Missouri town calls on KU to drop Jayhawks mascot

[luv]

I thought this was an interesting read....

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/18...ylink=misearch

OSCEOLA, Mo. | City officials in Osceola, a southwest Missouri town of about 950 people, are asking the University of Kansas to drop its "Jayhawk" mascot because the name refers to a group of domestic terrorists that nearly destroyed the city 150 years ago.

In a resolution approved earlier this week, the Osceola Board of Alderman also asks the University of Missouri to educate Kansas on the history of the "Border War" and let people know there was more to it than William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kan., in 1863.

Resentment still runs deep for residents of Osceola over the Sept. 22-23, 1861, siege by U.S. Sen. Jim Lane and a band of about 2,000 "Jayhawkers" that left a dozen men executed on the town square and the community itself a smoking ruin

"I grew up here, and it is all I heard about when I was attending grade school and high school," Mayor Larry Hutsler told the Columbia Daily Tribune. "Everyone knew who was responsible."

In the resolution, the city condemns "the celebration of this murderous gang of terrorists by an institution of 'higher education' in such a brazen and malicious manner."

Osceola had a population of about 2,500 before the 1861 attack, but fewer than 200 remained afterward. The city has never had as many residents as it did before the raid.

The attack was only one of several deadly episodes in the "Border War" over slavery between the two states. Lane was a radical abolitionist who formed his own militia at the outbreak of the Civil War and used it to punish Missourians.

When Quantrill's band attacked Lawrence — Lane's hometown — two years after the Jayhawkers' raid in Missouri, many of the guerrillas shouted "Remember Osceola" as they were killing about 200 of the city's men and burning down a quarter of the town.

The Osceola resolution asks Missourians to stop spelling Kansas or KU with a capital letter, since "neither is a proper name or a proper place." In the resolution, both words are lowercase throughout.

Rick Reed of Osceola, who brought the resolution to the aldermen, doesn't think the measure will persuade the University of Kansas to dump the Jayhawk.

"I don't expect them to do anything," he said. "They are so arrogant and uppity."

A Kansas spokeswoman downplayed the Civil War origin of the school's mascot.

"A Jayhawk is a blue bird with a red head and a big yellow beak that wears boots," spokeswoman Jill Jess said in an email to the Daily Tribune. "It would be hard to confuse it with anyone with terrorist intent, though we admit we have been terrorizing the Tigers on the basketball court for some time. Tigers have been known to kill people. Bears, too."

Missouri's Tigers mascot also has Civil War roots, named for the Unionist militia set up to protect Columbia from guerrilla raids, the newspaper reported.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Yeah. I'm not going out of my way to defend Osceola.

Sedalia, on the other hand? You can pry my cold, dead corpse away from the burned-out shell of the Thompson Hills shopping center.

Sedalia - it's a nice place to stop and piss if you're driving between Lee's Summit and Jeff City.

[Fish]

150 years of butthurt.... wow....

The Osceola resolution asks Missourians to stop spelling Kansas or KU with a capital letter, since "neither is a proper name or a proper place." In the resolution, both words are lowercase throughout.

"I don't expect them to do anything," he said. "They are so arrogant and uppity."

[gblowfish]

Remember, we have all the B-2 bombers here at Whiteman. Watch your ass...

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by frazod

Sedalia - it's a nice place to stop and piss if you're driving between Lee's Summit and Jeff City.

Yeah, pretty much. Must be why my folks think I don't get home enough or something...

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

150 years of butthurt.... wow....

I'm not sure how many of the residents now are actually descended from residents at the time (it can't be many - there were only 200 Osceolans still in the town after Lane burned almost all the buildings and took every item of value away).

I understand "not forgetting" if you're related to folks who lived through it. Otherwise? Just an amusing little side note.

I guess a positive that could come from it is that maybe it helps educate people about the actual Border War a little bit better? Maybe some of the actual hatred would boil over if we'd all admit that both sides of the state line were home to roving bands of murdering, thieving thugs...

That would free us to get back to sports-driven hatred. Which is what it's really all about.

[GloryDayz]

Just LOL!!! Maybe some tribes should ask the Chiefs to give up their name too. It makes more sense...

[luv]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Just LOL!!! Maybe some tribes should ask the Chiefs to give up their name too. It makes more sense...

