School Mascot Change

I'm offended by the University of Massachusetts Minutemen

Long ago (70's) the college I was at changed it's mascot from the Indians to the Mavericks. I think no one cared much about the team's being the Indians but the logo (a pot-pellied Indian) was certainly riding the line. All the associated side named (squaws, etc) didn't really make it look good, along with the fact the mascot was often seen (when dressed up) either carrying a jug or silly looking hacket.

The renaming was a major to-do. The swimmers liked the Muskies but the wrestlers don't like being named after fish. The women's teams didn't like most of the "masculine" logos, etc, so mascots with swords, hammers were out.

They finally settled on a Maverick which no one liked but had an "aggresive" but not "warlike" mascot representation.

Why not suggest a change from the Red Raiders to the Blue Raiders and dig up a bunch of Civil War outfits. Works with Lincoln, and guarenteed to light a whole bunch of people up.

The Lincoln Emancipators

yoop wrote:

The Lincoln Emancipators

Thought of that, but a dancing emancipation proclimation would be right up there with the dancing Cardinal.

I remember when Stanford was the Indians. They went through a period of turmoil. They were taking suggestions. The Stanford University seal has a tree on it, so their goofy (but excellent) marching band thought it would be a great idea to call themselves the Stanford Trees. They began pushing a tree on wheels around during their halftime show. In fact, I think they still do it. It's funny.

The school ultimately rejected the tree suggestion, along with another popular one, "The Robber Barrons," and settled on just naming them after the color cardinal (and not the bird--hence the singular form and not the cardinals)--although I guess since cardinal is red, Native Americans could just continue to be offended.

Why not just change the mascot to just the Raiders, dropping the color? What is a Red Raider anyway? Where did the expression come from? Can it really be traced back to being a racial epithet and not just an illiterative combination? And why aren't the commies offended?

a red raider has nothing to do with race.

it is a red colored viking/norseman.

There is not dancing Cardinal at Stanford. They have a tree to bust a move for the fans

themack wrote:

a red raider has nothing to do with race.

it is a red colored viking/norseman.

But that would offend womyn of Shetland and Scots heritage... those awful red-coloured Norse raiders pillaging our coasts!

If they do not like an Injun name, go with COWBOYS.

Are you changing to colors too? or just the mascot?

My high school broke off into two high schools, so we got to choose the colors and mascot for the new school. We choose the mascot: trojans and colors: yellow and brown (piss and sh*t). The administration deemed this to be too much and changed the mascot to the vikings.

Fighting Banana Slugs.

Worked for University of California-Santa Cruz.

Hey man, I feel your pain.

The Ole Miss Rebels had their mascot taken away since it too was "racist." Colonel Reb was the mascot for years, but looked too much like a "plantation owner." We currently have no mascot...it's ridiculous.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/1/18/ColReb.jpg

I dont see any better option than the Lincoln Assassins.

Is Orofino (Idaho) still the home of the Maniacs?

'round here, a lot of teams are going with weather-related names....Storm, Thunder, Lightning, Reign (play on "Rain" -- Washington joke). It's quite safe and quite boring. Go, Lincoln Storm Clouds! Woo hoo.

P.S. Since the Washington Bullets had to change their name to the Washington Wizards some years back because "bullets" promotes violence, I don't see "Assassins" hitting it big anytime soon. Good one anyway though.

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P.S. Since the Washington Bullets had to change their name to the Washington Wizards some years back because "bullets" promotes violence, I don't see "Assassins" hitting it big anytime soon. Good one anyway though.

The Bullets didn't have to change their name -- the owner (Abe Pollin) decided to change it after his friend Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. Interestingly enough, it never seemed to occur to him before, even though DC had long been the murder capital of the US. The name change was a joke, too, as they narrowed it down to a list of finalists (including the totally ridiculous Sea Dogs) and made a pay-per-vote phone line to vote on a name. They never announced the results, and just claimed Wizards had won by a large margin. I'm guessing Sea Dogs actually won.

I was involved in a discussion the other day about teams getting really scary names, like "cancer" or "gingivitis" or "pregnancy (especially at a high school)."

That would strike fear into the hearts of the opponent.

I think Lincoln Logs is cute but as a person with Irritable Bowel Syndrome it offends me.

The year after I left, my middle school changed their mascot to the Panters because the original was sexist. Wanna know what the original mascot was? Wait for it......

The Patriots. That's right, Patriots is sexist because only men were patriots, and Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, and all those other women, didn't actually exist, or something. I'm as left leaning as they come, but damn.