Posted on 10/09/2007 5:40:42 PM PDT by GOP_Raider
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech has banned the sale of a T-shirt bearing the likeness of Michael Vick hanging the dog mascot of rival Texas A&M.
The red and black shirts, with text that says "VICK 'EM" on the front in an apparent reference to the Aggies' slogan "Gig 'em," was created by a Tech student who was trying to sell them before Saturday's game in Lubbock.
The back of the shirt shows a football player wearing the No. 7 Vick jersey holding a rope with an image of the mascot Reveille at the end of a noose. Vick, who faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal dogfighting charge, is suspended indefinitely by the NFL.
Tech officials late Tuesday announced the fraternity that sold the shirts was suspended temporarily and will face judicial review for allegedly violating the solicitation section of the students' code of conduct.
The school said it wouldn't allow the sale on campus of items that are "derogatory, inflammatory, insensitive, or in such bad taste."
No more shirts are being produced, the school said in a release.
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Tasteless...but damned funny.
It did make my laff.
I prefer the “Tuck Fexas” shirts.
I did not realize that Sand Aggies had such a good sense of humor.
The problem with that is how many of the students recognize that it's misspelled?
I am pretty sure the Tech students realize it, but not sure ut kids do.... ;^)
It was made from a bicycle’s handle bars, front has a muzzle and at the rear it has a huge screw.
ROFL! But it does have to go.
“The school said it wouldn’t allow the sale on campus of items that are “derogatory, inflammatory, insensitive, or in such bad taste.””
Isn’t Texas Tech a state school? Such a ban would seem to me an obvious 1st amendment violation.
Isn't the atmosphere of our state intitutions of higher learning wonderful? This is apparently 'over the line', but in Colorado it is okay for a state school newspaper to print "Taser this: F**k Bush."
Personally, I think that is a hilarious t-shirt.
Well, normally I like dark humor, but this one gives me the creeps. I guess I’m too much of a dog person to find humor in the horrible things Vick did to those poor dogs.
Tasteless and very incorrect. I hope the kid made some beer money from it before they shut him down.
I am going have to tell my Aggie roommate about this.....after I put some body armor first!
I saw one that said,
Save a Dog
Neuter M. Vick
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