It's like watching two people you can't stand getting in a fight.
Pioneer Press | 10/04/2002 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Gophers 31, Illinois 10: Gophers hit books, knock fight out of IlliniGlen Mason, passionate about academics, sent his University of Minnesota football players to class Thursday afternoon, even though their Big Ten Conference home opener against Illinois was just hours away.
He shouldn't have bothered. The Gophers did enough schooling Thursday night.
On second thought, remove "like" from that first sentence.
Not sure mentioning academics and the Gophers is a good idea, all things considered. Yeah, different sports, but same program, and as I mentioned earlier, I can't stand 'em.
That last is not another Singin' In the Rain reference. Much.
And as for the Fighting Illini, well. . .
Every once in a while, some fool will mention the Vikings, or the Fighting Irish, in debates about Indian mascots. Time was, I'd try to explain the major, obvious hole in this logic.
I was more patient when I was young.
Nowadays, I'm confident Every thang's gonna be all white.
Want to know more? See the News-Gazoo's illini sportsfacts online, which I'm sure will be updated before the paper hits the streets this afternoon. For morning dead-tree info, check the Daily Illini.
Dave Eggers worked for 'em back in the day, if I remember a'right. Which I probably don't.
Update: Insert cruel speculation about why the team name -- Fighting Whites, no second "i" -- is constantly, and consistently, misspelled.
I'm gunna throw down my $.02 in, what with bein the unnoficial indigenous contigent (tm) of uppity-negro.com and all.
Much like affirmative action, gripin' about mascotts don't make nuthin better. Eradicating every symptomatic representation of stupid and hatefull you fund don't make the hate any less real. I'd much rather we just got back to killin whitey than tryin to get that fool to see the light. You wouldn's believe the volume of indianz who think it is thier sacred duty to watch over the lil crackers until they get grown up and enlightened. scuse me, i was choking.
*uppity disclaimer:for those of you fixin to contest my affirmative action comment here's a lil note: Affirmative action is designed to "level the playing field". Guts points to the individual that contests it is level.
I don't know whether the shirts came before or after the misspelling, but a bunch of the shirts the teams sells actually say "Fighting Whities".
I'm thinking about buying one (I like the mascot shirt and the stripes) but I'll admit to being bothered by the slogan. The stereotyped guy is pretty funny, but the slogan "every thang's going to be all white" carries some frieght in Texas that it may not carry in Northern Colorado. Or maybe it does and that's the real point.
Really should read those copyright statements:
It would keep me saying stupid things. Well, some of them, anyway.
Ginger, I don't believe in Texas. It's just a conspiracy of cartographers.
Gee, I think affirmative action is a stupid idea too... but wait, I'm a white guy. Quick, somebody slap me hard.
'Everything is going to be all white' sounds less to me like a team slogan, and more to me like a description of what happened when I tried to use bleach in the laundry for the first (and last) time...
I don't know. I noticed I had the most recent entries for most of the column, so I'm going for a clean sweep. Do I have to actually SAY something?
YOu might not believe in Texas, Aaron...but, um, Texas believes in...you...
???
Um, coffee anyone?
first off i am not leaving my real name or address for i dont want to be bothered. i stumbled accross this website and am ashamed to have found it. who ever made this site is un-educated, un-cultured and plain out dumb. learn to spell and use proper grammar, retard!
I love people who say "use proper grammar" yet can't figure out how to use capital letters.
Hmmmm, yes . . . and it's not rally indicative of greatness of intellect when the best method you have of critiquing someone else's brainpower is to call him a 'retard'.
Perhaps I should speak to this one in a language he can understand, yes?
Bugger off, you weak-ass, sorry blogroach!
Was my grammar o.k., there?