fun with it. It's a shame when the easily offended (on the right or the left) ruin it for everyone else.
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posted on
08/27/2002 9:21:45 AM PDT
by
Cable225
To: gdani
I called my first car the "Go-Devil"!
Guess that makes me a leetle dabul!
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