Posted on 08/12/2005 2:03:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
....Indiana University, whose athletic teams are called "Hoosiers," escaped the NCAA's nickname ban. But Indiana's jerseys don't say "Hoosiers." They say "Indiana," which means "Land of Indians."
By the way, the NCAA is headquartered in Indianapolis -- "City of the Land of Indians." How embarrassing.
The NCAA has banned the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" nickname. "Sioux" is the name for a confederation of smaller tribes, including the Dakota. If UND removes the "hostile and abusive" "Sioux" name from its jerseys and replaces it with "North Dakota," it will still have a tribal name on its jerseys. Obviously, the NCAA executives have not thought their plan through.
The University of Oklahama's football team wears jerseys sporting the university's team nickname: Sooners. Sooners were people who illegally occupied land confiscated from the Indians. (They got there "sooner" than the law allowed.) The university's basketball team wears jerseys bearing the state name: Oklahoma. "Oklahoma" is Choctaw for "red people." Both of these names are OK, while "Seminoles," approved by the tribe, is banned. Go figure..............
Absolute morons. I want those responsible for this idiocy tarred and feathered.
Simply idiotic. PC run amok. What do they intend to do now? Take appeals on a case by case basis and make themselves look even more out of touch with reality?
I head that too. He read the article by Andrew Cline LINKED in Post#1.
I think they'd like to escape this as fast as possible.
They look the fools they are.
He is a blessing.
They're back tracking, plain and simple.
If I remember correctly, the NCAA are the same clowns who banned any games (or something like that) in any state that flies a confederate flag....which singles out South Carolina and Mississippi.
I had the show on but must have missed it during a meeting. I'll go check out his site - thanks for the tip!
"VP for diversity and inclusion".....nuff said<P.
Do we have a pic/bio of her?
Also considering that the Apalachee Indians living in Tallahassee themselves played a football-like game (buckskin, though, not pigskin) long before British or American versions, this is really one of the silliest performances by the NCAA conceivable. From the Florida Center for Instructional Technology:
The Apalachees played a ball game that was a religious exercise as well as a sport. One village would challenge another to a match, and the two teams would have up to 100 players each. They used a hard clay ball (about the size of a golf ball) covered with buckskin. Players propelled the ball with their feet toward the goal post which was a pole topped with a stuffed eagle in a nest. They played the ball game in the spring and summer, and dedicated it to the gods of rain and thunder to ensure rain for their crops.
Well, I know that as a Christian I am offended by the use of "Crusader" so will the NCAA please restrict that name. Oh, and also the Friars and the Orangemen. Stupid is a stupid does.
Next they'll be banning the use of tigers on cereal boxes.
"Heck, let's "rethink" the obtuse NCAA, which has obviously been taken over by morons."
My sentiments exactly. Does not the NCAA govern with the consent of the governed? This should be the end of them. I'm sure they could find actual problems they could work on, should they choose.
I always like to jump in and point out that NCAA really means "No Colleges are Amateurs Anymore" (for those of you from Rio Linda, it means the NCAA is really just the semi-pro leagues).
Keep yer cotton-pickin' PC hands off my Chief Illiniwek.
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