Rams should be a fan of the Reds instead of the Browns.
Dolphins Don Jones suspended for tweeting about Michael Sam
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Only because I had said HS. But 15-19 is close enough to see I was wrong about increased HS pregnancies.Comment
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Having shortened their name brought them some trouble in the 1950s, or more accurately the fear of trouble. The term "Reds" in the political arena had long been a synonym for "Communist". During the McCarthy era,[3] even though there was no connection between professional baseball and Communism, the team was concerned that their traditional club nickname would associate them with the Communist Threat and the Cold War, so they officially changed their name to the "Cincinnati Redlegs". From 1956 to 1960, the club's logo was altered to remove the term "REDS" from the inside of the "wishbone C" symbol. The "REDS" reappeared on the 1961 uniforms, although habits being what they were, by then they were often called "Redlegs", and that name took a few years to totally fade out. (Okkonen)
An NFL entry that played briefly in the early 1930s was called the Cincinnati Reds.
The nickname "Red Stockings" and its descendants reflect one of the oldest nicknames in baseball, topped only by the Athletics, originally of Philadelphia, and now in Oakland.Comment
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