They meant well. An alert reader happens to know someone who goes to one of our prestigious colleges - Skidmore. Furthermore, this someone is on their crew...er, crew. Or team. Not sure what they call themselves.
As an amusing aside, I considered joining the crew..team/crew at Brown. Growing up around boats I figured I had an advantage since I knew how to row. Turns out, the sport of crewing, although all about rowing fast, does not require that you know how to do that. They'll teach you that bit - all you have to be is in superb shape. So I had the exact OPPOSITE skill set - already knew how to row, but was in mediocre shape.
But I digress. Apparently some eager crew fan at Skidmore made a bunch of sweatshirts for the crew team/crew and their groupies with "Skid" (obviously an affectionate nickname for the college) "Row" (the crewing bit) on them.
They all proudly wore them until some local curmudgeon (damn, beat me to the punch) pointed out the meaning of the term to the youngsters who had never been exposed to it.
Students being who they are, they wear them even more proudly now.
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