Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team will no longer wear a warm-up T-shirt before games with the phrase “burn the boats.”
Syracuse said it will stop wearing the shirts after concerns about the phrase were brought to its attention.
The origins of “Burn the Boats” trace back to the 1500s and Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, who famously ordered his men to burn their boats as a sign of no retreat in battle…