GMan

Another significant event that has helped the Galax high school soccer program has been the addition of Graham to the MED.  Before the addition of Graham, Galax had never lost a district soccer match.  This season, Galax's only loss heading to a group 1A state title was a 4-3 decision to Graham.
 
It has become a very good rivalry in more sports than just football, and we all like rivalries.

I have refereed youth soccer on a volunteer basis in Galax for 8 years.  When I started, we had teams in every age group through high school.  Now we have 7U and 10U, only.  Because of the high latino population of this area, we couldn't schedule matches.  Our 13U team defeated Pulaski 10-0 and could have beaten them 20-0 if the kids hadn't gotten together and decided among themselves to not shoot anything on goal for the entire second half.  After that match in 2009, our teams started showing up to matches in empty fields.  Teams started no-showing our kids without warning and forfeiting matches.  The following season, we were only able to schedule matches with North Carolina teams as all neighboring localities refused to schedule us.
 
The result has benefited Galax soccer in ways unimaginable.  We are playing many more matches and against significantly better competition.  Our varsity program, many of which were members of the team in the previously mentioned Pulaski game, won the VHSL state championship.
 
Given these kids lineage, I would assume this lady wouldn't approve.  They have, however, been awarded the VHSL state tournament sportsmanship award every year they have qualified for state competition since Galax began it's soccer program.  All while receiving blatantly racist harassment, ridicule, abuse and even, in one instance, physical assault.
 
I love the game!  it is simplistically complicated and, like most sports, teaches lessons far beyond the pitch!

This issue has been blown out of proportion and Dan Snyder is not the party that did that.  To be honest, this is not about people being offended or our government trying to help natives.  This is a smoke screen for politicians in power.  There are currently more scandals going on than this country should put up with.  From Obamacare to the prisoner swap to the IRS to Benghazi to the current affairs in Iraq.....see where this is going.  Harry Reid does not give a damn about native americans nor does anyone in the White House.  I dont give a damn what the team name is.  The issue that is "offensive" is the government trying to muscle in and push their own agenda in the private sector.  I am guessing you are a young guy, not a jab at you...enjoy it because you get old quick.  However, I am not enjoying watching our country changing into a socialist nation.  Wake up man this is not about a logo. 

It is not as offensive as having 100 tons of political correctness shoved down your throat.  As somehow changing the name of a sports team will make up for hundreds of years of abuse and neglect of native americans.  Beware Notre Dame fans, someone in the near future may think of the name "fighting irish" as a jaundiced view that all people Irish like to abuse alcohol and fight.

Oh where to begin lol. The entire country would be better off if Harry Reid never went to a Washington Redskins game again or for that matter just never went back to Washington D.C. at all. We have far more important issues for the government to be focusing in than a NFL team mascot.
Also, even if it weren't politicians pushing this, the whole argument is still juvenile and petty. Why is it a crime if a small group of people are offended by something. There comes a time when you just have to overlook certain minority opinions no matter how loud they yell. If you don't, then you give random radical minorities the power to change the entire nation. I mean if the Redskins are forced to change their names where does it stop? Whose to stop someone from complaining that Notre Dame needs to change their mascot because it depicts people of Irish descent as being violent and wanting to fight.
Finally, if Harry Reid really cares about the Native American Indians then why doesn't he push some legislation to help them get some of their land back and provide more opportunities for them to get better jobs so they are better able to provide for their families. I personally think the Native Americans have more to complain about than any other minority but changing the name of a football team isn't going to make their day to day life any better or easier. If these people who say they care about the Native Americans really do, then prove it by doing something meaningful to help them rather than going on the news and talking about how racist and offensive a NFL team name is.
 
The inmates are running the asylum!!!

The platinum rule: "Whatever Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi say, the opposite is the correct choice".

Yep, you need to do something about the espn stuff.

Detroit is a sad case but that's what happens when you sell your soul to the Unions and the President of the US sends all your jobs to Mexico...
 
Unfortunately, this is what SWVA is going to look like in a few years after O'bama and his EPA henchmen kill coal.  They began putting the final nail in the coffin this past week...

Detroit is a sad case but that's what happens when you sell your soul to the Unions and the President of the US sends all your jobs to Mexico...
 
Unfortunately, this is what SWVA is going to look like in a few years after O'bama and his EPA henchmen kill coal.  They began putting the final nail in the coffin this past week...

As painful as it is for me as a Southerner to say this, General George Sherman had it right:  "War is cruelty.  There is no use trying to reform it.  The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over".  Machiavelli said, "..it is much safer to be feared than to be loved..."  And Curtis Lemay may have said it best, albeit rather crudely, when he said, "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting". 
 
I cannot for the life of me understand why our government does not get it that appeasement does not work, will not work and has never worked.  Time to get out the Big Stick...and use it.

And what about soldiers who were killed looking for this guy when he went AWOL?  This whole thing stinks to high heaven but it will be pooh poohed away just like the rest of the administrations scandals.

Our president doing something
(1) illegal and
(2) against our Nation's interest?
 

 
Worthless deserter got 6 actual soldiers killed. He should've rotted in Afghanistan until Jesus deals with him.

Best post ever.

Its called reality, not negativity.  Hate this new societal approach where you can't state the truth if its not in a positive light.

LOL!  Yeh, after I re-read it a day later, I was like "you idiot, he meant playing non-conference games vs. conference teams".  

A 9 game conference schedule is outta wack...some folks play five home/four away while others play four home/five away.  Stick with 8 and tell Notre Dame to either go "all in" or get the f^$& out...

A 9 game conference schedule is outta wack...some folks play five home/four away while others play four home/five away.  Stick with 8 and tell Notre Dame to either go "all in" or get the f^$& out...

WOW!  What a kick in the 'nads that choice is for the Birds...especially since they had such higher expectations...

I remember when Graham WAS a very good football program.  Look at them now.

I remember when Graham WAS a very good football program.  Look at them now.

And that is sad, too.  Lots of talent down that way.  A good coach with the support of the school administration and the community could build a monster program down that way...

And that is sad, too.  Lots of talent down that way.  A good coach with the support of the school administration and the community could build a monster program down that way...

And that is sad, too.  Lots of talent down that way.  A good coach with the support of the school administration and the community could build a monster program down that way...

Babcock is exactly what VT needed.