One night in March.....

[thekimmer]

I enjoyed watching the account of our historic 1963 NCAA tournament game vs Loyola. After watching the show I was surfing the net on the topic just to get more information, etc. I ran across Leland Mitchell's obit in the New York Times from a few years ago. Here is a direct quote from the story.

"In the game, all-white Mississippi State took on a Loyola team with four black starters. The Mississippi team was named the Maroons, an old Southern term for runaway slaves, which eventually gave way to Bulldog."

Can you believe that crap? Where on God's green earth did they get the idea that this is where the nickname 'Maroons' came from. This might be germans to many but just really ticked me off that they did that.

 

[Dawgtini]

missed that part, but too watched it. I had never seen it previously. Really enjoyed it.

 

[thekimmer]

Point is the informal nickname 'maroons' we once used had absolutely nothing to do with what runaway slaves were called. The NYT in the article, some four years old, made that story up I can only suppose to feed the racial stereotyping for the story.