Reply #3: My mind is blown now. [View All]

[Jamastiene]

I'm actually one of those who feels neutral unless it actually seems to be hurting a lot of underpriveledged people.

On the other hand, I am offended that ages ago when I was in high school, the team was called the Richmond Raiders, but the actual mascot was a pirate. The richer county to the north of us was already using "pirates". I might have gotten into it more if they had let my school's team be the "pirates" and not the "raiders".

Aside from that, I was offended when I went to the "Homecoming Parade" one year and they had a real dead deer on one of the floats because they were playing a neighboring county with a team called the "bucks" or something like that. I mean they could have faked it or just used the antlers or something. Something about a small child witnessing the sight of real blood dripping off the side of a float onto the street doesn't set well with me. Or I should say, it bothered me as a kid. I'm not totally anti-hunting (seems ok for food only in my personal beliefs although I don't hunt), I just don't understand the morbidity of displaying a dead animal just because of a football game. Maybe that's just my take only. I dunno...