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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I thought so too this weekend. FSU has exactly the same logo as the Redskins but are called the Seminoles. I went to a game in Tallahassee in 1997 and I've yet to experience anything cooler than 80k lunatics screaming the war chant as loud as possible accompanied by an entire marching band pounding out the drums and Chief Osceola riding out on the field on his bad ass paint horse and planting a flaming spear right at center field. That would give fits to the All Blacks and their Haka.
It's all in the language. Englishman is fine. Chinaman is not. Seminoles are honored. Redskins is the name we gave Seminoles way too long ago.
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FSU is officially approved by the Florida Seminole nation to use the name. Over the years, they have changed some of their pregame and in-game traditions to better represent the Seminoles, as opposed to generic "Indian" stereotypes.
On the other hand, you have North Dakota, which used to be called the Fighting Sioux, but the Sioux nation did not agree to approve that usage, so they have been forced by the NCAA to change their name. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that they will now be known as the Fighting Hawks.