A Bad Lip Reading of The NFL

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NFL team names in Latin

• From Taylor Marshal, a PhD candidate at U of Dallas.
• Green Bay Arctatores
• Chicago Ursi
• New York Gigantes
• Pittsburgh Ferrarii (Ferrarii sounds much more blue blood than “steel-worker” doesn’t it?)
• Washington Rubracutes (Saying it in Latin makes it sound more politically correct)
• Indianapolis Equulei
• San Francisco Undequinquagintatori (This is my personal favorite NFL Latin name – literally “one from 50ers”)
• Dallas Bovipueri (My favorite team! – also a great Latin name)
• Cleveland Bruni (Even in Latin, it’s still the most boring name in football history)
• Detroit Leones
• Oakland Raptores
• New England Patriotici
• Philadelphia Aquilae
• St. Louis Arietes
• Kansas City Principes
• Miami Delphini
• Arizona Cardinales
• Denver Sonipedes
• Tennessee Titani
• Buffalo Gulieli (plural abbreviation of the Latin name “William”)
• Minnesota Vikentes (yeah, we just punted on this one…)
• New York Aeroplana (this term turns out to be neuter plural of airplane in “contemporary Latin”)
• Baltimore Corvi
• Tampa Bay Archipiratae (it rhymes!)
• San Diego Fulgurifactores (I’m not satisfied with this as “Chargers,” but I wanted to keep the “electric” meaning)
• Houston Texani (we punted on this one, too)
• Cincinnati Bengalenses (I’m quite proud of this one)
• Jacksonville Pantherae (yes, the scientific name for a jaguar is “panthera onca”)
• Carolina Pantherae (unfortunately redundant)
• New Orleans Sancti
• Seattle Pandiones
• Atlanta Falcones

If you wish to reproduce this list, please give credit and a link. I’m especially grateful to my students Dominic Sipe, Jacob Pearson, Max Biko, Daniel “Harundo” Reed, and Joseph Davis for their creative help in generating this list.

http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2010/01/nfl-football-teams-in-latin.html

Post Dispatch weaseling out of the controversy

Well, it looks like the Post Dispatch is trying to weasel out of the controversy that they started.  The whole thing started with a editorial by Bryan Burwell  posting the most ridiculous lies about Rush that I have heard of in a long time.  He got it from a book that had no source other than the author saying he had a source he can not tell about.  What Bullshit.    If this is a way of  the Post to try and say they are sorry for sstarting this crap, it will not work.

A quote in Bryan Burwell’s column Oct. 7 attributed to Rush Limbaugh about the merits of slavery in the United States cannot be verified, and its use did not meet the Post-Dispatch’s standards for sourcing.

Limbaugh said he did not make the statement.

Burwell’s column did not identify the source of the quote, which was Jack Huberman’s 2006 book “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America.” The book provided no details about the origin of the quote. When contacted by the Post-Dispatch, Huberman said that he had a source for the quote but declined to reveal it on advice of counsel. The book’s publisher, Nation Books, did not return calls to the Post-Dispatch.

The Post-Dispatch found references attributing the quote to Limbaugh in other publications and on Internet blogs as far back as 1993, but none of those cited a source.

So quoting from a source that has no way of verifying what was said is journalism  now.  This is beyond ridiculous.  No wonder the Post and all the so-called MSM are loosing readership.

Even Juan Williams is getting demonized now

This is getting out of hand.  Anyone that does not agree with the Obama administration are getting vilified.  Juan Williams, who is not anywhere close to being a conservative, is now getting it from the race baiters on the Left for the audacity for defending Rush against false and defaming accusations from those that wanted Rush out of the NFL.   And it is interesting now after the fact, all the facts about how many of these people that were most vocal are connected to the Obama administration.  And the Left was talking about how fascist Bush was,  do they even know what fascism is??????????  And it is amazing that at the same time the Players Union is trying to renegotiate their contract.

H/T to KISP