MessierII
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Changing the name back would be such a well timed reset for the team.
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guymez
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100%
It will make the team whole again.
I think it will create a badly needed resurgence of interest and support for this broken team.
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I still go to elks games so it wasn’t a game changer for me but always felt a bit sad saying go elks and hearing the changed fight song. I would love it if they went back to the Eskimos.
guymez
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So far after 4430 votes....
Eskimos - 53.8%
Elks - 21.8%
Esks - 16%
Something else - 8.4%
So at this early stage 54% are voting for Eskimos and 78% of the fans are voting for anything other than Elks.
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PositiveCashFlow
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Eskimos. No Esks or Eakins or Elks or whatever
EDIT: HAHA I meant "Eskies" not "Eakins" phone must have autocorrected
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If they change the name again, poor messiah is gonna have to go down and drop another 1k at the store.
brentashton
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He will be the new owner's favourite fan.
Holden Caulfield
He's guilty
Collaros in WPG makes 600k. That much can fit into the cap. Rourke is only gonna make 250k this year though. They won't be able to afford both VA and Rourke next year. The BS part I don't understand is next year he makes 550k on the cap and 200k that's cap exempt in marketing money. What the f*** is that?
Still think the best name for Edmonton is "Empire" and really lean into the Star Wars evil empire theme. Have the team come out of the tunnel to the Darth Vader theme, play up dark side idea, etc. It would be pretty epic, IMO. I grew up thinking of and hating the Eskimos as the "Evil Empire".
PositiveCashFlow
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Fine, if Larry Thompson want to change the name to "Evil Empire" I'll allow it.
Then again it's his team now, he can do whatever he wants with it
Then again it's his team now, he can do whatever he wants with it
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You would have had the entire BoD confronting you about your lack of social awokeness, er I mean awareness.
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I voted other.
I think as a nod to tradition we need a second team called, oh I don’t know, Ruff Riders? You can keep the Superdogs half time show.
bone
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While I don't agree completely, I sort of understand.
It's one thing to keep a name that's based in history that wasn't selected at a time when it was considered offensive.
It's a completely different thing to rename your team to a name that is considered offensive at the time you are renaming it.
That said, I'm fascinated to see what the results of such an action would be.
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In general I agree with you on this, the issue for me in this case is based on the various polls, etc we’ve seen, the name is offensive to some, while others wear it as a badge of honor. Not sure it didn’t just get caught in the whole politicalizing of team names at the time.
bone
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Tough to say, but the team isn't the only group to remove the word Eskimo from their name. A local steel fabrication company also did prior to the team name change. There's also a musical act from Europe that used to be called Eskimo Callboy that changed it's name to Electric Callboy so globally there's at least some recognition that the name is problematic to enough people to matter.
I'm firmly in the camp of "don't care what the name ends up being unless it a completely new variant never used before". I also hope that regardless of the path chosen we as group of sports fans just move on.
To me the bigger thing is seeing if this owner really understands the underlying issues and isn't just obsessed with the thought that the name fixes everything. The rot in this organization has run deep for decades and everything needs to be looked at and overhauled.
PBandJ
If it didn't happen in the 80's, it didn't happen
If this new owner seriously thinks the f***ing name is the biggest issue, this team is screwed.
guymez
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The name change is a off field problem and is clearly seperate from the mismanagement of the on field product.
I cant see how the owner thinks otherwise. He isnt a dummy.
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I doubt he think it’s the “biggest issue.” It’s his team so he can name it whatever he wants.
PBandJ
If it didn't happen in the 80's, it didn't happen
Looking forward to the shocked Pikachu face when changing the name doesn't magically make the team better.
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Lol I don’t think anyone thinks it will magically make the team better.
bone
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By virtue of the team being so bad for so long, there's a reasonable chance they've already improved.
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It would be funny if the team happened to turn it around right around the name change.
