2008 Point & Laugh at the skins thread

[Seabiscuit36]

my cousins boyfriend is a Skins fan.  He's the terrible douchey kind too.  He wears a #21 gold necklace in honor of Taylor, has Skins magnets all over his car.  He's a nice guy but a complete retard when it comes to the skins.  He knows nothing of other NFL teams, just his blind love to the Racists. 

I made a joke the first time i met him that Sean Taylor could stop anything on the field, but he couldnt stop bullets at home.  My cousin just told me last night that he almost cries when he talks about me joking around.  It hurts him...lol

[SunMo]

then you need to never stop until he snaps and tries to kill you

[ice grillin you]

lol @ at da mayor plowing sb's baby cousin

[Seabiscuit36]

one can only hope.  And i know the day i get murdered will be about an hour after the Eagles confirm that i have season tickets

[General_Failure]

Invite him over for a cookout. Grab a squeezebottle of ketchup and spray his pants with it.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Invite him over for a cookout. Grab a squeezebottle of ketchup and spray his pants with it.

Hell, spray your own pants.  Get some cheap yellow cloths and stuff them all over.  Tell him you're Sean Taylor on and off the field!  Extra credit if you get a machete.

[Sgt PSN]

This thread's getting funny again. 

[phattymatty]

wrong

[SD_Eagle5]

link

Judge says American Indians waited too long to sue taterskins
Associated Press

Updated: July 11, 2008, 5:58 PM ET


WASHINGTON -- The Washington taterskins have won the latest round in a 16-year court battle against a group of American Indians, prevailing on a technicality that again skirts the issue of whether the team's nickname is racially offensive.

In a ruling dated June 25 and first circulated Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the youngest of the seven Native American plaintiffs waited too long after turning 18 to file the lawsuit that attempts to revoke the taterskins trademarks.

The lead plaintiff, Suzan Shown Harjo, said Friday the group will appeal.

"She ruled as we anticipated she would: for the loophole that would allow everyone to avoid the merits of the case," said Harjo, president of the Washington-based Morning Star Institute that advances Native American causes.

Harjo and her fellow plaintiffs have been working since 1992 to have the taterskins trademarks declared invalid. They initially won -- the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office panel canceled the trademarks in 1999 -- but Kollar-Kotelly overturned the ruling in 2003 in part because the suit was filed decades after the first taterskins trademark was issued in 1967.

The U.S. Court of Appeals then sent the case back to Kollar-Kotelly, noting that the youngest of the plaintiffs was only 1 year old in 1967 and therefore could not have taken legal action at the time.

But Kollar-Kotelly's new ruling rejects that possible argument. She wrote that the youngest plaintiff turned 18 in 1984 and therefore "waited almost eight years" after coming of age to join the lawsuit.

The judge did not address whether the taterskins name is offensive or racist. She wrote that her decision was not based on the larger issue of "the appropriateness of Native American imagery for team names."
The taterskins declined to comment, referring calls to attorney Bob Raskopf, who has been representing the team and the NFL in the case. Raskopf did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The case now heads back to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Should it agree that Harjo's group was too old to sue, she has a backup plan: A group of six American Indians ranging in age from 18 to 24 filed essentially the same lawsuit two years ago. That suit is on hold until Harjo's case is resolved.

Harjo therefore anticipates that one day, a court will have to decide once and for all whether the taterskins name is offensive.

"It's so ironic that they would like to get rid of this though the loophole of passage of time, when we're in our 16th year of litigation," Harjo said. "Unbelievable. If this [lawsuit] were a child, we would be preparing the child to go to college."

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It's only a matter of time until they have to change their name.

I put the over under at about 6-7 years for it to get resolved by the justice system.  A wild card would be Danny Boy trying to curry some favor by offering to change it on his own.  It wouldn't appear that's happening anytime soon either, but if he thinks that legal enforcement of the change is inevitable, he will try to make a PR play to change it ahead of any legal mandate.

[MDS]

The logo is not offensive--the people involved are too sensitive

people need to just get over it

[QB Eagles]

They should call the team the Bullets.

[rjs246]

I think The Failures has a nice ring to it.

[General_Failure]

As long as they're paying me to use that name.

[rjs246]

I was thinking more along the lines of The Absolute Failures. The General Failures seems too non-specific.