Why Is Pride Important In Football

As I am one of the many people offended by these players actions, it seems the people most offended are the ones serving or that have served our country. A letter was sent to the commissioner of the NFL, “They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for

A fan once said “There goes the Redskins season” and most times they are right. Although some people find this offensive. Not for the season part but for the name of the teams. For at least two years now fans and simple people have debated whether or not the teams name redskins was offensive to the Native Americans. Some say that it was offensive to the native people, Others disagreed. Having a team named after you is always respectful but in this case it is very offensive to the native American people.

Countless people worldwide have different opinions on the National Anthem protest in the NFL. Some people think it’s a good idea of protest and agree with what those players are protesting for, some people are just hard headed and don’t want to look at the bigger picture and just call it outright disrespectful to the flag and the military. A large number of people find it appropriate and support what those players are fighting for because they are exercising their first amendment right, and that shows how educated someone is. People also support this protest because it is very peaceful and is not resulting in a harmful way that endangers people. The National Anthem protest is an extremely appropriate form of protest, because it gives athletes the chance to perform an act that can have them killed or punished extremely in other countries.

Snyder and others strongly believe it’s sacred and deserves to stay with history behind it. The tradition started from tribes and chiefs back in the settlement time. Everything now is respect for the tribes in our nation. The biggest point that the United States wants to get across to the public is pride. In today 's society there is a blind love for the teams and mascots we have today. The hidden picture is seeing that the sports side of our world has the biggest appreciation for Native Americans. Harjo says, “it’s not about choosing sides, it’s about doing the right thing” (Wulf).

Teams that have the name like Redskins, Indians, and Red Raiders are racist terms used as mascots. Interchange the name with the Negroes, the Jews or the Asians and that sounds even worse but, it all means the same thing. They are all racist terms that no one should use to represent something like a team name. According to racismagainstindians.org, Native Americans were banned from practicing their own religion and would be often thrown in jail if they were caught all the way up to 1978. But when nonnative people at sporting events would dance and sing their songs it would be completely okay. This makes no sense,

What is considered offensive? Is it considered offensive to use obscenities around children? According to many people in the United States, it is sport team names and mascots that depict a certain group of people are considered offensive. People around the United States are trying to get professional sport teams to change their names and mascots because they feel it depicts their certain race in bad way. Teams should have to change their mascot and their name if they are named after a certain group of people.

Fans attend sporting events to escape politics. However, players are booing at kneeling NFL players are clearly disliking the kneeling, according to salon.com. Nytimes.com states that fans stand up and boo when players kneel during the anthem. Fans come to get away from politics, not towards it. The fans spend good money to come see these games, and they do not want to see players being disrespectful. People in the crowds are even making signs that are telling players to get off the field if they can’t stand during the anthem, while others are still

Even though not everyone may view it in a negative light, it is understandable some people consider it to be racist. In Baseball there are multiple teams that utilize disrespectful names such as “Savages”, “RedSkins”, and “Indians” to represent themselves. The sports industry states that the reason behind the sports team names is to honor the native culture, it is arguable that the reasons behind their actions are not the purest. Are they really honoring the native culture, or do they just really enjoy the name? Of course some people within the sports industry may be ashamed while others do not even care. It is a total disrespect to native Americans. Supporters for these teams act as if they do not realize how cruel it is; by painting their faces, dress into Indian clothing and continue to deliberately mock them by the doltish lyrics of their team fight song which specifically says the foul/racist lyrics “Scalp’em, Swamp’em we will Take’em big score Read’em, Weep’em, tochdown! We want heap more!” As if they are truly honoring the native culture. What they are truly doing is making a laughing matter out of the Native American culture and because of this, the majority of Native Americans do not receive the respect they

or many years now many people have been debating whether schools and professional sports teams should use Native American imagery, nicknames, and logos to represent mascot. “When I was a kid, me and my friends, we really thought that they had captured and killed Native Americans and pasted them all over the building,” Samuel Henry Washington Redskins fans said. “We were just kids, we didn’t know any better. But we really, honestly believed that,”. Many people need to respect how the professional sports team or any teams use Native American imagery, and when teams use Native American mascots, it is not an offensive slur against them.

Watching football is awesome. You get to hang out with friends and family, eating chips and drinking sodas. It was Columbas weekend and the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins were playing. During the game, native americans were angry and wanted to stop the game, but it didn’t. Native americans, later, were protesting to change the name because it is offensive to them. Some say that the team should change the name, while others say that they shouldn’t. The team's own says no, some of the fans says no, Dan Snyder says no, and Jason Begay says no. If people looked at this not as something atrocious, but as something positive, there wouldn’t be a problem.

Racism is classified as an attitude or belief that favors one group over another (Farley 2012). It is obvious that racism is occurring in sports logos and mascots based on this definition. However, this racism isn’t only against one group or minority; it involved a multitude of groups that are faced with the hardships of having their culture subjected to. This includes cultures such as the Chinese, Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics to name a few. The logos and team names that we will be discussing range from being blatantly disrespectful and rude to only somewhat inappropriate. Some of the teams that have abused these cultures and taken names from a variety of sources include the Pekin High School Chinks, the Washington Redskins,

What exactly is seen as offensive? Different people would answer this question in many different ways. But for some Native Americans today, one of their answers would be the names of major sports teams. For these Native Americans it is unacceptable to use slurs such as “redskins” as a major sports team name. A humanities professor at the University of Houston-Victoria, Macarena Hernandez, would agree (Crowe, ). However, Dr. Philip Suarez, a Redskins fan, believes that the name is not intended to be offensive whatsoever (Crowe ). Many Redskins fans do not consider what the name means for a majority of Native Americans.

Using Native American mascots for sports logos is offensive to their culture because the creators of these images use exaggerated features that only portray all the negative stereotypes that people think about Native Americans.

Sports teams should be more careful about their actions surrounding their mascots. They should think before they act on their actions. They might think it is not offensive but to other people it will be offensive to them. For example, there has been news that the Cleveland Indians have been protested because of their jerseys.

To me and many others this is just hurting the game. The players have fun celebrating, and encourages the players with them to have fun and relax also. So why would they flag something that encourages teammates? I play football and celebrating with teammates can get you excited to keep going. Plus flags make kids and fans in a bad mood which can affect their behavior at the stadium or at home. I wouldn’t want to be the parent of a mad child because their team lost because of celebration flags. Honestly that may not happen, but it is the NFL, who knows what can happen.