Pressures seem to be mounting for the Washington Redskins professional football team to delete the word Redskins because the word redskin has a pejorative meaning. I had thought that a big part of the problem is that they are a lousy football team and that if they were a strong contender for the titles, there would be less objection to the word. In this I may be wrong because in looking at Wikipedia, some of the biggest demonstrations have been when they played in the Super Bowl.*
Quite a few schools use ethnic names, "Scots" being particularly common.**
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins_name_controversy
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_sports_team_and_mascot_names
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