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Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Benjamin Grimm Jul 03 2020 06:33 PM

The team, under unprecedented pressure, is going to do a "thorough review" of the team's name. I don't know how long it should take to review a two-syllable word, but there you have it.

Frayed Knot Jul 03 2020 06:56 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I think the team, meaning owner Daniel Snyder, is trying to figure out a way to save face on the name change that he swore just a few years ago was NEVER coming: 'and you can quote me on that and put it in all CAPS' was (more or less) his quote. But the change is obviously coming so it's only a matter of when not if. The league is pressuring them to change and now major sponsors have jumped aboard including Fed Ex (whose name is on their freakin stadium) and Nike who have taken Redskins merchandise off their websites. And when 'see no evil' corporations like the NFL & Nike get behind something -- even belatedly and only on the heels of recent racial turmoil -- you know it's an idea well past its due date.

Fman99 Jul 03 2020 07:59 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

They should just change it to red skin potatoes - they can keep the name and just change the mascot and the merch.

Lefty Specialist Jul 04 2020 11:20 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Cleveland Indians also looking for the 'Best path forward'. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29406956/cleveland-indians-determine-best-path-forward-team-name

TransMonk Jul 06 2020 06:16 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I still don't think Snyder will change the name. He's been on team Trump from the beginning and he'll use Trump's tweet from this morning as cover for as long as he can. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural festivities

Edgy MD Jul 06 2020 07:04 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I kind of think that once you undergo a "thorough review," whatever that is, you're kind of letting the toothpaste out of the tube. Then again, Snyder is real slithery, and if anybody can get the toothpaste back in, he can.

nymr83 Jul 06 2020 07:38 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Thorough review means "we have names we like, but we are investigating which we can trademark and how profitable each is likely to be"

LWFS Jul 13 2020 08:51 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Maybe something honoring the D.C. punk scene? All the choices-- Minor Threat, Fugazi, Bad Brains-- seem neatly, doubly resonant. Anyway, it's official as of this morning. New name TBA.

MFS62 Jul 13 2020 09:24 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Thorough review means "we have names we like, but we are investigating which we can trademark and how profitable each is likely to be" According to ABC news this morning, the name they like is already taken and they are exploring negotiations with the owner of that name/logo. Later

kcmets Jul 13 2020 09:30 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Washington Chuckleheads has a nice ring to it. Assclowns?

Ceetar Jul 13 2020 09:37 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/WillBrinson/status/1282669101597503495[/TWEET]

TransMonk Jul 13 2020 02:42 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Wow, I was wrong...though, you have to love the team's ability to read the room by issuing the press release announcing that the logo and name will no longer be used on letterhead that features the logo and name.

nymr83 Jul 13 2020 02:58 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

=TransMonk post_id=40369 time=1594672959 user_id=71] Wow, I was wrong...though, you have to love the team's ability to read the room by issuing the press release announcing that the logo and name will no longer be used on letterhead that features the logo and name.

they should have printed it out, scribbled over the logo, done a sloppy diagonal scan of it, and released that. would have been hilarious.

Frayed Knot Jul 13 2020 03:12 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

=TransMonk post_id=40369 time=1594672959 user_id=71] Wow, I was wrong ...

Once the money started to go [Fed Ex, Nike, Amazon] even Daniel Snyder's arrogance has its limits.

LWFS Jul 14 2020 11:04 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Frayed Knot wrote: =TransMonk post_id=40369 time=1594672959 user_id=71] Wow, I was wrong ... Once the money started to go [Fed Ex, Nike, Amazon] even Daniel Snyder's arrogance has its limits.

Here's the thing: WHY did the money just start to go NOW? Because they felt the crushing impending vacuum of customer dollars?



And where the hell where these right-side-of-history corporate wads when it was unfashionable? Fuck THEM too, honestly.

MFS62 Jul 15 2020 06:20 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Why not "The Team Formerly Known as the Redskins" and give it a Prince-type symbol as the logo? Later

Frayed Knot Jul 15 2020 02:33 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Frayed Knot wrote: =TransMonk post_id=40369 time=1594672959 user_id=71] Wow, I was wrong ... Once the money started to go [Fed Ex, Nike, Amazon] even Daniel Snyder's arrogance has its limits. Here's the thing: WHY did the money just start to go NOW? Because they felt the crushing impending vacuum of customer dollars? And where the hell where these right-side-of-history corporate wads when it was unfashionable? Fuck THEM too, honestly.

