Thread: Bob Costas on the Redskins Name SNF Halftime

Veteran Sportscaster Calls Washington Redskins Name an ‘Insult, a Slur’ on National TV — Detractors Rip ‘Lecture’

Oct. 14, 2013 12:06am Dave Urbanski
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Veteran sportscaster Bob Costas gave his two cents on the ongoing controversy over the Washington Redskins moniker during halftime of the Sunday Night Football game between the Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys.
Suffice it to say, Costas is no fan of the NFL franchise’s name.
Bob Costas (Credit: NBC via YouTube)

“‘Redskins’ can’t possibly honor a heritage or noble character trait, nor can it possibly be considered a neutral term,” Costas said. “It’s an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent.” (You can check out video of his full statement at the bottom of this post.)
And a sampling of Twitter reactions, via Twitchy:



Here’s the full clip of Costas’ nationally televised remarks:




http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...p-his-lecture/


Change the name...why....how ridiculous is it getting out there???? If they must change thier name here is one for consideration:

The Washington Liberal Progressive Pimps

Obama Pushes a Redskins Name Change — While He Uses Tomahawk Missiles and Apache Helicopters


October 16, 2013

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Say what you want about President Obama, his sense of taste and sensitivity is matched by few in public office. Earlier this month in an interview with the Associated Press, President Obama said that if he were the owner of the Washington Redskins and he knew the name was “offending a sizable group of people,” then he would “think about changing it.”
Joining the president’s sentiments is NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who had previously shown support for the team’s mascot but has lately changed his tune a bit. During halftime of Sunday night’s broadcast of the Redskins-Cowboys game, sportscaster Bob Costas also weighed in, calling our capital’s team name “an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent.”
I have been very critical of President Obama these last few years, but thankfully there is finally something that I can agree with him on! And due to the president’s progressive credentials, I hope that he will lead stubborn Redskins owner Dan Snyder by example.


For example, it was barely a month ago that President Obama and his cabinet could not wait to get the U.S. into yet another war, this time in Syria. The warships were deployed to the Mediterranean. On Obama’s orders, they would have fired Tomahawk missiles into Syria.
A Tomahawk axe, derived from Powhatan tamahaac, was a hatchet used by Native Americans all over the continent. In popular culture, it is generally used to portray the supposed savagery of Indians, as a caricature, and to rally Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta (now talk about offensive!).
For the rest of the world, the American government’s version is an incredibly expensive representation of empire and hegemony, a hatchet from the sky that vaporizes towns on the president’s whim. Where is the outrage over this name?
If this were the only one, it might be easy to understand. But the list goes on. The U.S. military has named helicopters after Apache, Blackhawk, Chinook, Chamanche, Iroquois, and Kiowa tribes. The “Collateral Murder” video leaked by Chelsea Manning starred the Apache versions, giving a slight glimpse into what these helicopters are used for. And all of these weapons systems are at the president’s disposal.
If Robert Griffin III’s aerial attack needs a new name, then so does the president’s.
Why there is such silence over the use of Native American names for tools of death, destruction, and conquest when compared to a silly sports team? Since Native Americans themselves seem to be fairly disinterested in the matter, part of it undoubtedly stems from a culture of politically correct hysteria, where mostly white, guilt-ridden liberals pine over how racist and intolerant everyone else is. Bob Costas may shed crocodile tears over the use of the name Redskins, but I am sure he won’t think twice about cashing his check for covering their games.
But it runs much deeper than that. A society so acquiescent to militarism is not only destructive but also leads to a dangerous ignorance of history. Calling our sports teams Redskins and Indians may spark outrage today, but there is a reason much of our offensive military weaponry is named after Native American tribes: to the victor goes the spoils.
After the Civil War, the Union Army immediately looked west and began a military campaign that only can be described as deliberate genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Plains Indians. General Sherman, who boasted about employing “total war” against Southern cities, used the same tactics in his proposed “final solution to the Indian problem.” Decades later, it nearly was final, and the rest were gathered into concentration camps.
It is also interesting to contrast the violent and genocidal relationship the U.S. government had with Native Americans to the mostly peaceful cooperation regular Americans had with them. The Great Northern Railway, a private railway system running from Minnesota to Seattle, was built without government subsidies by negotiating and purchasing land, not by razing and stealing it. Early Americans, especially Quakers, regarded Native Americans as human beings deserving of respect and traded with them voluntarily in the free market.
Native Americans were the first people to be conquered by the U.S. government, and their names that now grace military hardware serve as a type of sick ode to this launching pad for further military adventurism, domination, and empire. A century later, nearly every single country in the world has experienced the wrath of an Apache helicopter or Tomahawk missile to the cheers and patriotic flag-waving of Americans on the home front.
But don’t you dare call a sports team the Redskins! Can’t you see how offensive it is!?
Yes, it is outdated and arcane. But so is the mindset behind militarism and an aggressive foreign policy. These are relics from the days of monarchs, not hallmarks of a supposed constitutional republic dedicated to liberty.
And if you ask me, given the U.S. government’s record of war, debt, and authoritarian laws, the Redskins should be ashamed of Washington, not the other way around.
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I think the Washington Redskins should change their name too

the Redskins is working

Washington is the part of the name that has got to go

@Bob Costas @Barack Hussein Obama

If the Team stays in Washington and Obama insists they change the name.... mmm How about

