People who
go to a
high school have about as much interest in the name of the school as they have in the subjects being taught there. Their
main interest is getting it over with and graduating. People who play on a sports team have more interest in making money than they do in what the name of the team they play on is.
The people involved in a school/team name change
never held the original name sacred, and won't hold the next one sacred either. For
88 years, it never bothered anybody that the Washington Redskins were the Redskins, the name never really raised an eyebrow. Nobody paid the name much attention, then somebody whines about it and they have to make it politically correct so it no longer offends anybody (even though it never seemed to once in
88 years). They can even pick more neutral colors on their jerseys, how would their fans
like a team with neutral colors and a lifeless name to go with it? It would be
like playing a team called the neutered Bulldogs dressed in tiny pajamas versus the
toxic, rabid, drug-fed junkyard Bulldogs.
