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NFL Great Mike Ditka (R) Goes Off On Redskins Criticism: 'So Much Horse Sh*t'
Mike Ditka has had enough with the campaign to get the Washington Redskins to drop its racially charged name.
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The politically conservative Ditka, who bragged last year that he could have beaten Barack Obama in Illinois' 2004 U.S. Senate race, ripped the "liberals" who have lobbied for a name change and expressed solidarity with Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, who has repeatedly said he won't change the name.
“What’s all the stink over the Redskin name?” Ditka said in the interview, which was posted Thursday. “It’s so much horse shit it’s incredible. We’re going to let the liberals of the world run this world. It was said out of reverence, out of pride to the American Indian. Even though it was called a Redskin. What are you going to call them, a Proudskin? This is so stupid it’s appalling, and I hope that owner keeps fighting for it and never changes it, because the Redskins are part of an American football history, and it should never be anything but the Washington Redskins. That’s the way it is."
"Its been the name of the team since the beginning of football," he continued. "It has nothing to do with something that happened lately, or something that somebody dreamed up. This was the name, period. I mean, leave it alone. I mean, these people are silly — asinine, actually, in my opinion.”
Da Bears
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The politically conservative Ditka, who bragged last year that he could have beaten Barack Obama in Illinois' 2004 U.S. Senate race, ripped the "liberals" who have lobbied for a name change and expressed solidarity with Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, who has repeatedly said he won't change the name.
“What’s all the stink over the Redskin name?” Ditka said in the interview, which was posted Thursday. “It’s so much horse shit it’s incredible. We’re going to let the liberals of the world run this world. It was said out of reverence, out of pride to the American Indian. Even though it was called a Redskin. What are you going to call them, a Proudskin? This is so stupid it’s appalling, and I hope that owner keeps fighting for it and never changes it, because the Redskins are part of an American football history, and it should never be anything but the Washington Redskins. That’s the way it is."
"Its been the name of the team since the beginning of football," he continued. "It has nothing to do with something that happened lately, or something that somebody dreamed up. This was the name, period. I mean, leave it alone. I mean, these people are silly — asinine, actually, in my opinion.”
Da Bears
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FAIL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins#Franchise_history
The team originated as the Boston Braves, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall. At the time the team played in Braves Field, home of the Boston Braves baseball team. The following year the club moved to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, whereupon owners changed the team's name to the Boston Redskins. The Redskins relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1937.
in his football days.
Guy's a fucking dinosaur.
