Do you think Pro & College sports teams have the right to use Indians as mascots ?
536848
Definitely Not !! It's very demeaning and degrading.  None more so than the Cleveland baseball team. Its' logo is an awful characterization - beet red person, with buck teeth, stupid grin, etc.  \n\nConsider the following made up stereotype examples to understand the degradation(those that find humor are sick): \n\n1) The Portland Polacks - logo: short haired guy with pushed in forehead, hunched shoulders and a "?" over his head.\n\n2) The New York Negroes - logo: a very dark skinned African American male with a big smiling grin, salivating over a watermelon.\n\n3) The Jacksonville Jews - logo: a male with a hooked nose, long side hair, yarmulke, and counting money.\n\n4) The Georgia Girlies - logo: a naked big breasted female; with the expression "I love being sexually attacked"\n\n5) The Memphis Males - logo: a man holding his 4" penis; with the expression "Chicks sure dig my 9" love stick"\n\n6) The Arizona Americans - logo: A man and a woman in uniform, watching over an otherwise naked, hooded prisoner who is standing on a box with wires around his neck and made to fondle another naked male prisoner.\n\nIT'S ALL SICK, UNFAIR and DEGRADING.    The First Nations People (you called them Indians) treated the land with respect and were minding their own affairs.  Along came invading terrorists.  The inhabitants were robbed, raped, murdered, and enslaved.  Perhaps the past may never be adequately corrected; but the degradation must be stopped.  Surely there are symbolic mascots that are positive and fun.\n\np.s. I'm a huge sports fan, attending about 60 different sporting event per year.
378060
no. the violation has to be pretty bad to do that and the burden of proof strong.\n\nand its a bcs champtionship. college football is the only collegiate sport that doenst have a national champion because the bowls are greedy and too short sighted to have a playoff!
496053
yea, I do. They have been trying to set them selves apart from the way college football is for a long time. It is not a big deal the way it used to be, so I think it should be changed. It may be allittle harder for newcomers to understand who is who, but like Reggie, they would know anyway.
1053523
If you're referring to the mammal, I like them. \nIf you're referring to the football team, I could care less.
553588
I do agree w/ you about the Fighting Illini thing, they need to leave the U of I alone on that one..there isnt even an Illinwek Tribe....But anyways ur talking about animals here...
598990
No. Any baseball team shouldn't have cheerleaders... they should have mascots.
580006
i am also against reservation.then an another u answered my ques.sreesanth is not out of indian team he is still playing for india
387576
I think that the dress code is a little out of control. However, I do understand why it was implemented. I mean these dudes make millions of dollars a year, and they show up to a game in a white t-shirt and some jeans.... I think that the sanctions included in the dress code are a bit too strict. I don't feel like the players should have to dress up in a suit and tie. A casual but professional look would have been just fine.
896378
I no. they should sell their teams to other cities in the us so other people can have a shot. Dont go support those horrible teams
33
i would think to keep the "brand" recognition and the history of the Big Ten. the conference has invested a lot in building the Big Ten name as well as any merchandising and corporate sponsorship.
456621
I think the L.A. Stars had a nice ring to it, while being somewhat apporopriate for the locale.\n\nHowever, in keeping with the more traditional theme of animals, some that are native to L.A. that would make good team names in my opinion are:\n\nCoyotes\nBobcats\nMountain Lions\nGray Foxes\nRed-Tailed Hawks(shortened to just the L.A. Hawks, perhaps?)\nSea Lions\n\nThere are plenty more on the California Wildlife Center site at the following link, but not many of them would make good team names (The L.A. Striped Skunks, anyone?)  Link:http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/\n\nIt's worth noting that a couple of these are already used in other pro sports and college teams as well, so they should be plenty suitable for a pro football team.\n\nLastly, if irony is on the new commish's agenda, he can name them the L.A. Temps, since they'll surely move out in a few years anyway...\n\nHope this helps-\n--J.
330629
Kelvin Sampson was the right fit a Montana Tech, Washington State, and Okalahoma, so I see no reason why he won't be the right fit at Indians.  He is a winner, pure and simple.  He will never allow himself or his players to be outworked by the opponents.  I never was an Indiana fan, but I am a Kelvin Sampson fan, so Go Hoosiers.
232586
No, not "make or break", but they could potentially AFFECT the career, degree of success and longevity of that career.  If a player (to a much lesser extent a coach) has a problem, depending on the level of interest that the public might have in knowing about that problem, the "assasination of character' a player most certainly would face (the media is like a pit-bull on a pork chop when it comes to trying to "scoop" each other) would not only affect the fans interest (and hence attitude, i.e. booing vs. cheering), but coaches, general mgrs., and owners become jaded - and many athletes are psychologically fragile (touchy/sensitive), and their performance could very well suffer.
89831
Yes, they should be able to express themselves to a point.  It would be great if there could be no restrictions of behavior, but in reality, we must have restrictions on behavior in sports, just like we have restrictions on behavior at work, in public, etcetera.  All human behavior must have restrictions or we would live in Anarchy.  If sports figures were given complete control over what they were allowed to do and say, some would be responsible and behave in socially acceptable, non-offensive ways, but others would not.  Rules are a part of all areas of human existence, it is completely acceptable and necessary for them to be a part of professional sports as well.
64529
i think it is a total violation, i mean cleveland indians, with a cartoonish, red man... who would aprove of boston jews, with a silly picture of a jew? who would aprove of tampa mexicans? or atlanta black men? noone would. and just the same should go for native americans. on the other hand though, some real life native american chiefs consider it an honor. but for those that don't consider it an "honor?" it seems to me like a "forced honor" that, by the ways, degrades the native american people as a whole. good question.
14328
I think an Indians World Series Championship is bigger, because the Browns have just been so bad for so long, that I think their following is a lot smaller than that of the Indians.  The Browns Super Bowl would be a big event, but I don't think there are nearly as many true Brown fans, as there are Indian fans.
647737
YES. TEAM INDIA CARRY DOZENS OF HELMETS,ALL VARIETY PADS, GLOWSES,GUARDS,HARD PADDED SHOES AND BATS TO SCOOP THE BOUNCERS.;-].\nDONT WORRY. THEY ARE ALMOST SAFE.\nBUT THE VICTORY IS IN DANGER.