And we think we can call this an institution of HIGHER education?

Leave it to the students at the host university of the weekly ESPN College Gameday extravaganza to, once again, show what kind of trail of thought often accompanies football fans, and sports fans in general, in this country.

Leave it to Deadspin to give almost a recurring commentary to it too.

This, the first week of college football in 2014, ESPN was at Oklahoma State, playing Florida State, and we get THIS gem:



For those who do not know, the Trail of Tears was the forced removal of Indian nations in the 1830's... from places like Florida. This included the Seminole Nation.

Oklahoma State's response is to say they demanded the sign removed.

BULL - SHIT.

This has been a CONSTANT "feature" of ESPN Gameday, not to mention numerous ESPN broadcasts (including a high-school game several years back with clear homophobic references).

The only way this stops is ESPN and the member schools taking hard stances on these signs, and that's not going to happen.

This includes sanctions against the students -- and that's not going to happen in the day and age of smack talk.