The Washington "Money Changers"

or

The Washington "Goose Steppers"

or

The Washington "War Criminals"

Bob Costas, Adrian Peterson, and Half-Assed Reporting

By Pauline Wolak / 17 October 2013







Hey Bob, thanks for the halftime lecture. I’m sure Redskins fan everywhere appreciated the insinuation that they’re racist for sporting the team logo. All that whining, even after you pointed out that pretty much no one, including Native Americans, are offended? Really? Way to go, Mr. Costas. I’m so glad you took the opportunity to run from a very real, very sad issue to take up one no one gives a d*mn about.
Meanwhile back in South Dakota, funeral plans are underway for two year old Tyrese Robert Ruffin. His tale is a familiar one. Mama moves the boyfriend in. Boyfriend is left in charge of a child he doesn’t give a d*mn about. Hours later he’s in a coma. No one, except perhaps Mama, is surprised to hear about boyfriend’s criminal past.
Joseph Patterson had a substantial arrest record before he beat Tyrese to death. Several assaults that included a woman and her three year old would raise red flags with most people. That he got near another child is criminal. Most of the time we hear these cases and our first reaction is, “what the hell was the mother thinking,” quickly followed by, “where the hell was this kid’s dad?”
Apparently he was in Minnesota, preparing for a football game.
The real tragedy is we wouldn’t even KNOW Tyrese were it not for his famous sperm donor “father” Adrian Peterson. The media, of course, ate it up. USA Today ran a story that mentioned Peterson in the first paragraph. They didn’t get around to naming the victim until the fourth. CNN ran a story headlined “Adrian Peterson plays through the pain of son’s death.” The AP, Reuters, Fox … they all ran stories about “Adrian Peterson’s son.” The sympathy poured in from every source possible.
At first I was horrified that Peterson chose to play so soon after the death of his son. But I reasoned it. It’s his way of coping, right? Everyone grieves differently. Still, burrowed in my mind was the fact that Tyrese essentially died alone. The only person to give him comfort was his mother. And she’s the one that invited a monster into his world, destroying it. It was as if Peterson had no emotional connection to him.
Oh, that’s right, he didn’t. The first time Peterson met Tyrese was last week. When he was in a coma. He didn’t even know he WAS the father until a couple of months ago. The man that raised Tyrese, Bobby Ruffin, had some choice words for AP. He took to Facebook, posting the following:

So tired of this poor Adrian Peterson sh*t. Let me blow all your minds. The boy who died was my son. Yes A.P. he was the biological father but I raised him and he carried my name. Tyrese Robert Ruffin. I don’t blame AP for not really caring cuz him and I both found out recently who the biological father was. AP met my son for the first time yesterday when my son was already in coma. I was here today when we pulled the plug, not him. He was happily practicing and has no problem playing on Sunday. So yea this isn’t all out yet but I’m sick of the poor AP sh*t. He didn’t know or even meet my son. Sorry for the outburst but put yourself in my place.

The media made the choice to run with the “Poor Adrian” story, completely ignoring the man that really had an emotional connection to this child. A man whose life was turned upside down. First finding out that his son wasn’t really his and then losing him at the hands of yet another man mere months later.
The media ignored the truth in exchange for the BS that sells papers. Peterson is just another famous athlete with too much time and too few condoms during the off season. As long as these guys are scoring touchdowns or making baskets it doesn’t matter how many children they leave in their wake. And the women that indulge them are no better. What are you hoping for? A ring? Real, honest love isn’t found in the back of a limo or the VIP room of the latest club.
Tyrese died because the adults in his life were selfish b*st*rds, only concerned with their own needs. A fling. A meal ticket. A little fame. Different reasons born of the same inward-looking attitude.
Bob, maybe next week instead of lecturing the fans you could ask the players to start acting like the men they pretend to be for the cameras.
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arvee50.../photostream/; author: Arvee5.0; Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Links:
http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/20...redskins-name/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...n-son/2988263/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/us/adrian-peterson-son-death/
http://globalgrind.com/2013/10/12/everything-we-know-about-joseph-joey-patterson-the-man-who-killed-adrian-petersons-son-photos/

http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/10/14/...er-son-killed/






About the author: Pauline Wolak



Pauline is a proud stay-at-home wife/mother of three. By “at home” she means everywhere but home. Chairing the school board, jumping into frozen lakes for charity, and fantasy football are three of her favorite things.


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