The Chief is NOT a mascot, and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
Posted on 08/05/2005 8:52:05 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments, but will not prohibit them otherwise.
The NCAA's executive committee decided this week the organization did not have the authority to bar Indian mascots by individual schools, committee chairman Walter Harrison said Friday.
Nicknames or mascots deemed ``hostile or abusive'' would not be allowed by teams on their uniforms or other clothing beginning with any NCAA tournament after Feb. 1, said Harrison, the University of Hartford's president.
``What each institution decides to do is really its own business'' outside NCAA championship events, he said.
Guidelines were not immediately available on which logos and nicknames would be considered ``hostile or abusive.''
The NCAA two years ago recommended that schools determine for themselves whether the Indian depictions were offensive.
Among the schools to change nicknames in recent years over such concerns were St. John's (from Redmen to Red Storm) and Marquette (from Warriors to Golden Eagles).
The NCAA plans to ban schools using Indian nicknames from hosting postseason events. Harrison said schools with such mascots that have already been selected as tournament sites would be asked to cover any offensive logos.
Such logos also would be prohibited at postseason games on cheerleader and band uniforms starting in 2008.
On behalf of the color red, I demand they change their name to the Chicken Hawks, or Chickens for short.
Unfortunately, it's an Indian tribe. Maybe they'd best change their name to "Latter-Day Utes".
Way to get back at Brand!!! General Robert Montgomery Knight is tha MAN!!!
LOL!!!!!!!
LOL. It doesn't bother me that much. I just think the Indians logo is an awful charicature, and I think the Redskins are an awful name. I don't dwell on it, and I don't boycott these teams or sports because of it. It's just one person's opinion :)
Just some indian history.
Umm, yeah, and plenty of our forefathers exproporiated their land, massacred them when they complained, and marched many of them from the Carolinas to Oklahoma.
Just some American history.
But I'm sure some neo-Jacksonians will come along to claim that it actually wasn't about taking the land and running them off, but really about state's rights, chivalry, etc....
How could it be a tribe?? There were only two Utes.
(nice My Cousin Vinny reference by the way!)
the "Florida-Stomped-Us Semi-Holes"
Don't know about Illinois, but for FSU 'Probationers' might be accurate...
Criminoles.
Well...what we need to crack down on is teams like Nebraska at Omaha....how can a team be called the Mavericks? It's kinda like the Lone Rangers...it just doesn't work.
Hey how can he be called the Lone Ranger? He was never really "Lone" He always had Tonto by his side...and Silver and all.
The Chief is NOT a mascot, and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
"Next they'll ban Schwarzenegger..."
Be careful how you say that! :)
The Florida State University Casino Owners.
Knight is the man. I don't see it happening but the greatest poetic justice ever would be Texas Tech winning the national championship in Indy this year and watching Knight accept the national championship trophy from Brand.
HAAAA Haaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaa! Good one.
Bobby Bowden: 0-1 at Bobby Bowden Field.
The point is indians are not innocent as the driven snow, as much as those who want to blame every evil on white folks want to believe.
We would all be better off today if we were all equal under the law. Indians claim special rights under the law. They feel they are more equal.
This whole business about renaming teams, is really about trying to irritate normal people (those who dont claim to be "more equal"), if the truth be told.
No, but opening casinos will sure help them! No more problems with alcoholism on Indian reservations.
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