UMinn Vikings and Redskins

[EastStang]

Don't know if you heard about this. The Vikings are having a new stadium built. So this season they are playing their games at UMinn. The Redskins are on the schedule. UMinn has asked the Vikings to ask the Redskins not to use their name on their uniforms, to not have the name Redskins on tickets, schedules in programs or other things at the game. Universities meet the NFL. By the way the Vikings are paying UMinn $250,000/game or $2,500,000 for the privilege of using their stadium. If I were the Redskins I'd ask that the game be played in Green Bay or Detroit, or Calgary.

[PSCA]

Interesting ... The Redskins will not agree to that .... will see what happens.

[NavyCrimson]

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[East Coast Mustang]

White liberal guilt run amok.

Snyder should fly a plane overhead with a banner that says HAIL TO THE REDSKINS in big letters.

[PonyKai]

Minnesota must be trying to get its football program in the news since it hasn't been there on its own merits since....ever?

[JoeKidd]

I don't know if anyone else notices this (or will be able to even see my post) but it appears that all the text on the messages is disappearing on this topic.

[couch 'em]

Very ironic considering 'Viking' is about as close to equivalent to 'Redskin' as you can get and Minnesota was heavily settled by Scandinavians. The Vikings logo is an offensive caricature on a Chief Wampum level with the ridiculous horned helmet.

[B1GPonyFan]

So what

[RyanSMU98]

Not real surprised; this is the state that sent Stuart Smalley to Congress after all. Can't imagine the Skins agreeing to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIETlxquzY

[malonish]

Very ironic considering 'Viking' is about as close to equivalent to 'Redskin' as you can get and Minnesota was heavily settled by Scandinavians. The Vikings logo is an offensive caricature on a Chief Wampum level with the ridiculous horned helmet.

Vikings (from Old Norse víkingr) were Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern and central Europe, as well as European Russia, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age.

Viking is based on as word used by them to describe themselves. Just putting it out there...

[East Coast Mustang]

Viking is based on as word used by them to describe themselves. Just putting it out there...

http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/redskin.pdf

[couch 'em]

Very ironic considering 'Viking' is about as close to equivalent to 'Redskin' as you can get and Minnesota was heavily settled by Scandinavians. The Vikings logo is an offensive caricature on a Chief Wampum level with the ridiculous horned helmet.

Vikings (from Old Norse víkingr) were Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern and central Europe, as well as European Russia, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age.

Viking is based on as word used by them to describe themselves. Just putting it out there...

irrelevant to my point, but even that is debatable

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=viking

Viking (n.) Scandinavian pirate, 1801, vikingr, in "The History of the Anglo-Saxons" by English historian Sharon H. Turner (1768-1847); he suggested the second element might be connected to king:

The name by which the pirates were at first distinguished was Vikingr, which perhaps originally meant kings of the bays. It was in bays that they ambushed, to dart upon the passing voyager.

But this later was dismissed as incorrect. The form viking is attested in 1820, in Jamieson's notes to "The Bruce." The word is a historians' revival; it was not used in Middle English, but it was reintroduced from Old Norse vikingr"freebooter, sea-rover, pirate, viking," which usually is explained as meaning properly "one who came from the fjords," from vik "creek, inlet, small bay" (cognates: Old English wic, Middle High German wich "bay," and second element in Reykjavik). But Old English wicing and Old Frisian wizing are almost 300 years older than the earliest attestation of the Old Norse word, and probably derive from wic "village, camp" (large temporary camps were a feature of the Viking raids), related to Latin vicus "village, habitation" (see villa). 

The connection between the Norse and Old English words is still much debated. The period of Viking activity was roughly 8c. to 11c. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the raiding armies generally were referred to as þa Deniscan "the Danes," while those who settled in England were identified by their place of settlement. Old Norse viking (n.) meant "freebooting voyage, piracy;" one would "go on a viking" (fara í viking).

[malonish]

I doubt a Scandinavian would be upset if you called him a Viking these days

To ECM, TL;DR. Please quote where they named themselves redskin if it's in there. I'd like to know I just don't have time.