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Doug Gotjew said yesterday there were less black bears in Mississippi than black players on the football team. I laughed.

Sudden Sam wrote:

Okay. But...ummmmm...yeah, black bears live in Mississippi and all, but...I really don't think about bears and Mississippi together. And they're the Rebels. So...whatever.

A pic of Fred McDowell on the helmets would be better. He's more Mississippi than anything.

fucking looks like Al Jolson

i saw that in some article that reffed some school in Illinois or Indiana that had a mascot that was a derogatory term for the Chinese....that had to change. wtf were they?

Zipperheads??

King Crimson wrote:i saw that in some article that reffed some school in Illinois or Indiana that had a mascot that was a derogatory term for the Chinese....that had to change. wtf were they?

Haven't heard about that one in Indiana. When I lived in a Dallas suberb (Frisco) their mascot were the Coons. They ended up being forced to change the name to Raccoons because of all these black people protesting their mascot name, even though Frisco at the time was at least 90% caucasion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/640209/posts

ha! In my link, here's your answer:

I grew up in Pekin, Illinois, a small town exactly on the opposite side of the world as Peking, China.
Our nickname was the Pekin Chinks. [And yes, it got changed years ago.]

but I do like this comment in there.

Did they say which lawyer represented the offended racoons?
The should change their name to the "We Bend Over And Take It Up The Wazoo For Liberals". I'll admit it's not a catchy name, but it's true.

I had heard that the Black Bears in Mississippi were actually called Louisiana Black Bears. They should have gone with Colonel Akbar.

SoCalTrjn wrote:I had heard that the Black Bears in Mississippi were actually called Louisiana Black Bears. They should have gone with Colonel Akbar.

Lucasfilm wrote them a letter telling them that they couldn't use Akbar.

Killian wrote:

SoCalTrjn wrote:I had heard that the Black Bears in Mississippi were actually called Louisiana Black Bears. They should have gone with Colonel Akbar.

Lucasfilm wrote them a letter telling them that they couldn't use Akbar.

unless they wanted to pay a fee to USC and its film school.

I don't really think of black bears and Mississippi going together either. But IIRC, "black bear" was selected because it's an anagram for Abel Ackbar. Although it looks to me like there's an a missing.