Costas: Redskins 'an insult, a slur'

[petegz28]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/b...edskins-101313

[ILChief]

Originally Posted by jerryforeverrice80

bob costas wouldn't knew his ass from a hole in the ground.

But he might know it

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Solution: Just rename all teams to an offensive name. That way Everyone can complain.

Kansas City White Knights
Jacksonville Jigaboos
Los Angeles Gangbangers
Minnesota Weird-n-Uglies
Green Bay Beerguts
Carolina Hairlips
Miami Refugees
San Diego Beach Bum Hippie reeruns
Oakland Orange Jumpsuits
San Francisco Shit Pushers
Detroit Murderin' Blackies
St. Louis Crime Sprees
Washington Dumpster Divers
Tampa Bay Teen Moms
New Orleans French Black People
Buffalo Bank Accounts
New York Wops
New York Guidos
Denver Inbred Mountaineers
Cincinnati Shittytown
Seattle Suicides
Chicago Diabetes
Atlanta Chinks
Indianapolis Minimum Wagers
Dallas person of Hispanic heritages
Houston Brokeback Mountains
New England Spycams
Pittsburgh Sweaty Gross Steel Workers
Cleveland Nothing to see here
Tennessee Honkies
Philadelphia Rude Assholes
Baltimore Cracka ass Crackas
Arizona Reservation Alcoholics

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Did you hear about the Indian who won the tea drinking contest?

They found him dead the next morning in his teepee.

[ILChief]

Originally Posted by Canofbier

Honestly, I don't understand what all the outrage in this thread is about.

I'm politically moderate and don't have strong feelings one way or the other about the Redskins' name, but I really don't think that Costas said anything that unreasonable.

He mentioned that the majority of Native American-themed mascots are positive references to the culture. He acknowledged the fact that most people (Native Americans included) don't really take offense to the name "Redskins".

The main point he made was that Chief Wahoo and the Redskins are anachronisms, and I think he's right. Despite the innocent origins of the teams decades ago, there's no way that a new team in this day and age would adopt a name like the Redskins or a mascot like Chief Wahoo.

Essentially, he poses the open question: if the only reason to keep the name/mascot around is tradition (when clearly the name/mascot is asynchronous with modern society), is that reason enough?

If nothing else, it's a notion worth considering.

Just a right wing circle jerk

[KCFaninSEA]

&*+# Costas

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Solution: Just rename all teams to an offensive name. That way Everyone can complain.

Kansas City White Knights
Jacksonville Jigaboos
Los Angeles Gangbangers
Minnesota Weird-n-Uglies
Green Bay Beerguts
Carolina Hairlips
Miami Refugees
San Diego Beach Bum Hippie reeruns
Oakland Orange Jumpsuits
San Francisco Shit Pushers
Detroit Murderin' Blackies
St. Louis Crime Sprees
Washington Dumpster Divers
Tampa Bay Teen Moms
New Orleans French Black People
Buffalo Bank Accounts
New York Wops
New York Guidos
Denver Inbred Mountaineers
Cincinnati Shittytown
Seattle Suicides
Chicago Diabetes
Atlanta Chinks
Indianapolis Minimum Wagers
Dallas person of Hispanic heritages
Houston Brokeback Mountains
New England Spycams
Pittsburgh Sweaty Gross Steel Workers
Cleveland Nothing to see here
Tennessee Honkies
Philadelphia Rude Assholes
Baltimore Cracka ass Crackas
Arizona Reservation Alcoholics

The New York Wops and Guidos was my fav.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by frazod

If Howard Cosell was a sawed-off pussy.

He's not Cosell by a long shot. To me he appears to be trying to fill that role as the controversial media guy surrounded by jocks.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by trndobrd

"....and the 2014 Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleaders!"

I'd hit it...

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by frazod

THIS. You've got to think Snyder's raising hell over this. Squealing about this shit on MSNBC is one thing, but during a game featuring his team? And how could the other owners be happy about it? Hey, look, pussy Costas is ripping our product during the No. 1 showcase of our product.

Hopefully some liberal heads are rolling today. Sadly, I doubt of Bob's will be one of them. But it should be.

He should furlough all the native Americans on his team as they are not essential.

[Oxford]

Originally Posted by oldandslow

I am Choctaw...my wife is Lakotah...We have spent most of married lives around my wife's people in S. Dakota.

I agree that changing the name changes nothing and is basically just an academic exercise.

Still it needs to go.

Turn off the TV if you don't like it. Boycott the NFL if you don't like it. The NFL is a business and businessmen get to name their busnesses what they want. Prove this is racist, and not just what your opinion is. Personally, I'm tired of being called a cracker (which is racist or a type of food), but I'm not going to Keebler/Nabisco/etc to make them take that off of their product.

I do understand your point, and I do have some sympathy about the issue but the problem is that the more people like Costas whine about this, the less chance it has to be changed. Whiners like Costas just make the other side dig in deeper. Costas gets what he wants (publicity), and everybody else gets to deal with the collateral damage... which is Chiefs and Indian names are next.

[GloryDayz]

Yet the same .000001% hasn't had these things pulled from the shelves! One has to wonder if they'd sing a different tune if the owner tossed a few bucks their way, seem slike profitable insults to the Indian nation is OK.

[Braincase]

I think it's ridiculous that people that are not part of a minority are deciding what the minority should find offensive. If you're not part of that group, maybe you oughta just shut the f* up.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Braincase

I think it's ridiculous that people that are not part of a minority are deciding what the minority should find offensive. If you're not part of that group, maybe you oughta just shut the f* up.

oh blow out your ass. nobody has a right to not be offended.

your post is racist, at best.

[Bwana]

Dear Bob:

Go **** yourself, you grandstanding douche.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by stevieray

oh blow out your ass. nobody has a right to not be offended.

your post is racist, at best.

Not my point. My point is that if you're some white guy, you don't have a right to tell one group "There's nothing wrong with slur! You're just thin-skinned."

I'm not Native American, and I have no right to tell that group of people what they should or should not find offensive. If I were, I probably would be offended by the term "Redskin". I identify with my northern European heritage, and I don't find the term Viking offensive, because it's accurate and not really a slur.