Redwing77 Unsolicited Opinion on the Nickname Debate

I thought about posting this as a comment to the SayAnythingBlog post on this site, but I think it would be better if all the "hate" that might come from my opinion be posted in the comment section below rather than in Goon's article.

My opinion is this:  The "no nickname" cabal will fail.  I don't know how soundly it would fail, but it will fail.

Why?

Because, as offensive and insensitive as it sounds, those who opposed the nickname for years were marginalized and now they've tasted power.  Now, their opinion matters and to put it bluntly, those who spent their time as activists in this crusade no longer have it as a crusade.  In other words, they got their way.  What is an activist who gets their way?  Not sure, but they're no longer an activist.  If they're not an activist, then they'll sooner or later be ignored once again as they've got what they wanted and they should just "shut up and move on" themselves.  This. cannot. be.

So, the activists find a new banner to wave.  And here it is, ladies and gentlemen:

No new nickname means the inference of the old one.

In other words, we're not replacing Fighting Sioux with a new nickname, so people can still fill in the blank.  It sounds ridiculous (because it is), but I truly feel that's what they'll argue.  We've already seen it with the call of those same activists to ban all Fighting Sioux memorabilia and gear from Campus and Campus events (including home hockey games).

Since the PC crowd now has societal control, the only viable option to keep UND out of the PR nightmare that has owners being forced to sell teams because of one stupid epithet (even if it is illegally obtained and reprehensible in nature), financial outpourings due to some imagined or wrongly interpreted transgression is to create a new altogether different nickname.  One that preferrably refers to an inanimate object (like a Sabre) or fictional being (like a Dragon) or some sort of action word (like Crushers) or force (like Lightning or Thunder).

So, the good news is that we may not be the Flickertails, but we will be "something."  And what it is will be the least of all evils via politically motivated nonsense.  In otherwords, the option no one really likes but doesn't overly object to it enough for UND to lose that much money.

Sure, I'd support wholeheartedly the no nickname cabal, but I do so knowing that, in all likelihood, it will not succeed.

Related articles

• Sayanythingblog: 'No Name Is Best Way To Move On'(ndgoon.blogspot.com)

  ---