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Pelicans is a Kraken-level mascot name. Unique, perfect for the location, and spectacularly silly. How dare you.
I still think Kraken sucks. Maybe I just haven't had my Monster Energy tall boy yet today.
Pelicans is a Kraken-level mascot name. Unique, perfect for the location, and spectacularly silly. How dare you.
I would've liked the Red Tails a lot better.
This. For a team that had a racist name and a racist history with "fight for old Dixie", I thought this was a great opportunity to keep Red in the name and honor some military heroes. That organization can't get anything right.
Should have gone with Pigskins.
The lyrics were "Fight for old D.C.", as in Washington, D.C., where the team was from.
Have you gone through life thinking this?
After they changed the original “fight for old Dixie” lyrics in the 60s when the team finally integrated.
http://www.espn.com/page2/wash/s/closer/020315.html
Where today's song cheers fans to "Fight for old D.C.!" the original version's "Fight for old Dixie!" played directly to the fans' Southern identity. And while the Redskins still use a racial slur for their team name, some words in the original fight song didn't do much to deflect accusations of racism. Where the song now says, "Beat 'em, swamp 'em, touchdown! -- Let the points soar!" it once went, "Scalp 'em, swamp 'em -- We will take 'em big score / Read 'em, weep 'em, touchdown! -- We want heap more!" The lyrics were subsequently cleaned up in the '60s, after Marshall's Redskins were, notoriously in 1962, the last pro team to integrate.
I'm also struggling to find racism in the ""Scalp 'em,
It sounds stupid. But look at all the professional team mascot names. There are tons that must have sounded so stupid at the time when they first were named. I mean I get the reason behind both, but the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills? I know these make tons of sense now historically. But at the time they must have at least sounded a little silly? Titans? Wizards? Pelicans? Some are just weak.
I still think Kraken sucks. Maybe I just haven't had my Monster Energy tall boy yet today.
Should have gone with Pigskins.
Washington ForeskinsI was in favor of the Deadskins