I'll bet that if they rename it to "Esks", the howling will be just as loud if you went back to "Eskimos". The screamers will say it's just an abbreviated version of the former horrible name, and therefor, just an end around to wind up at the same place.
This is the sad truth.
This brand of people doesn’t understand what the word compromise means. They perceive their opinion as black and white “right.” They envision themselves as civil rights warriors of the 60’s (an actual valid, material cause), so anything short of strict compliance to their view is, in their tiny mind, “wrong.”
It’s an incredibly poisonous mindset, at they will howl if “Esks” is the solution no matter how much obvious sense it makes.
Esks alone is a horrible name. I know the history and it works great as a nickname, but having the full official name as the Edmonton Esks is not good. How do you market that? What does it even mean?
Either change it back to Eskimos, or leave it as Elks.
PS, can we please return to yellow numbers. So tired of the Packers look.
Well they can’t possibly market “Elks” much worse. “Think of all the stuff they can do with the Antlers!”
Esks is considerably more marketable because it actually has some connection with football in this city, rather than the lazy moron default of the only non-offensive word they could possibly think of that starts with an “E.”
