Well hell, I’d want my high school football team to be identified with that. If I had my way, I’d name the team the “Austin High Murderers” with the motto “Come onto our home field and we’ll kill you!”
None of these namby-pamby “Austin High Fuzzy Bunnies” or “Austin High Puppydogs”. I want a name that puts FEAR into the other team. If it takes meatpacking to do that, I’m okay with it.
I’m giggling to myself at the idea of a team of meat-eaters playing football against a team of healthy vegetarians.
[sub]Yes, I know of the euphemism for “corn-fed Nebraska beef” or whatever. But STILL. It’s FUNNY.[/sub]
No, they don’t “pack”, they “can”. Which is just as dispicable. Did you know the poor tomato is as sensitive and intelligent as the average orange? Most tomatoes are killed by being hung from their vines and slit open. Sometimes, before canning, they are mercilessly pulverized into a liquid paste. No, naming a football team after the monsters who perform these atrocities would be just as horrible.
Hehehe. As a vegetarian, lemme just say this is the most idiotic thing I’ve heard of.
Slight highjack: In the Dallas area there is a high school known as the Frisco Fightin’ Coons. Their mascot is indeed a mean-looking racoon. For those who don’t know, coon is also a derogatory term similar to the “N” word, used primarily in the south.
The school’s been called that for many years, and I seriously doubt that anyone really thought they we’re calling themselves the Fightin’ “N” words. Even if (especially if) every person in Frisco were card-carrying KKK members, why would they call themselves by a racial slur?
Politically correct uproar ensued a few months ago about the name. Dunno whatever became of it. I just think it’s interesting that many of the kids interviewed for the news had never heard coon used as a derogatory term. Congrats, Mr. and Mrs. Politically Correct. You have just taught our children another ethic slur!
I hadn’t heard about that. I had always wondered, though, as I always giggle whenever I drive past the old “Fightin Coons” water tower. And yes, you’re right about the PC gang essentially reviving a long dead racial slur.
You know, there’s a lot of good things that PETA could be doing. There’s a hell of a lot of animals out there that are being mistreated, puppy farms that are creating real-life houses of horror, dubious “experiments” that exist largely to keep grants alive, habitat disappearing, and valid arguments to be made for vegetarianism (although I’m not one and not likely to become one)…
and they WASTE THEIR TIME WITH THIS PATHETIC SHIT?
This is the exact same kind of inconsequential shit that kneecapped the left and turned them into pathetic “identity warriors” throughout the 80’s and 90’s. As if the left doesn’t have better things to do. As if PETA doesn’t. As if the rest of us don’t.
Hey! I just thought of a name for the team that would make PETA happy and inspire the bloodlust and terror that a football team should have! The O.J.'s! (Oh wait, that’d probably offend wife-beaters, damn.)
I’m not sure even the Flat Earth Society manages to cram so much stupidity into so few members. Remember when PETA protested the name of the town of Fishkill, NY? (Kill appears often in New York place names - it’s Dutch for stream.)