Last Dance For U of Illinois' Chief Illiniwek

C'mon Starman, that's different. He was honoring all those blacks with their natural talent for song and dance.

 

I was gonna post the Jolson but thought it would be way too over the top.

NIce work, Starman.

 

Cracked me up when ESPN showed a couple girls/young women crying during the last performance. I'm glad that mascot is gone.

 

The student Chief fans are the biggest dorks, I'm sorry. I'm friends with Illini hoops fans, real ones and recent grads, and they think these fans are idiots, the Chief overrated. Why aren't more fans upset that their shooting guard left their reserve center to die in a car while the point guard didn't do anything to help?

 

Covered a couple of games there. The first time I saw the whole Chief thing I was just floored.

I was pretty much, "I can't believe they do this."

 

This is the same state that allowed Pekin High School to have a mascot called the "Chinks" all the way into the early 1980s.

Like I said, the dance itself is laughable. The self-importance of the guy is what makes it hysterically funny.

 

That was Mike Downey's comment in the Trib today, and it was brilliant.

 

East High Scho

East High School in Rochester, NY, still uses Orientals as its nickname. It's the alma mater of former Bearcat horse puncher Art Long.

 

When I was in the Akron area a little over a decade ago, Akron East was the Orientals too. Not sure if they still are or not.

 

Orientals are rugs.

 

Yeah. They changed their names to Asians. Or maybe it was Occidentals. I can't remember which.

 

Outing alert: Ace is really manky_jimy