Hey, how 'bout the Canucks?
What’s also interesting to consider is whether the hypersensitive types would object to a mostly-white team calling itself one of these names. I’d expect them to grow very angry over the fact that the team is being horribly racist towards the non-white team members, and that they should change their name to something honoring honoring the fighting prowess of non-whites.
The PC types’ actions tend to hurt their stated goals; it’s hard to take a incidents of actual racism seriously when so often cries of racism are raised over silliness like sports team names, which don’t even offend the people they’re supposedly insulting to.
And sign me up for a Fightin’ Whities T-shirt!
You didn’t go to high school in Philadelphia by any chance, did you?
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Or the Edmonton Eskimos
What about the Yankees? An ethnic slur on the Dutch-Americans;) . But as long as they are a winning team, I won’t mind:D
The Fighting Ofeys
The Blue-Eyed Devils
The Man or The Men
The Raging Rednecks
The Walloping White Trash
The Trailer Park Terrors
The Frugal Scotsmen
The Typical French (would forfeit every game)
The Killer Krauts
The Drunken Cossacks
The English Soccer Hooligans
The Appalachian Inbreds
The Western Oppressors
The Greedy Gai-jin
The Dumb Polacks (nah, we’re not that intimidating)
If the opinions of the fine folks of the SDMB are any indication no lesson has been learned. I saw a picture of the mascot and I tried really hard to be offended. I couldn’t. I’ve yet to see a mascot based on a native american that I thought was offensive. So what if Chief Wahoo is built like a cartoon character? So is the Dallas Cowboy mascot. And no I don’t mean Crazy Ray.
Marc
Has anyone considered sending the Good Prof a link to the SDMB? Maybe he could explain his reasoning directly…?
You’d have a large fan base among scholars of John Webster… 
He screwed up using whites as the race, as most of us find the derogatory terms for us funny. If he really wanted to get attention he should have named them the ‘Knifin’ Negroes’ or something like that.
How about the Turnstile Jumpers?
Not ethnic enough? Try the Battlin’ Bruthuhs and their cheeleading squad, the Skanky Hos. They can do endorsements for Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor. Damn!
I’ll admit some surprise that any team would endorse the name “Trojans”. Aren’t they famous for getting suckered by that big horse and losing? It just shows the slipping academic standards at American universities. I’m waiting for someone to name a team “The Carthaginians”, who’ll get their field salted after every loss.
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Blame Virgil. Remember, in the Aeneid he depicts Aeneas as going on to Italy to found the city of Rome. And nearly every country in medieval Europe claimed a legendary Trojan founder (Britain’s was called Brutus – not the one who killed Caesar). Being associated with Troy was definitely a good thing. So, to answer your question…no, not really.
(Of course, it’s also true that more people were familiar with Virgil than with Homer back then…)
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D’oh!
-well, someone had to say it.
Shouln’t that be “ass”?
A good way to redo the Indian-themed logos is to revert to stylization as opposed to caricature. A good example is the Atlanta Chiefs’ logo from the bygone North American Soccer League (cf. the current Cleveland Indians “grinning” logo).
Six of one, half dozen of the other…
There is a Catholic high school here in Madison whose mascot is the “Crusaders”
As of yet, no Muslims have complained.
Also, sign me up for a fightin’ whiteys T-shirt and hat, if available.
I’m also going to name my softball team this summer the “Lutefisk Lovers”, even though I wouldn’t touch that crap if you paid me.
How about the “Quarrelsome Papayas”, “Acrimonious Pineapples,” “Bickering Breadfruits” or the “Irritated Guavas,”
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The mascot could be a large gray blob named “Poo Poo the Compassionate,”
Here you go. Order a T-shirt.
Though if you’re asking me (which you aren’t), I think the “mascot” looks like a guy from one of those '50’s billboards (the kind Fallout makes fun of). Hokey, maybe smarmy even, but not offensive in the least.
And putting “Fighting Whites” on your undies sounds like you’re making an effort to soil yourself.
Just to get it in here, I can’t let ANY thread like this go by without mentioning the all-too-real northern Illinois high school mascot, the Pekin Chinks. They changed it to “Dragons”, I guess to keep the wonderful Oriental theme going.
After following that thread, it occurs to me that they chose “Fightin’ Whites” as their political statement after failing to convince the local school from changing away from “Fightin’ Reds.” Looks like the Red Guard and White Guard are just whippin’ it up again, bloody Bolsheviks. On that note, I think “European imperialist oppressors” would have had a nice sound to it. Or perhaps “Eurotrash”, the mascot could be a drunken German discotechque type wearing leather and chains, doped up on ecstasy and passed out in some community fountain.