New team names spell victory! (fwd)

[Lynne Murphy]

Today's satire on Salon has to do with changing the names of football
teams.   Follow the link to read the whole thing.

Lynne
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New team names spell victory!
By Susan McCarthy

http://www.salon.com/people/satire/2001/04/04/team_names/index.html

HONOLULU -- A Honolulu State College official denied today that the school
had nixed the football team's request to change its name from the Fighting
Tigers to the Raging Drag Queens.<p>

"It's true a vote was held, and it's true the students overwhelmingly
favored Raging Drag Queens," said the official, who asked to be unnamed.
"But the name was not submitted through proper nomination channels, so it
doesn't count as a request, and neither do most of those others. Properly
nominated choices included Tiger Team, Fighting Tigers, Tiger Gladiators,
Just Plain Tigers, Savage Geckoes, Tiger Tsunami, and More Than One Angry
Mongoose, and of those, Fighting Tigers got the most votes." <p>

Fighting Tigers received only four votes, the official conceded. He
declined to give totals for Raging Drag Queens or other disallowed names.<p>

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