OT: U of North Dakota releases official rejected nicknames list....
If you aren't a hockey fan, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux have been without a nickname since they were forced to drop the Fighting Sioux name back in 2012-13.
They're just simply known as "North Dakota".
The University of North Dakota in an OFFICIAL DOCUMENT released a list of every rejected suggested nickname.
Many of them are vulgar and it's unbelievable that the university would release them. To top it off, people put the reason for suggesting the nickname!
My personal favorite suggestions for UND's new nickname-
- Flaming Sex Panthers
- Big dick north dakotans
- Dicklickers
- Bush did 911
- asrffdsaasdffdsaasdffdsaa
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Illinois lost their mascot 10 years ago, Chief Illiniwek.
IIRC he wasn't based off of a real chief or even a tribe and he didn't have an offensive title. He just danced. The person who started the charge to get him banned was from Washington.
Great defense. "Hey, he's not even a real chief! He's just a stereotype!"
There were lots of native students at Illinois who were understandably offended by a white guy dressed up in a stereotypical costume doing a made up "Indian" dance. There were also some native students who weren't offended. But I find it strange that so many people need to cloak their defenses in a belief that no native people were offended when there have been both movements on campus to get rid of the mascots and while the most prominent American Indian political organization (the National Congress of American Indians) has called on colleges to get rid of mascots since the 1940s.
Here's the resolution from the Peoria Tribal Council, the most direct descendents of the Illini people, asking the University to stop using the mascot:
http://aistm.org/2000peoria.htm
When this passed, the Peoria tribal chairman said, "I don't know what the origination was, or what the reason was for the university to create Chief Illiniwek. I don't think it was to honor us, because, hell, they ran our asses out of Illinois."
When this passed, the Peoria tribal chairman said, "I don't know what the origination was, or what the reason was for the university to create Chief Illiniwek. I don't think it was to honor us, because, hell, they ran our asses out of Illinois."And of course, that's the real truth to the matter isn't it? Schools that appropriated Native American imagery for their athletic teams and mascots weren't doing it to honor them, they were doing it because they thought it would project a persona that was interesting, fun, and intimidating. It was only when Native American peoples began to find their voice on the tail end of the Civil Rights movement that the bullshit narrative around Native American mascots being adopted to pay homage to the historical tribes and nations that previously occupied those locales was created. The truth is that Native American mascots are a constant reminder of how marginalized these people have been in American society since it's creation.
I get that you are simply trying to be funny by way of exaggeration, but your so-called analogy is essentially the opposite of what is happening here. A Native American team choosing a Native American nickname and mascot isn't really the same thing as someone appropriating them.
They already have a name. PC is so fucking soft.
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Admittedly, I only skimmed it but there was some great creativity here, especially by those who obviously knew it was a non-starter:
"Fighting Boys Named Sue"
"Nasty Norwegians"
"Hopping Hitlers"
"Kurt Russells"
"Mentally Ill Horses"
"Cheap Shots"
"Dem Boyz"
"Village Bicycles"
Oh yes...."Children Of Yost" - wrong school, of course, but I like where their head is at.
Huh. Under "F" there are several suggestions for "Fighting Nazi" in honor of leading benefactor, Ralph Englestad. The wikipedia entry for him is... interesting.
Yikes...
He raised accusations of being sympathetic to Nazism owing to his collection of Nazi memorabilia stored in a private room within the casino-hotel, including a painting of himself dressed in a Nazi uniform (captioned "To Adolf from Ralphie"), a painting of Hitler with the reverse caption, and a collection of antique cars alleged to have once belonged to German Nazi leaders.
What's the o/u on dead teenage runaways buried on his property? I have 13.5.
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I found this one very amusing.
7th Cavalry
Shows history of North Dakota and shouldn't piss off any bleeding heart liberals.
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nickname as the Rainbows, until the LGBT political group got involved in making them change their nickname.
For a second there I thought you actually believed that.
"abcdefghjklmnpqrtvwyz The letters s, i, o, u, and x have deleted from the alphabet because we are not the sioux."
I am actually laughing out loud at my desk right now.
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I see that many respondents feel the same way.
I think they should go with a symbol like Prince did. No one was offended by that and you didn't have any miskates on pronouncing it.
Its a win win.
Mild, White, and Underwhelming, this name aptly embodies the culture of the university"
The Frickin Frackers.
I had to convert the list into a word document and eventually it told me that there's too many misspellings and gramatical errors to continue putting the little red or green line under words.
This list broke Microsoft Word.
- Flaming Sex Panthers
Dude, just because EA doesn't make the NCAA video game anymore doesn't give them the right to steal my create-a-school name.
Bison Bison - "BIson bison is the american bison and would one-up the NDSU nickname. Also, very scientific!"
Canadians - "All of your players are from Canada and you have Tim Hortons."
Around 130 pages of Fighting Sioux suggestions, including a few misspelled.
Fighting Suhakis - nice try
Suing Fight ("Because lawyers, man")
I don't know if these were all rejected immediately because some of them aren't so bad, such as the ones referring to the school's history in aviation, but I get why not. Thunderbirds is decent/passable, or at least the reasoning makes sense. ("Aviation, American Indian, said to create windstorms, aerobatics, can't spell Thunderbird without UND. Sacred symbol of strength and power.") I'm guessing that maybe UND wants to avoid any copyright issues or perhaps they've already chosen a name or narrowed it down to a few favorites.
The Fighting Mary Sues
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