Well, sure.



There's also a stadium deal in this for Snyder if he plays his cards right.

Their current stadium (only 26 years old but pre-Snyder) is one no one likes and is a place no one likes (Suburban Md). The 'ancestral' home of the erstwhile 'Skins' is eastern DC where the old RFK stadium still is.

The idea to put a new stadium there, back in the city and more easily reachable to DC residents and those on the Virginia side of town, has been floated for years. But DC is, of course, federal land and neither

they nor the city of DC wanted to do Snyder any favors while he was still toting around that name. That some are convinced that moving the team back 'where it belongs' is going to instantly reverse their fortunes

are kidding themselves since it's tough to overestimate how much damage the Snyder era has done to the image of that team which OWNED the city 12 months a year for decades!



But wait, there's more!!!

Various sources are touting variations on a story that there's a whole buncha trash about to come down the chute. Nobody seems to be tipping their hand ... yet, but apparently a to-be released Washington Post

story is coming out on Thursday, and those in the know are just now hinting at it:

- “The warped and toxic culture of the Washington Football Team is about to be exposed in a sickening fashion . . . Again” [CBS' Jason La Canfora, a former team beat reporter]

- “What's coming is disappointing and sad.” [Julie Donaldson, NBC Sports]

- “There is much more going on . . . than a name change . . And it's not good. I did not get specifics, but get ready people.” [Scott Abraham of ABC 7]

- “A real busy week. And it's not all going to be about the name and it's not all going to be pretty.” [JP Finlay NBC Sports Washington]

TransMonk Jul 16 2020 08:15 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Twitter is on fire that damning news about Daniel Snyder will be released today or tomorrow. Most are speculating it will be sell-the-team-type bad. I was a Redskins fan from the time I was 11 until 2016. I jumped to the Rams when they moved to LA. I made the switch because I didn't like the owner, coach, QB and fan base. But I also made the switch because I could not defend the name. It clashed with what my core beliefs had become. I switched to a new team that was in a new city with a new QB and a new coach and stadium on the way. I'm glad I made the switch. Especially this week.

Edgy MD Jul 16 2020 08:45 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

1. Snyder has long since failed to demonstrate that he is much more than a poopyface. 2. Yes, posters at the MOFo used to pine for him to buy the Mets. 3. The president touts him as a friend and supporter. 4. Minority owners had apparently gotten wind of the story and had been trying to sell their shares before it breaks.

Fman99 Jul 16 2020 08:47 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Edgy MD wrote: 3. The president touts him as a friend and supporter. I can't think of a single scenario where I'd read this and then not go "wow, he must be a total bag of shit."

Ceetar Jul 16 2020 10:06 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

would they just break it already? how does a story that, supposedly, is so horrible become rumor for days and weeks? Especially if minority owners know? Which means family members probably know, secretaries, etc.

Frayed Knot Jul 16 2020 04:58 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

So the bombshell dropping is that fifteen female ex-employees of the team are making accusations of sexual harassment and/or verbal abuse in the workplace.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 23 2020 01:27 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

The new name for 2020 for the Washington Football Team will be the ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington Football Team. “Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the ‘Washington Football Team,' pending adoption of a new name,” ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted Thursday morning. https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/the-washington-football-team-has-a-new-name-sort-of/

Benjamin Grimm Jul 23 2020 01:55 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Take THAT, squatter!

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2020 02:18 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

btw, the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League recently announced their intention to change the team's nickname

ashie62 Jul 23 2020 02:28 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

The Eskimos also. Dang Washington Football team sounds like a soccer team name

whippoorwill Jul 23 2020 03:31 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

=Fman99 post_id=39840 time=1593827979 user_id=86] They should just change it to red skin potatoes - they can keep the name and just change the mascot and the merch.

Still giggling

Lefty Specialist Jul 24 2020 09:54 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Now someone with a lick of sense quietly trademarks potential names well in advance even if you publicly deny you're changing anything. This is done all the time, and was probably done by some of the people they're fighting in trademark court right now.

TransMonk Jul 24 2020 10:00 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I'm pretty sure this is why they settled on the generic "Football Team" moniker. Their first 25 name choices were likely already trademarked in anticipation of the change eventually coming.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 24 2020 10:15 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I wouldn't cave to the squatter. He can't have thought of every possible name. I'd just say to hell with him, and name the team the Washington Doorknobs, or the Washington Shoelaces, or the Washington Dung Beetles. The list of possible names is endless!

metsmarathon Jul 24 2020 11:48 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

in a surprise move, the team renames itself the D.C. Redskins

batmagadanleadoff Jul 24 2020 11:50 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I like Washington Bullets.