The Chiefs weren't named after Indians, though. Then again, I guess Jayhawks weren't named after a band of murderers, either.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by luv

The Chiefs weren't named after Indians, though. Then again, I guess Jayhawks weren't named after a band of murderers, either.

They're not??? Well they don't dress up like Navy Chiefs (or where's the khaki??). And from everything I've seen, it's all about Indian and tribe...

What's the "Arrow" part of Arrowhead all about???

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by frazod

Sedalia - it's the only place to stop and piss if you're driving between Lee's Summit and Jeff City.

FYP...
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[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

FYP...
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Don't sell the lovely town of Lamonte short...

[gblowfish]

Yeah! What about Knob Noster, or Warrensburg, or Lone Jack??? Huh?
And in Centerview, you can rent a bus full of naked chicks that will give you beers and rub up against you!
I'm not kidding!
http://www.yourfantasyranch.com/home/home.htm

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

"A Jayhawk is a blue bird with a red head and a big yellow beak that wears boots," spokeswoman Jill Jess said in an email to the Daily Tribune. "It would be hard to confuse it with anyone with terrorist intent, though we admit we have been terrorizing the Tigers on the basketball court for some time. Tigers have been known to kill people. Bears, too."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[luv]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

They're not??? Well they don't dress up like Navy Chiefs (or where's the khaki??). And from everything I've seen, it's all about Indian and tribe...

What's the "Arrow" part of Arrowhead all about???

Actually, I guess they were, in a roundabout way...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...as_City_Chiefs

After three seasons in Dallas, Texas, it was apparent that Dallas couldn’t support two teams. Hunt investigated opportunities to move his team to several cities for the 1963 season, including Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Seattle, Washington and New Orleans, Louisiana. Hunt wanted to find a city to which he could commute easily from Dallas, and when he was unable to secure Tulane Stadium because the university didn’t want its football program to compete with a pro team, he turned to Kansas City, Missouri, where Mayor H. Roe Bartle persuaded him to move to the Midwest.

The negotiations in Kansas City were conducted in secrecy. On several occasions Hunt and Jack Steadman were in Kansas City and met with businessmen, without the general public's knowledge. Bartle introduced Hunt as "Mr. Lamar" in all the meetings with other Kansas City businessmen. Steadman was introduced as "Jack X."

The support the team received from the Kansas City community before the team announced the move was extraordinary. Hunt made the move dependent upon the ability of Mayor Bartle and the Kansas City community to guarantee him 35,000 in season ticket sales. Hunt had set this number, being that it was the Texans' average attendance at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. An ambitious campaign took shape to deliver on Bartle’s guarantee to Hunt of tripling the season-ticket base the Texans had enjoyed in Dallas. Kansas City’s mayor also promised to add 3,000 permanent seats to Municipal Stadium, as well as 11,000 temporary bleacher seats. Along with Bartle, a number of other prominent Kansas Citians stepped forward to aid in the efforts, putting together more than 1,000 workers to sell season tickets.

Bartle called to his office 20 business leaders and called upon them to form an association later known as "The Gold Coats", whose sole objective was to sell and take down payments on the 35,000 season tickets required. "The Gold Coats" had to sell season tickets to people without knowing the team name, where it was coming from, who the owner was, which football league they would play in, who the players or coaches were, when the team would play its first game in Kansas City, or where it would play. Hunt gave Bartle a four-month deadline to accomplish the sales. Bartle and "The Gold Coats" made good in only 8 weeks. Later, Hunt admitted he was really only hoping for 20,000, for which he still would have moved the franchise. On May 22, Hunt announced he was moving the franchise to Kansas City, Missouri.

Hunt, with a roster replete with players who had played college football in Texas, wanted to maintain a lineage to the team’s roots and wanted to name the club the Kansas City Texans. "The Lakers stayed the Lakers when they moved from Minnesota to California," he reasoned. "But Jack Steadman convinced me that wasn’t too smart. It wouldn’t sell." The team was renamed the Kansas City Chiefs—one of the most popular suggestions Hunt received in a name-the-team contest. A name also considered at the time for the team was the Kansas City Mules.

The name, "Chiefs" is not only derived from a fan contest, but also from Mayor Bartle, who 35 years prior, founded the Native American-based honor society known as The Tribe of Mic-O-Say within the Boy Scouts of America organization, which earned him the nickname, "The Chief."

[RNR]

They can eat shit~

[Mr. Laz]

**** Osceola and every stupid asshole that lives there.