SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Anti-bullying advocates are beating up on the name chosen for the new professional basketball team in Syracuse, N.Y. The Syracuse Bullies will play in the American Basketball Association beginning this fall.
People who run anti-bullying programs are crying foul over the Bullies name. They say when children attend the games, they’ll get the wrong idea that bullies are cool.
A Rochester businessman, Nicholas Fritts, tells Syracuse TV station WSYR that the team’s name doesn’t promote bullying and shouldn’t raise concerns. The team’s mascot is a muscle-bound bull.
But the director of one Syracuse group, Jenna’s Foundation for Non-Violence, says the team name goes against everything anti-bullying educators are trying to get across to kids.
Why even have skin if it’s going to be this damned thin? Honestly, do these groups think bullies care about what they have to say?
Most children who attend games don’t give two shits what the name is, otherwise every kid in Minnesota would be running up to a hill and baying at the moon, and every kid in LA would be a barber.
via Yahoo News
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