Texas Tech Bans "Vick 'Em" Anti-Aggie T-Shirt

[sandgk]

It's only a T-shirt, or it is the size of the fight in the dog hanging from the leash.

Yahoo - Sports - Tech bans T-shirts featuring A&M's dog mascot being hanged

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Texas Tech has banned the sale of a T-shirt featuring a drawing of a football player dangling Texas A&M's dog mascot by her leash. The red shirts, with black text reading "VICK 'EM" on the front in a reference to the Aggies' slogan "Gig 'em," were created by a Tech student who said he has sold roughly 300 of the shirts through his fraternity ahead of Saturday's game against Texas A&M in Lubbock.
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The back shows a football player, wearing Michael Vick's No. 7, hanging the mascot Reveille from the end of her leash. The suspended NFL quarterback has pleaded guilty to a federal dogfighting charge, admitting that he helped kill six to eight dogs.

The infamous shirt - oh, yes the fraternity has been suspended and may be up on code of conduct charges for this piece of art.

 

[GoodLifeSean]

It's only a T-shirt, or it is the size of the fight in the dog hanging from the leash.

Yahoo - Sports - Tech bans T-shirts featuring A&M's dog mascot being hanged



The infamous shirt - oh, yes the fraternity has been suspended and may be up on code of conduct charges for this piece of art.

Don't get me wrong, that's some sick crap, but suspending a fraternity for it, come on. They did the same thing at Miami one year to the business fraternity for using Miami's then You're here b/c you're smart motto and changing it to "You're here because you're drunk" for Green Beer Day. There is a difference between bad taste and actually creating harm. No one got hurt over the shirts, no dogs were probably killed in thier production. Jesus, administrators need to calm the f*** down.

 

[Gatorubet]

There is a difference between bad taste and actually creating harm. No one got hurt over the shirts, no dogs were probably killed in thier production. Jesus, administrators need to calm the f*** down.

That's what Jeffcat said....

 

[HailToMichigan]

Just a question. Anyone suppose there would be anywhere near the reaction if the shirts depicted a different animal mascot, say, a Longhorn being similarly hung by the throat? Or a human mascot such as the Cowboy of Oklahoma State?

Personally, I'd bet not.

The shirts are in poor taste, but shirts of equally poor taste show up on every campus every football season. Particularly at any school that South Carolina visits so some wag prints up a bunch of Beat The Cocks tees. Hardly anything to suspend a fraternity over.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

My memory is a bit hazy after 20 years, but I think I remember a similar incident at Ohio State.

In 1986 there was a t-shirt that depicted a pants-down and crouching Bo Schembechler in front of an OSU character with a large bone in his hands (think T-Rex femur). The caption on the t-shirt was "Bone Bo".

I think that the shirt was produced by a fraternity and that the frat got in hot water over it. What I know for certain was that a big deal was made of it, and I only saw one of the t-shirts at the game after the media made it sound like the entire crowd would be wearing them.

Granted, the "Vick 'Em" shirts are making light of a horrid situation and in that sense are in much poorer taste...

 

[MaxBuck]

Good lord, if doing something in poor taste warrants suspending a fraternity, there would have been no fraternities when I was in school.

School administrators have a lot more important things to concern themselves with.