Sioux nickname to be retired by end of year

This makes me sad, it is such a badass team name and logo.

How about the Drunken Fighting Oshies?

9 months ago NaJaKwa 11 comments 0 recs |

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Florida State still gets away with "Seminoles" because apparently the Seminoles actually love the publicity.

The Fighting Illini of Illinois get to keep their nickname, but had to lose the Indian headdress mascot logo, then the actual mascot, just so the NCAA would stop fucking with them.

Yeah, this is going to end well.

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by Donut King on Aug 16, 2011 1:23 PM CDT reply actions

That's not accurate at all

FSU came to an agreement with the Seminole tribe to remove stuff that’s just stereotypical and develop a partnership that helps the tribe educationally. Oh, and they get paid.

Chief Illiawek (or whatever the fuck it was) was racist as FUCK.

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by Mike Martin on Aug 16, 2011 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm sure Illinois would have come to the same agreement, but I'll be honest . . .

I’m not sure an Illini tribe still even exists, and if they do, they’re on a reservation in a state that is not Illinois since there are no reservations in this state that I know of. But it figures that money (and thankfully, education) would be involved.

And I can agree with you on Chief Illiniwek. The only thing that would have made it . . . well, not OKAY, but more palatable . . . was if an actual Native American were doing the dance, and a board of Natives were controlling it. Which is about impossible these days since they’re all pretty much gone.

by Donut King on Aug 16, 2011 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions

They should switch to the Fightin' Swedes.

Because who doesn’t like Vikings or the Ultima Ratio cannon of Carl Gustav’s fleet? (Hey, if one of the high schools in Springfield can turn a Viking statue bought from a local lumber yard into a Spartan, North Dakota can turn a Lakota into a Viking.)

There were quite a few schols in central Illinois who had teams with “Chiefs” as their name. Just replace the old image of a Lakota in full ceremonial headdress with an Irish warchief of the Imperial Roman era brandishing a hurling club or the like. Or for that matter, how about Agent 86’s boss from CONTROL?

And if the NCAA continues their dickery, they should go from Fighting Sioux to Flying Fucks Left Ungiven.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Aug 16, 2011 2:23 PM CDT reply actions

I do enjoy the point you are trying to make . . .

and it illustrates every reason why I abhor Notre Dame.

by Donut King on Aug 16, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions

That and North Dakota apparently has an imperial buttload of Swedish-heritage people living there.

Usually people don’t care much what their team is named unless someone whines. It also backfired hilariously with the Fighting Whites of the University of Northern Colorado’s intramural basketball program. An attempt to piss people off turned into people embracing the name, particularly the people who were supposed to get offended by it. The only people who got pissed off were the people who couldn’t get t-shirts.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Aug 17, 2011 8:53 AM CDT up reply actions

Their new logo should be a lawyer with a briefcase...

… at which point they can call themselves the Fight ’N Sue.

by BleedBlue42 on Aug 16, 2011 3:27 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

Had to rec that one

since I blew tea out my nose when I read it.
Good one

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by luvhockey on Aug 17, 2011 8:19 AM CDT up reply actions

What a bunch of Penisloafs.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 16, 2011 6:21 PM CDT reply actions

Friggin' ridiculous...

Unless the tribe itself is complaining — and my understanding is that they are not — then the politicians can go fuck themselves.

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by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 16, 2011 7:50 PM CDT reply actions

From Wikipedia:

On May 14, 2009, The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education approved a motion directing UND to retire "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo, effective October 1, 2009, with full retirement to be completed no later than August 1, 2010. This directive was to be suspended, if, prior to October 1, 2009, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe gave namesake approval consistent with the terms of the Settlement Agreement. After extending the deadline for meeting this condition once, to November 30, 2009, the Board on April 8, 2010, unconditionally ordered UND to retire the Fighting Sioux nickname at the end of the 2010–11 season.

It sounds like even though the tribes weren’t complaining, they also weren’t willing to give explicit permission for the use of the name.

by BleedBlue42 on Aug 16, 2011 9:35 PM CDT up reply actions