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Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 10:43 AM
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" Tar Heels " since it has some ties to the Civil War and slavery? Let's help our fellow ACC member come up with a new nickname.
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 10:47 AM
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I've always been partial to Tar Holes.
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UNC Academics. Because LOL. ***
Jun 17, 2020, 11:36 PM
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No because I'm not a liberal hack.
Jun 17, 2020, 10:47 AM
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But yes because I hate UNCheat.
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 10:51 AM
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IDK, just let the methed up NC State boosters pick it.
Go to #3!! Carolina, go to #3!!
Then again, what do you call a placed that had about 18 years of complete academic fraud in order to boost the athletic program?
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North Carolina Cigarettes
Jun 17, 2020, 10:56 AM
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Still recognizes their history, but no slave reference. Logo is easy, LOL.
While we are at it, South Carolina can change their to Sandlappers, with a flip flop logo.
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Re: North Carolina Cigarettes
Jun 17, 2020, 11:02 AM
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Lol, Virginia would likely sue NC for that nickname. Plus, both the Deacs andf Devs are more closely aligned with cancer sticks.
How about the UNC Vapes? Vapors? Kinda like their academic programs and their athletic prowess. Also sums of their morals and mental fortitude.
As for the Sandlappers, that might work for Coastal (since they get their name from the coots), but in the midlands? How about we call the coots "coots". Illiterates?
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OK, oreos...nah, that won't work, either
Jun 17, 2020, 11:12 AM
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Doughnuts? Pepsi colas?
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Re: OK, oreos...nah, that won't work, either
Jun 17, 2020, 11:21 AM
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haha!
Well Krispy Kreme was from Winston-Salem, so that would make Wake the Demon Donuts
Chapel Hill would never associate with someone from the "lowly" New Bern area. However, their academic standard would be on par!
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Rich white plantation owners were the ones who would
Jun 17, 2020, 11:26 AM
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go out into the tobacco fields and pick the leaves, put them on wooden stakes and hang the leaves upside down in a barn to dry. They found it rewarding to do all of the work themselves.
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So now we are playing "six degrees of slavery"?
Jun 17, 2020, 11:58 AM
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Cigarette--->Tobacco--->Slavery
You could tie anything to slavery that way: SpaceX--->Elon Musk--->Elon College--->North Carolina--->slave state
Tarheel is a direct, derogatory reference
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Re: Uh, who was picking the tobacco????????***
Jun 17, 2020, 11:58 AM
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I was. And it is called cropping not picking. Worked in the fields for years. Then worked as a buyer for a company in NC. Picking tobacco is reserved for the burley tobacco in Virginia, Tenn and Kentucky.
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TL;DR***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:49 PM
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 10:58 AM
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Well of course they should. I don't like it and that's all it takes these days.
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 11:10 AM
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I am proud of the name Tar Heels. My ancestors stuck in battle like the “tar on their heels”. At least that’s what General Jackson said. Don’t touch the name commies!!
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Yeah. Unc unicorns sounds good
Jun 17, 2020, 11:12 AM
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They love baby blue and pink
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Re: Yeah. Unc unicorns sounds good
Jun 17, 2020, 11:24 AM
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You know, remove one horn and we got it. Anyone have some scissors. (UNC students dont have scisssors due to it being a trigger)
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 11:25 AM
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Woke Warriors ???
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The term "tar heels" MIGHT have to do with The War Between
Jun 17, 2020, 11:29 AM
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the States' NC soldiers (or might simply refer to the early sailing tradition of the state), but certainly didn't have anything to do with slavery.
North Carolina didn't wish to secede and didn't secede until Abraham Lincoln declared war on the South by raising an army to invade it (because the South paid most of the federal budget at the time through tariffs).
As a result, the men of The Old North State rose up (as they had done many times before) and fought valiantly to repel the invaders, losing a higher percentage of men than other state (except maybe South Carolina whose records are not complete).
That is, the term "Tar Heels" might simply refer to the fact that North Carolina's men were exceptionally brave in combat, which should be something any red-blooded American man should aspire to.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/no-man-can-take-those-colors-and-live“No Man Can Take Those Colors and Live” A history article looking at the epic fight between the 24th Michigan and the 26th North Carolina in the Herbst Woods on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Re: The term "tar heels" MIGHT have to do with The War Between
Jun 17, 2020, 12:03 PM
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The story is that Tar Heels was a name of ridicule because many of the boys literally showed up for battle with no shoes and had pine tar on their heels from the eastern NC forests. General Jackson said honored the name Tar Heels after a particularly bloody battle claiming they stick in the fight like the tar on their heels. It then became a proud name. I’m a Tar Heel by birth , “raisin”, and degree. I’m proud to be called Tar Heel and it has nothing to do with athletics.
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Degree? So you took some fake classes and they
Jun 17, 2020, 12:12 PM
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gave you a degree in return? Congrats.
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Re: Degree? So you took some fake classes and they
Jun 17, 2020, 12:32 PM
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Whatever you say.
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Not as easy as you would think
Jun 17, 2020, 2:44 PM
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no classroom, no book, no teacher
Unless you located a bunch of guys 6'1"- 6"11" and followed them around you could miss it
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Re: The term "tar heels" MIGHT have to do with The War Between
Jun 17, 2020, 1:37 PM
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The alternative story I heard put forth was the fighters from NC were so quick to retreat that they had to put tar on their heels to keep them from running from the fight.
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 12:09 PM
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From Billy goats to what???
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Pale Blue Hos.
Jun 17, 2020, 12:44 PM
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 12:50 PM
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I'm surprised there hasn't already been an outcry.
If I recall correctly, from way back in my elementary school days (early 60s for those of you interested) I learned that NC got the nickname because a group of outnumbered and outgunned Confederate soldiers were hanging tough in a multi-day battle. One general described them as "standing their ground like they had tar on their heels."
At least that how I recall a story I heard almost 60 years ago.
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 2:37 PM
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That’s pretty close sir. Some seem to think the “tar” had something to do with the African slaves. Not even remotely true.
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Teflon Cheetahs***
Jun 17, 2020, 1:05 PM
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High Heels?***
Jun 17, 2020, 1:05 PM
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UNC Academians
Jun 17, 2020, 2:41 PM
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Then let the wuffies have at it
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 2:53 PM
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UNC Cheetahs
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 17, 2020, 11:03 PM
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I typically refer to them as the "stupid little goats or sheep or whatever they are."
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Re: Food for thought... Should UNC change their nickname
Jun 18, 2020, 1:22 PM
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I’m fairly sure the nickname came from the British during Revolutionary War. Colonial militia were said to have “ fought as if they had tar on the feet”. U know. Held their ground
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