2012 NFL Uniform Thread - Nike takes over

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Originally Posted by SBXVII

Ha, ha, I clicked on the link on the last site:

Uni Watch » What Do You Mean ‘We,’ Paleface?

The article is funny and the Q&A is even more funny. It's ok for Utah and FL State to use their names. It's ok for the Vikings to use that and the Fighting Irish.

If a team name like Indians is bad, what about a team name like Vikings?
That’s apples and oranges. The Vikings were not a victimized class subjected to genocide, theft of their land, etc. The issue here, at least from my perspective, isn’t about ethnic stereotyping; it’s about systematically destroying a culture and then using that culture’s imagery as if it belongs to you, which it doesn’t.

What about the Fighting Irish?
See above.

So the Irish have never been "a victimized class subjected to genocide, theft of their land, etc." Interesting...

Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black and Tans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But this person is right, the French founders of Notre Dame weren't "using [a] culture’s imagery as if it belongs to [them]."