Here I am on Xbox Live sporting the recently released University Collection package in the Avatar Marketplace.  Yeah yeah, before you hate on me for buying useless clothing or accessories let me just say that football is a different story.  Especially college football in my mind.  You don’t change your favorite college team because they are sucking.  That’s who you grew up with and that’s who you stick with.

Today on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft have released the “University Collection”, a plethora of Avatar goodies for you to purchase.   The new collection features a substantial list of collegiate teams from all over the US with various items of clothing adorned with the school logo or name.  Don’t worry though, this stuff is officially licensed so all of the items have the school’s official name and colors.  I went online to purchase a few items I wanted from my school and ran across a small bug on Microsoft’s part.  The one thing I noticed?  Lack of spellcheck on one item for a particular school.  It just so happened to be MY favorite school. Arkansas.

As you can see, it is entitled “Arkanasas”.  This is an actual screencap from the Xbox Live Marketplace. I don’t know when this issue will get fixed, but I figure for the moment it’s kind of funny.

As a little history lesson for Microsoft if they read this, the name Arkansas was derived from both French and Indian settlers of that region.  At one point in history, it was actually illegal to pronounce it “Ark-an-SAS” instead of its proper pronunciation “Ark-an-SAW”.

Looks like I’m going to be sporting even more jokey material for my home state.  I feel like we as a state just got over all that “having sex with your sister” crap and Bill Clinton.  And now this? Sheesh!  I’m gonna look like a hillbilly that can’t spell on Xbox Live!  Thanks Microsoft!