[Libloather]

Margaret Cannell, executive director of North Carolina Operation Lifesaver, a nonprofit rail safety education and awareness organization committed to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at rail crossings and preventing trespassing on tracks, said this week that the organization is “extremely concerned about the proposed mascot change.”

Trains are scary.

[LukeL]

Just don’t be the boilermakers. Those things can explode and cause nasty scalding injuries

[Moonmad27]

Expensive choice to change the name from the Vikings. I can only imagine why the Vikings name offended some. Too European? Too historically based?

[Cowboy Bob]

I thought Selma was in Alabama. When did it move?

[KC_Lion]

The Johnston County Board of Education voted 5-2 last month to change the mascot at the school from the Vikings to the “Railblazers.”

So mascot is Carrie Fisher?

[Flick Lives]

Cannell said that she will be writing to the Johnston County school board, superintendent and the principal of Selma Middle School to request they select a mascot that is not railroad-themed.

“We strongly suggest that increased illegal and potentially dangerous activity might be encouraged with a ‘Railblazer’ mascot and that this be taken into consideration before a final decision is made,” she said.

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I was going to suggest the marshmallow as a mascot. They’re pretty safe. But with the sugar and all, it might encourage tooth decay. Perhaps pocket lint as a mascot.

[Vaquero]

https://youtu.be/vZkMVIPer8g

[TTFlyer]

Suggested mascot:

Padded Cell.

[small farm girl]

As a person who is far more Viking than Lizzy is Native American, all the Viking mascots and teams should go! It’s offensive, and cultural appropriation and something, something.
If the Indians, Redskins and Warriors have to go, so should the hokey horned helmets too!
100% sarc

[Buckeye McFrog]

Some group of aggrieved Vikings filed a complaint, did they?

[Chickensoup]

What about Tigers? I have always like teams named after fierce animals.

The Hartford Yard Goats...on the other hand, exemplifies everything that is wrong with Connecticut.

[bert]

putting aside all the political correctness, just what the hell is a Railblazer any way?