Tag: redskins
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Yet More Redskins Stuff: Kudos To The New Yorker
This topic is becoming a recurring them on my blog, which isn’t exactly a bad thing. Got to walk the walk if you talk the talk. The New Yorker was rocking it last week. Now scroll down for the article link. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/11/24/beneath-the-covers-the-real-story-behind-the-new-yorkers-thanksgivingredskins-cover-so-arrogant-and-clueless-a-mascot-that-it-lends-itself-to-some-kind-of-exposure/
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On Dan Snyder, The Redskins, Free Speech and Flag Desecration
Wow! That’s a lot for one little article, eh? A few weeks ago, I posted on my support of the effort to encourage Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL football team, to change it’s name. A similar post planted elsewhere on the web stirred up a dialogue with a fellow I know from…
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An Open Letter To Dan Snyder & The Redskins: Time To Rebrand
Not so many years ago, the NCAA forced my Alma Mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–located in the town of Indiana, PA–to abandon it’s historic nickname, mascot, and iconography as “The IUP Indians.” A lot of folks were resentful at the external pressure, a lot more were like me and just thought it was a big…