Search



Comments

« Ghost Professor • Home • Sollog »

Satan's football team

• Cheap Laughs

Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram writes about the fight over a Oklahoma football team's mascot.

Ending 12 years of ungodly bickering, school trustees voted 4-1 on Sept. 2 not to change Dibble's 53-year-old mascot. Some parents had called the school's cartoon devil emblem an insult to Christianity.

In an ironic twist on the current Alabama rampage, some critics also called the Dibble Demon unconstitutional.

If a judge can't legally promote the Ten Commandments, they said, then a school district should not be allowed to promote a goofy blue devil.

Never mind that there is no evidence whatsoever of anyone renouncing his or her faith to worship the Dibble Demons -- at least, no more than folks in any little Oklahoma town normally worship a Class B 8-man high school football team. ...

Yet some critics even blame Dibble's achievement test scores on the Demon, counselor Linda McKinney said.

"We are absolutely not worshipping the devil up here at the high school," she said, laughing.

"I don't think we are practicing satanism or that we in any way require an exorcism," she said. "But there are folks here in town who believe we do."

Devil is in the debate in small town

Richard Evans Lee
September 10, 2003 •
BlinkList • del.icio.us • Digg it • Furl • ma.gnolia
RawSugar • Shadows • Simpy • Spurl • Yahoo MyWeb
Top↑

Comments

To whom it may concern iam a Grad of dibble and 12 years ago the same thing also happend and to the end it was never change you dont hear about ringling causing a big fit over changing the bluedevils or even another town south of rushsprings who also name is demons so the people in that town need to get a grip and face reality because there sons or there daughters did or are even going to school there now and if they try to change the name all the students will just laugh at them and wake up the next day and demons will always be dibble.

Posted by: osudiehard | December 15, 2003 1:36 AM

Since when does a mascot define who you are!! I personally am a graduate of Rush Springs. Our mascot is the redskin but that doesn't mean everyone in our small community is running around with red skin. Or how about the Marlow Outlaws now I'm sure there are a couple of outlaws in Marlow but not the whole place. I think that it's their choice what their mascot is. None of the students or teachers seem to have a problem with it and just because a Demon is your mascot doesn't mean your satanic. As I said unless it's summertime and the temperatures up you don't see red skinned people running around here. So why don't we try to take care of some of the other problems in the world rather than worring about some stupid mascot.

Posted by: okiegrl03 | November 12, 2004 2:45 PM

How do you feel?

Feel free to share your feelings about Satan's football team. Please stick to the theme of the entry. Disagreement is fine. Homophobia, racism, and kindred expressions of hatred will be deleted. This site is one of my hobbies. I genuinely enjoy hearing from people and hate moderating or killing comments. Forthright disagreement is fine as long as it is civil.
My thanks,
Richard

Monthly Summaries

March 2007, February 2007, January 2007, December 2006, November 2006, October 2006, August 2006, July 2006, June 2006, May 2006, April 2006, March 2006, February 2006, January 2006, December 2005, November 2005, October 2005, September 2005, August 2005, July 2005, June 2005, May 2005, April 2005, March 2005, February 2005, December 2004, November 2004, October 2004, September 2004, August 2004, July 2004, June 2004, May 2004, April 2004, March 2004, February 2004, January 2004, December 2003, November 2003, October 2003, September 2003, August 2003, July 2003, June 2003, May 2003, April 2003, March 2003, February 2003, January 2003, December 2002, November 2002, October 2002, September 2002, August 2002, May 2002, April 2002, March 2002,

Recent Posts



Thematic Archives

Powered by
Movable Type 4.0

Syndication


Edifying Spectacle
Index
Cheap Laughs
Satan's football team
Top of page