Sioux Women to Introduce New Sweaters.... The Minnesota Wild 4th Jerseys (RW77)

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Per Brad Schlossman:

The Sioux women will debut the new Sioux jerseys against Lindenwood (not the park in South Fargo). Surely the women will smoke the first year Lindenwood...whatevers but what's more interesting is the jersey. Well, I'd show you the new picture, but... for some reason the image crashes my Firefox browser. So here is the link to it. (Maybe goon will be able to upload it successfully).


Well, for comparison, check out this jersey. (Again, I skipped the image due to it crashing Firefox).

Yup. Pretty much color changed, text changed, done, swap Wild logo with interlocking ND, done.

What they should have done was: drop the Est. 1883. And replaced the stars with mini airplane logos like something similar to this.

I'll end this post with the following:

I'm not really interested (though I won't prevent it) in the "This jersey sucks because it's not the Fighting Sioux" commentary. The truth is: The beloved nickname is dead. The idiots at the NCAA and the PC morons with contributions from Stenejhem (sp?) took it away from us. It's not coming back. I thank those who fought the good fight including the tribe that stood behind us but it is over.

So let's make the best of it. I think, for something I'm sad to see happen, it's a pretty good stopgap.

NCAA has no shame, still selling Fighting Sioux logo

If you haven't seen this letter to the editor it’s worth a read, it was posted in today’s letters to the editor in the Grand Forks Herald. I think it's hypocritical as well, the NCAA want to ban the Fighting Sioux logo because the NCAA say it’s hostile and abusive but then NCAA is still making money off of the Fighting Sioux logo. Shameful!!!

GRAND FORKS — In 2005, the NCAA made a decision that schools with tribal logos and/or nicknames — including UND — were to be sanctioned, originally because they were deemed “hostile and abusive.”

Those sanctions would not allow UND or other schools like it to use tribal names or logos in post-season play nor could they host post-season championships.

Asking universities to do away with these logos — even suing schools and threatening them with sanctions — is a bold move. Therefore, the NCAA as an organization certainly should not be promoting let alone profiting off of the very logos it is against.

But the NCAA has not stopped selling the logoed wear of the schools that it has sanctioned. Hundreds of UND items are available on the NCAA’s website, www.shopncaasports.com. This at a time when the Sioux men’s hockey team will be participating in a prominent NCAA-sanctioned event.

Despite threats of the UND logo going away, the cost of Sioux apparel is up, and the rise doesn’t appear to be stopping. But go into any local retailer, and these items are flying off the shelves. Sioux apparel continues to rank among the hottest sellers.

It is interesting that the NCAA has not taken a hard stance on this and stated that regardless of the position of the school, the organization would be the first to stop selling the logoed apparel.

Has anyone associated with UND, the State Board of Higher Education or even the North Dakota attorney general’s office discussed this with the NCAA? Why is the organization profiting off of something it is so against?

Jennifer Dame

You've got to be kidding me...

Student Costumes at Hill Murray Game Called Racist: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com

All I can say is, Wow!!! You have got to be kidding me?

FOX 9 was at that game, and saw the Hill Murray students dressed as gorillas and a banana, a practice that the school’s principal said has been happing since last year regardless of what team they’re playing.

According to the principal, the costumes grew out of what’s called the “banana cheer.” Though she declined an on-camera interview, she did say that “if there were any malice, we would put a stop to it.”

Video shows the same students in the same costumes at the girls’ state tournament, when Hill Murray beat Alexandria.

Still, there were a number of Johnson parents on Friday night who did not know the costumes were typical, and instead took it to be a racial statement. A few of the players also said they were offended.

Yet, one father said he felt whether a person finds the costumes racist will depend on their perception of what they mean, and he equated the controversy with the one facing the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” mascot -- which the NCAA is pressuring the school to drop