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Demguy81

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14. Its never popular

Reply to Polybius (Reply #11)

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 01:20 PM

Nov 2021

It's not so much racism, but people having grown up with the team. People underestimate how difficult it is to separate their family memories of watching the team win if the current team has a different name. Still need to change it though.

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