Loe I.Q. a.m., Television Three, Friday 29 November 2019, 7:12 a.m.
The Canterbury Crusaders is a splendid football team, no question about that. However, the controversial name and some of the team’s iconography and practices—especially broadsword-waving Crusader knights on horseback racing round the field before kick-off—are again being called into question. To discuss this, the hard-working and thoughtful producers at the a.m. show brought in a leading intellectual…..
RICHARD LOE: Why are they only picking on Christchurch? In England, there are several teams called the Knights. And they sing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and isn’t that some sort of a slavery song?
DUNCAN GARNER: Should the Canterbury Crusaders change their name?
RICHARD LOE: To be honest, I’m probably like a lot of people and had to Google what the Crusaders were! They weren’t very successful, unlike the Canterbury Crusaders!
Sycophantic laughter from the men, while Amanda Gillies looks troubled….
a.m., Television Three, Friday 29 November 2019, 7:12 a.m.