Notre Dame's mascot is a short red headed man with a beard, wearing green. Running around and getting into fights.
 | I think this image is pretty insulting to Irish. To depict Irish as angry drunk people who want to fight is wrong (at least hypothetically). |
If you follow the NCAA you know they are cracking down on ethnic nicknames. If your school has a ethnic nickname, then you can be cut out of endorsements and post season play.
But are the Irish to follow these rules? In a word NO!
he University of North Dakota has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA over the latter’s mandate that the school drop its team logo and nickname, “The Fighting Sioux”, or face sanctions and fines in post-season play. This is all part of a larger NCAA ban on American-Indian based nicknames and logos in postseason tournaments.Why, you may ask? Because these nicknames are considered “hostile to Native Americans.” So, what do the Irish have to do with this? Well, there is a fairly well known college football team out of Indiana whose nickname is “The Fighting Irish” and last I heard the NCAA wasn’t particulary concerned over hostility towards our friends from the Emerald Isle.
Seems that Notre Dame gets all the breaks.
Fuckers.
