Urban Poverty Law Center

I have been giving very little thought of late about the controversy which has taken the nation's media nincompoops by storm. American football teams have always striven for mascots which project a certain amount of power. This falls even to the most beginner leagues. Not too many mascots are chosen which project weakness. I wanted to call my 5th grade basketball team the "turtles", but my father who was the coach forbid it and we became the Main Street Elementary Panty Liners. The play by play on the radio went something like this: Maybolt, has the ball at the point for the Panty Liners. He passes the ball off to Johnson, the big 5 foot inch Panty Liner, who plays center, fakes left and drives to the basket, he shoots, and scores! Main Street Elementary Panty Liners take the lead from the East End Elementary Scaredy Cats. Now the manufactured outrage over the Washington Redskins choice of mascots is ridiculous. It is just a football team. How does one know ...