Siouxphan27

He has a neck tattoo... Who would've thunk it?

North Dakota Nobody's... or, NDN's for short. Oops, maybe not.

The guy would've been killed by ISIS long before the legal circus got underway..

The entire process has been and will continue to be corrupted. Which is all the more reason to stay North Dakota- no nickname needed.

The NA's already have a nickname committee member that is able to, and has already single handedly rejected name ideas that may carry a NA connotation. I'm surprised Old McDonald hasn't denounced no name and cavalry yet.

As do I- we just have vastly different opinions.

No- "Roughriders" weren't North Dakota, at all. But some on here have a hard time digesting actual facts, and prefer their imagination land version of historical events. I've heard the phrase We Are North Dakota.... But strangely enough I've never heard anyone yell We Are Teddy Roosevelt.

I find your arguments and constant campaigning for Roughriders tiresome as well. However, this is a discussion board for opinions is it not? Roughriders may be a popular saying in the western part of the state, but not in the east. As to your question, yes, I did grow up in North Dakota. My ancestors like i'm sure many others that post here walked across Wisconsin and Minnesota 136 years ago with an ox and cart and just the clothes on their back, and homesteaded in North Dakota. If the nickname is intended to honor anyone, why not the actual settlers that came here and carved out a life here? But yet the lame brain committee has struck down all names like Homesteaders, Settlers, Pioneers, (yes I've heard of Denver), as well as all Scandinavian related names. So we are left with Roughriders, which honors Teddy Roosevelt and something he did in another phase of his life. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Our ancestors spent the 1870s barely surviving a trek into the unknown wild prairies of Dakota Territory. Teddy Roosevelt spent the 1870s as a child of wealthy New Yorkers, vacationing with his family in Europe and Egypt. He later came here on a hunting trip, loved it, and plunked $14000 down on a ranch. He hired cowboys, and a crew to build him one of the finest homes in the area, and then galloped his way back to New York to finish his term. I guess I don't see him as one of us. Great President, yes. But not a North Dakotan.

Nice article here about all the Roughriders born and raised in North Dakota. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/curt-eriksmoen/last-rough-rider-noted-for-inventions/article_94347e19-be6b-538f-a6d7-533a0ffd5f9e.html

I said he never owned land in North Dakota. So no, you are not at all discrediting the facts which I wrote. He invested in a ranch, yes. Which consisted of stock and buildings, etc. But not land. I think he was a great President, and have no problem with a Park being named after him. If people could have come up with a suitable nickname that had something to do with Teddy Roosevelt and his time spent in North Dakota, I would have been ok with that. http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Trail/TR-Trail-Pages/Theodore-Roosevelt-in-North-Dakota/TR-in-North-Dakota/Elkhorn-Ranch.aspx

He was not a North Dakota resident. He vacationed here and played cowboy from time to time. He never owned any land in North Dakota- he was a squatter. Darnit here I go again, letting facts get in the way of a great story.

Well aware of Roosevelt and his time here. That doesn't change the fact that only one member of the Roughriders was from North Dakota, which is what my post you replied to was pertaining to. Or should we continue along the path of revisionist history and just claim some, most, or all of the roughriders were North Dakotans? I'll head to Wikipedia right now and change a few things: Teddy Roosevelt and his roughriders- all of them from North Dakota- used nuclear weapons and pea shooters to defeat ISIS in the Battle of the Bulge. There, done. Gooooo Roughriders!!!!!

Blackhawks is the best choice remaining on the list in my opinion. Since Purpur actually did honorable things in this state, then yes, it would all make sense.

lol thanks. However, you will be very busy if you try correct all my grammatical mistakes!

Wrong. Langdon was the ONLY Roughrider from ND. I could not care less about any Class A high schools or their nicknames.

The difference would be those nicknames were not chosen with the directive of attempting to choose a name related to, and honoring, something in the state's past.

You're kidding, right? 7th Cavalry? Custer? Battle of Little Big Horn? Wounded Knee Massacre? There was also the 1st Dakota Cavalry Battalion- they were charged with keeping the settlers safe from Indian uprisings during the Civil War time period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Dakota_Cavalry_Battalion Because of what their duties were, I can't hardly believe when it comes down to the final countdown Cavalry will be considered as a nickname option. I prefer no nickname, but wouldn't mind Cavalry- it's a part of the history of North Dakota, unlike- you guessed it- Roughridas! The Roughriders were never here. They were from the southwestern states. They were from hot climate regions by design, as those men were used to the weather conditions they would encounter in Cuba. As a whole, they were together for just a few months from the beginning of training to the end of their fighting in Cuba. There was one member of the 1250+ Roughrider group who was from North Dakota. His name was Jesse Langdon. He was a 16 year old boy from Fargo who knew Teddy Roosevelt because Langdon's father was the Head Veterinarian at the North Dakota Ag College, and had worked Roosevelt's cattle. As a side note, a few years after he was with the Roughriders, Jesse claimed to have psychic powers. The link of North Dakota to the Roughriders is virtually non-existent, unless honoring a 16 year old boy from the NDAC is the plan for UND. Yes.....I realize there is a Roughrider award. I realize the ND Tourism Dept. has done a great job trying to sell North Dakota as the roughrider state. I've been to the Medora Musical- at the end of it, when they charge up San Juan Hill.... that hill's just southwest of Dickinson, right? I think it's nuts the state sells itself on a fictitious history that has been repeated so many times now that some people mistake it for the truth. If it is chosen it will definitely be unique- UND will be the only U. with a nickname chosen to honor a fairytale history.

UND Bust it is!!!! Bust yeah yeah! Yeah bust bust!

So you're saying my point would be incorrect if we revised history..... Hmmm... I guess I'll agree with you there... . But I'll still stick by my point under the current laws and history of the 3 dimensional world I am currently living in.

All there is left to say to that is Holy semantics Batman

"Stay North Dakota", in the context of this discussion, always refers to staying with no nickname as we have been since ours was officially removed. It really isn't that difficult of a concept

Pride? How many milliseconds before we're referred to as Gay pride by opponents? (Not that there's anything wrong with that - My father's gay.) -Seinfeld. Please stay with us in the no new nickname crowd, we're glad you're with us!

Lol. Best post in this thread!

As was mentioned it's a big gay white guy, so that's how they covered the diversity angle.

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