I also believe that people often have a lot of love for their favorite teams. With changing the mascots comes a lot of difficulty and money because you would have to change and take out all your merchandise, you'd have to change all sports wear for teammates, change the stadium, and a lot of other things this would cost money for the team, state, town, country, and could even potentially raise taxes. Also changing a mascot would be bad because you would have to now make and think of new team colors, name, etc.

I think that people shouldn't change the mascots because some mascots around the state may resemble an area or a town that the school is in. For example according to hogtownmascots.com, people will know your mascot if it is native to the area, and it may make people proud of their mascot. Because according to,

I believe that mascots are fine and should stay. There are various amounts of people who believe the same things. From a view of other people, they should mind their own mascot. "Life in our schools and communities would go so much more smoothly if we all followed one golden rule: never mess with another man's mascot. -Devin Gordon, who wrote Mind Your Own Mascot". Also, people spend time thinking what they'd want their mascot to be because they want it to be special to them. Going along with this, it is respectful for whatever kind of mascot they have, and it wouldn't be racists because it isn't about disrespect or race. It is a good thing and gives them pride and they feel happy about who they are. In addition, school mascots should stay because instead of making comments, you can write a letter to have them fix it, if it's making you feel that wrong about mascots. Overall, I feel that mascots should stay because it's a part of their school culture.

Another reason for schools to not have to change their mascot is, it provides school spirit and something to be proud off and cheer for. Student Cassidy Trindade (16) says she doesn't support the AB 30 change (A change to possibly offensive mascots at school) shes says

"These names have been the school’s mascot for so long, it’s going to be a huge argument and people won’t like it and the school spirit will suffer. It’s hard to know whether the school and students are admiring what their mascot is based on. I don’t think they’re making fun of Native Americans.

I personally don’t think anything of the name “Redskins” because I can see it as just a school mascot name. Again, I don’t think the schools and students are trying to be rude and mean."

America is the land of the free and we also have the freedom of speech. We should be able to name any team with any name we want. Otherwise, that goes against what we are as a country. According to the Scholastic News Story "Honor or Insult", naming our team after Native American's is honor and not an insult.

I think mascots should stay the say because a national poll had stated that the term "Redskin" still has a wide support throughout the country showing that nearly 4 out of 5 Americans don't think the name should have to change while only 11% said that the names should change.

Also with changing mascots sometimes it takes the fun out of it. Think about going to a school for almost 4 years and them then changing it. A mascots role at sporting events is to get the crowd in the spirit of the game. Most people think that a person just puts on a suit and jumps around and acts silly. They can get the sports fans into the spirit of the game.

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I think that team mascots should stay the same because most mascots have a meaning and a lot of history behind them, if they got rid of them it could ruin what the mascot means to them and it would cost a lot of money to build a new part of a building, paint the new mascot in places. It would also take a lot of time to create the new mascot and have it approved by the school board. It is a lot of work and money to change the mascot, there is too much to do, so why not keep it the way it is. There is too many negatives to change it.

Some argue that mascots can be offensive to people, but I say that today, people are easily offended by anything. We should keep mascots as they are and uphold the tradition that they represent.

I believe that school mascots should stay the same for many reasons. One reason is that it is from their background, it shouldn't be offensive because it was from their background. Another reason is that kids even want it to stay the same. Of 452 students at Mascouten school, 90% of the kids wanted the mascots to stay the same. "The Mascouten Indian tribe is what the Berlin Indians were named after and they no longer exist. So I believe it's a good memory that honors them. That's just my belief and that's the belief of, obviously, more than 90% of the people who live here," said Troy Westphal, who is on the school board of Mascouten school. Also, everything is just getting out of hand and violent. In a meeting, talking about changing the mascot or not, it was loud and noisy, but after the meeting, a women found a nail in the tire of her car. She said that she expected this because of how the people were reacting over this topic. Another person voted to keep the Indians the same, and he got his car keyed (when someone scratches a car with a key). It got so bad that the feds had to come and sort this out

We need to keep mascots the same because they are very important and Mascots hold history and meaning to towns and schools. One of the biggest well-known controversies is the Washington Redskins. There are a lot of different opinions on why the Redskins may be an inappropriate name. But team owners strongly dispute any racism behind the mascot and won't change it, saying the Redskins name honors "where we came from, who we are." This shows that the redskins hold importance to the area and meaning to a lot of people. Washington team owner Dan Snyder stepped up his defense of the moniker this month. Last spring, he told USA Today he will "never" change the name.

"Our fans sing 'Hail to the Redskins' in celebration at every Redskins game. They speak proudly of 'Redskins Nation' in honor of a sports team they love," Snyder wrote in a letter to fans. "After 81 years, the team name 'Redskins' continues to hold the memories and meaning of where we came from, who we are, and who we want to be in the years to come," he continued. "I respect the feelings of those who are offended by the team name. But, I hope such individuals also try to respect what the name means, not only for all of us in the extended Washington Redskins family, but among Native Americans too," Snyder said, citing several polls conducted in recent years that show that a majority of people do not want the name changed.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/12/us/redskins-controversy/