Sports team names

The then-chairman of the Seminole Indian Tribes of Florida, Inc., told CNN a few years ago that the tribe was never going to let Florida State University change the Seminoles nickname, and the Florida branch made a deal with the Oklahoma branch to go away.

 

During the last legislative session in Minnesota, Native derived nicknames were banned unless the school in question is on a reservation and like 90% native or unless the approval of all the state's registered tribes regardless of whether or not they have an interest in that particular community.

Some have quickly complied, like Esko, which won a state baseball championship this month just before eliminating its "Eskomos" nickname, which is basically just a pun on a term that isn't even used anymore.

Others are more thorny, namely the Warroad Warriors, a community with a large Native history and population that intends to seek a waiver to keep their Native designed logo. You've probably heard of them during hockey season. T.J. Oshie went there, as did Henry Boucha (who is Native), and seemingly dozens of Marvins.

In Warroad, concern mounts over Minnesota bills prohibiting the use of American Indian nicknames

Another hockey writer in our company, who has significant ties to Warroad, has been doing a lot of lobbying for keeping the name. I found that a little debatable, though he just used one of those Warroad connections to write a girls hockey coach mutiny horror story that has set Minnesota on fire and is doing crazy numbers (and has netted him some threats). Seriously, it was being discussed on every show on KFAN for multiple days early last week.

Abridged version: Angry parents told a coach with U. of Minnesota playing experience that he "just didn't have it" after leading their team to the state championship game.

One and done: Here's what pushed Larry Olimb to resign following Orono's state title game run

 

The Spiders were the nickname of a Cleveland team, just not sure if it was the Naps/Indians/Guardians franchise.

 

Ready-made theme song (with plenty of alternate/backups... "For Those About To Rock...")

as well as celebrity/superhero mascot:

... along with still-living legend Rocky Colavito

 

We could have had this:

 

Headlines for Rocks or Spiders would’ve been great.

 

It all started with Stanford in the early 70s, going from Indians to Cardinal after a student vote (the Stanford Band nominated Robber Barons).

When they came from Philadelphia, the Warriors had a full headdress as their logo, but that's been gradually phased out, most notably by a cable car, of course.

Use of Redskins by high schools in California was phased out by 2016 by law. Of the four using that, Gustine became the Reds, Tulare and Chowchilla the Tribe and Calaveras decided to go nicknameless. Other schools have dropped Native American nicknames either via school board action or student votes.

 

A school in the Bay Area was actually reevaluating their mascot/name which is Dons - seemed someone dressing up as a Don (a Spanish landowner) may have edged too closeley to cultural appropriation - or maybe they just wanted a cooler nickname like Blue Dragons?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Spiders?wprov=sfla1

The team owners sent their best players to another team they owned in St. Louis and the Cleveland team ended up being contracted.

 

Compton Tarbabes.

 

Thank you for the info and, specifically, mentioning Henry Boucha.
Henry is a wonderful person who battled several personal issues after his NHL career ended early. What career Henry had was never the same after the Dave Forbes assault.
I haven't spoken to him in at least a year, maybe two. At that time, he was facing heart surgery.
1972 Olympic silver-medalist.