Actually, depending on your definition, “goon” is not a terrible word. Google’s second definition of goon: a violent, aggressive person who is hired to intimidate or harm people.Hes not a goon, Hes a human being with a pituitary imbalance, no need for name calling.
There were also definitions alluding to a reduced intelligence: but isn’t that common knowledge about any purdue fan, student, athlete, Etc.? (Of course I am just trying to be humorous. I know that’s not true of ALL boilermakers).
And, IMO, I’d rather be called goon than boilermaker.
But Kurt, please correct me, if you have a meaning of goon (that didn’t make the first page of google) that is offensive To You.