"I despise the NFL. I hope dittoheads boycott the superbowl."

Great idea. Another way for dildoheads to make themselves miserable.

"he is a rich loser with 20 million followers"

Speak for yourself. A good portion of those 20 million people probably wouldn't refer to themselves as "followers" of someone because they listen to a radio show. They probably think that sounds just as pathetic as the rest of us do.

"The indians in question are a bunch of filthy stinking bigots, and NEED to be treated as such."

That post is moronic and needs to be treated as such.

"Redskins" is a word that only had a racist usage before some idiot decided it would be a good team name.

"Celtic" is not a racist term. That would equate the two words as having similar usages betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of the situation.

"What about the Fighting Irish stereotype?"

Does anyone view this as negative? I'm sure if you somehow worked the stereotype of the "Irish curse" into a mascot, there would be plenty of people of Irish ancestry howling about that........

My favorite Irish stereotype is the "Irish Goodbye" - which I had used many times before ever hearing the term. I was about to link to the Wikipedia article on it, which had a very nice description, but some jackass deleted it.

"But if we lose the Redskins let's also lose the 49ers, Chiefs, Raiders, Buccaneers, Cowboys, Vikings, Packers, Texans, and Saints."

Why do some of you insist on pretending that "Viking" is a blatantly racist term like "Redskin" is? Is it that hard for you understand the difference between a racial slur and just a word used to describe a profession - like "Cowboy" or "49er"? You're embarassing yourselves - or should be at least.

"It's supposed to be a negative stereotype, but the Irish aren't a bunch of thin-skinned cry-babies, and they (we) could care less because there are more important things to do, like drink."

The live mascot looks like a little ballbag but I've never heard anyone say "Fighting Irish" is offensive (other than me and that's just to annoy Notre Dame fans). More than likely, it was an Irish-American that coined the nickname (looked it up and it appears nobody is sure). So how you going to compare Irish administrators at a school putting "Irish" in a team name with white dudes in DC naming their team with pretty much the Indian N-word? Not even close.

If an English sports team named itself after a pejorative for Irish people, you could bet there would be some pissed off people in Ireland. The closest parallel I can think of in real life would the Orange marches in Northern Ireland (people who took their land rubbing it in their faces) and those were routinely met with riots.

"I'm a FSU grad. We get the same crap from bigots not wanting FSU to use the name "Seminoles" for our team."

Seminole is not a racist pejorative term. Redskin is.

I don't understand why this flies over so many of your heads. It is really not that tough to understand.

"And there is nothing derogatory within the name of Redskins--isn't it a warrior thing?"

Are you fucking serious? Its an insulting term other people made up. You really think Indians called themselves "Redskins" on their own? Do you think their skin is really red too? Do you think they think their skin is red?

"Except they're not upset.

The only ones "upset" by it are the Professional Indians---that is, the various gut-eater interest groups whose sole job is to look for new and exciting grievances to become agitated about."

What you are saying defies common sense. How could you possibly claim to know this? Obviously, only certain people are offended enough to take it to court. But that means that nobody else with that background finds it offensive that a pro sports team is named after a racial pejorative that applies to their ethnic group? You meet an Indian, you call him a redskin and he's cool with it? Bull-fucking-shit. There's no way the majority of these people are cool with "redskins" despite your inexplicable claim to the contrary.

"hehe...."Yankee" was deragotory slang brits used to use to refer to americans a few hundred years ago."

Nope. Brits didn't invent the word and they say "Yank" not "Yankee" anyway. It originated here and has meant alot of different things from pirate to resident of New England. And obviously, unlike Redskin, people who the word describes came to embrace it hence the song Yankee Doodle Dandy. "Redskin" is uniquely racist among American pro sports team names.

"So...way to go supreme court! thanks for perserving freedom of expression"

The lawsuit had nothing to do with freedom of expression. The lawsuit aimed to invalidate the trademark on the basis that you can't copyright a racist term, which would actually make the use of Redskin and the associate images more "free". Problem is that makes exclusive merchandising impossible for the team, so they'd probably have to change their name over money. And the ruling did not do anything to affirm the right of the team to trademark the term. The ruling was a punt. They basically said the plaintiffs would have to be younger because if they were offended by Redskin, they should have said so sooner. Younger people have already file the same suit and its pending. Might want to read the article before commenting on its contents next time.

I like how Chickenshit is telling me to get a life while double posting replies that don't even come close to making a valid point.

Don't tell me what threads you think it is OK for me to post on, Chicken. Your opinion means nothing to me.

"In addition, when federal judiciaries tell folks what names are allowable is a prime example limitation of freedom expression (whether that be couched in trademark or not)."

They aren't saying what names are allowable. It is already illegal to trademark a racist term. Two different isssues. You clearly don't understand the lawsuit but still jackassedly insist that you're right about this.

I found completely different info on the origin of the word "Yankee", BTW.

I understand that political correctness is out of control in the US but I find it funny that so many people over react by pretending that NOTHING is racist.

Bottom line is that if you don't understand that "Redskin" is a racist term, you're a moron.