HUB-BUB ABOUT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

HUB-BUB ABOUT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nancy Miller)

(Patrick Marley, Joshua Z. Lavine)

(Teapotmom, Frazer Chronicle)

 

What a waste of time, how can we, as mostly a reasonable people, be duped into such an irreverent issue as apparently some women feel the need to address…..at least here in Wisconsin. To me the subject matter is just that, it doesn’t matter! Now the Grand Old Party (Republicans,) who control and run the state legislature, will take up the mantle, waste a bunch of time, and finally for once and all settle the debate of what state high schools can call their athletic teams.

 

Silly frivolous and outrageous are just a few of the words that come to mind for me when I try and explain what stupidity seems to be going on throughout our country. Changing history, jerry-rigging political districts, omitting nick-names, slang terms, or epithets, whether hurtful, bigoted, or just plain ludicrous, have we become so civilized that we need to alter our thinking process.

 

If that was the case, exactly where would all the racists go, how would those people with low-brows find a place to express themselves? And what would happen to those Captains of Industry who play at being benevolent towards their workers of color, I mean where exactly would they meet for the quarterly summits…..ah yes, the problems of a capitalistic society in the 21^st century.

 

I’ve known the Washington football Redskins as that, (Redskins,) all of my life, I used to know the Marquette basketball Warriors who somehow have morphed into the Golden Eagles. And what about the Boston Braves…..Milwaukee Braves…..Atlanta Braves, actually the same team in different eras, yet in each time period, the Braves.

 

I hope by now you’ve figured out what in hell I’m lamenting about…..for me, kind of the end of an era, next will be my old high school nick-name, Trojans, somebody somewhere is gonna get the ruffled feather syndrome and become insulted by the name, Trojan and want the school mascot changed because the name (Trojan) referrers to a contraceptive devise…..will it never stop?

 

Now you take my school nick-name, Trojans, we used to have fun with the name when I was in school, I mean it was harmless, kid fun, that probably today would be stopped, and we’d get our butts kicked out of school. But can you see the humor in “blown Trojans, ripped rubbers, or the very best one, Blown-jans.” School was, and is for learning, scoping the ladies, playing a little athletics…..and in hindsight, learning about life.

 

A school nickname or mascot won’t hinder the basic processes most important to the school experience which is to learn some book stuff, but almost as important, to learn how to carry one’s self, and to react, and interact with adult authority figures and class-mates. School nick-names and the mascot controversy can distract from that basic goal…..and it’s time to stop.

 

OF COURSE THERE’S ALWAYS THE BIZARRE

Weirdness can be the key word when young people are searching out an institution of higher learning, one which can be called home for four years. I remember search schools of interest to me when I was that age…..about a hundred years ago. And during my search through brochures that I’d gotten from my high school I discovered the wonderful world of college sports teams mascot name.

 

The Tufts University Jumbos or the University of California Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, how about the Syracuse University Orange, and the Williams College Ephs. All weird in their own right, but can they compete with some of these; College of the Atlantic Black Flys, or the St Louis College Pharmacists, and how about the Concordia College Cobbers, Trinity College Trolls, and last but surely not least, Whittier College Poets.

 

Whoever made up these school’s nick-names, and mascot figures were working overtime, way late into the night, conjuring up all sorts of names and images probably with the help of some adult libation no doubt.

 

Some of the professional nick-names and mascots came from…..well, it actually is hard to say, some simply do not make any sense. The New Jersey hockey team Devils or the Las Vegas 51’s allegedly for area 51 located about 80 miles from Vegas. Other strange mascot and nick-names, the Chicago football Bears, the hockey Blackhawks, and the basketball Bulls.

 

And who could forget the Milwaukee minor league baseball Cream, or the Boston baseball Bees, Rustlers, Doves, Bean-eaters, or Red Caps.  Of course there was the St. Louis baseball Perfectos, Browns, and Brown Stockings.

 

However by far the most colorful of all professional franchises, bar none would be the national league baseball Brooklyn entry, known through the years as the Robins, Dodgers, Trolley Dodgers, Superbas, Bridegrooms, and simply the Grooms, all used before the teams most to Los Angles, California.

 

Like I said, (it’s time for people to get off their soap box about such a silly subject) and get on with their lives. Have some fun…..it’s what non-participation sports are all about. As fans people are supposed to be entertained by what happens on the field.

 

COULD YOU IMAGINE CHANGING THIS SIMPLE DEVICE’S NAME

Okay I got to thinking, and as you can tell, I think all the hullabaloo about changing sports team’s nick-names is a whole lot of busy bunk. The silliness brought on mostly by Indian women…..as detailed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, needs to stop. With little exception high school mascots have absolutely nothing to do with any kind of racial intent.

 

To me the mascots, like warriors Red Skins, Red Men, Chiefs, Braves, Indians or Tomahawks pretty much pay homage to the Native American people. I never thought about the name(s) in a derogatory manner, and when I first heard, several years ago about people denouncing the mascots, I was surprised.

 

So with that spirit in mind, I searched for linked subjects, kind of, to illustrate the problem our society might have if the powers that be decided to change the name of a women’s brassiere. Now I realize that a women’s bra barely correlates to a sports team’s nick-name…..but bear with me; here we go!

 

1. Over the shoulder boulder holder.

2. Double barreled sling-shot.

3. Tit Sling.

4. Flopper stopper.

5. Booby holder.

6. Knocker covers.

7. Glad wear

8. Chest torture device.

9. Double D shoe horn.

 

Now I ask you, what women in here right mind would want the devise that she usually wears each and every day of the week from the time she’s in her middle teens to the end of her days, would want to change the name to anything other than what it’s called, a bra, for whatever it’s worth…..it’s got my vote.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!