Edgy MD Jul 24 2020 12:50 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wouldn't cave to the squatter. He can't have thought of every possible name. I'd just say to hell with him, and name the team the Washington Doorknobs, or the Washington Shoelaces, or the Washington Dung Beetles. The list of possible names is endless! Pandas. Activists. Independents. Senators. Antifa. One danger is that, by the time our cultural moment has waned, the city itself may have been renamed.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 24 2020 01:04 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Or they can just say that now the city named after Denzel.

Edgy MD Jul 24 2020 01:14 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

And Denzel is probably only named "Washington" because he's descended from a Washington-family slave. His father was a Virginian. Circles within circles.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 16 2021 10:35 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Washington Football fans were apparently polled (and if you've ever been poled, you know how painful that can be) with a list of potential names for the former Redskins. If I were a fan of the team, I wouldn't be too pleased with any of these. I might like "Swifts" if the logo includes the bird, and not Taylor. Griffins might be good too, if it's the lion-eagle creature, and not Merv. The Washington Rubies The Washington Commanders The Washington Pilots The Washington Renegades The Washington Rising The Washington Warriors The Washington Armada The Washington Swifts Washington DC Football Club (DCFC) The Washington Griffins Washington Brigade Washington Royals Washington Icons Washington Redhogs Washington Aviators Washington Wayfarers Washington Redwolves Washington Monarchs Washington Demon Cats https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/91/Marvel_Team-Up_Vol_1_78.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20070704032741> https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/27160019/markus-tallroth_500.jpg?width=800>

kcmets Apr 16 2021 11:24 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Write-in vote: Washington Mudslingers

MFS62 Apr 16 2021 11:28 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I would vote for Washington Foggy Bottoms. Later

Double Switch Apr 16 2021 11:38 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

RE: "lion-eagle creature" - only if they spell it Gryphon - not to be confused with any person or persons unknown. I will suggest a totally innocuous name - the Washington Fleet. Fleet has several connotations - a bunch of boats, for one. Speedy, for another. But there is an enema by that name as well, which opens the door (pardon me) for potential memes.

Willets Point Apr 16 2021 11:49 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I remember the jokes when the Boston Bruins/Celtics arena was known as the Fleet Center.

kcmets Apr 16 2021 11:51 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

=MFS62 post_id=61100 time=1618594130 user_id=60]I would vote for Washington Foggy Bottoms.

Made me think -- Washington Nancypants.

kcmets Apr 16 2021 11:51 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Willets Point wrote: I remember the jokes when the Boston Bruins/Celtics arena was known as the Fleet Center. Fleece Center, right?

Willets Point Apr 16 2021 12:20 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

That. And the Enema Center.

Frayed Knot Apr 16 2021 01:18 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"? Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Apr 19 2021 04:50 AM

Write-in vote: Washington Mudslingers the Bureaucrats the Gerrymanders the Loopholes the Pork Barrels the Supremes (except that Berry Gordy might sue) the Deadlocks (who'll be the first Deadlock w/dreadlocks?) the Reconciliators the Sub-Commitees the Potomacs the Anacostias the Lobbyists the Deficits (OK, that one's not too good) the Pentagons (wait til you see their hats!!) the Deep States

kcmets Apr 16 2021 01:20 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I like the Patomacs!

Benjamin Grimm Apr 16 2021 01:30 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

I do too. I was thinking that would be a good name for the Expos after they relocated.

metsmarathon Apr 16 2021 01:42 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Washington royals would seem to be a terrible name

Lefty Specialist Apr 18 2021 06:48 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

The team in to Keanu Reeves classic 'The Replacements' was the Washington Sentinels, which is generic and non-offensive.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 18 2021 08:07 PM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Unless you're a Marvel Universe mutant, of course.

Edgy MD Apr 19 2021 07:01 AM Re: Anyone remember the "Washington Redskins"?

Washington went through this once before, not too long ago in the great scheme of things. When the NBA team dropped "The Bullets" as a nickname, the renaming of the team was turned over to the fans — via a poll featuring multiple obviously unworkable or confusing options and one boring-but-best-of-a-bad lot option that the organization had seemingly already selected anyhow. Marketing 311: Making Everyone Equally Happy by Making Them Equally Unhappy.