Say goodbye to the Fighting Sioux

micropolitan guy · Feb 20, 2012

The story makes no mention of the NCAA where Minnesota or Wisconsin are concerned. It simply says they generally do not play teams with Indian names as mascots.

Since they always play Illinois in every Big Ten sport, and certainly would play Utah, or any other school with an Indian name for a mascot, in the postseason, they are hypocrites of the first order.

And I still can't understand the NCAA's stubborn lack of accommodation on this issue, since the Sioux reservation closest to Grand Forks - the only one of the two in the state whose tribal elders allowed the issue to be put to a popular vote among tribe members - have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the Fighting Sioux nickname.

It's all about NCAA administrators being stubborn dickheads because ... well, that's what they are.

BNWriter · Feb 20, 2012

doctorquant said:

Heard a Roger Alan Wade song on XM Outlaw Country the other day. It's a play on the old Johnny Cash "Boy Named Sue" ... It's called "A Sioux Named Boy"

Well my daddy left home when I was 33 and he didn't eat as much as momma and me
And he was the only Indian on the reservation named Roy
He'd watch them Tarzan video tapes and sit there and get as drunk as an ape
And before he left he went and named me Boy

Then momma said he said I wasn't his, and what he said I was I can't say I guess
But I reckon I ain't no Iroquois
All know is before they got a divorce he said something about Crazy Horse
And life ain't easy for a Sioux named boy

Well I thought I was an unfortunate lad then I grew up and I saw they had
A room named after where people peed
And all them people they came and went and me I never made a cent
And so I got to lookin' for what was comin' to me

And it was Bakersfield in mid-October and it'd been a while since I'd been sober
And I hit the Palace in my blue courderoys
And out there dancin' in his cowboy boots, just dancin' like a cheeta to the Buckaroos
Was that egg-suckin Sioux that named me boy

Well I went up and grabbed him by the collar and he said Boy give me a dollar
And why don't you get me and Jane a beer
Well about that time old Jane passed out and dad went staggerin' thru the crowd
And I caught up with him and he said let's get out of here

Well we wound up splittin' a patty melt and I told him just the way I felt
And he just looked at me and took another bite
I said what's wrong, he said I'm full, I said why didn't you name me Sittin' Bull
And he said boy give me a light

He said Boy there ain't no doubt, after the way you turned out
If I ever have another son...I'll name him Sweet Potato, Two Nuts, anything but boy

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Hysterical!! LOL

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