"Washington Football Team" is now the actual name of the organization? That's the best name they could come up with?

energeticlotuseater wrote:

turd burglar wrote:

Didn’t WaPo do a poll and actual Native Americans said they didn’t find “redskins” offensive by a massive margin? Like 98% or something crazy?

Agreed. Honestly the fact that Notre Dame are called the fighting Irish and their mascot is an angry leprechaun is just as “offensive” and stereotypical.

Sure but the a recent poll I did suggests 100% of actual irish people take pride in it so your opinion has little value.:) And yes my poll is about as valid as the WaPo one the racists love.

There is a quit a difference between using a slur. When they come for the indians, braves, and seminole's, I expect the irish will go also. So far most of the complaints about those names have been about cultural sterotypes and some cultural sketchy imagery. (see Chief Wahoo).

I don't care much for American Football wrote:

Like the artist formerly known as Prince, I think I'm going to refer to them as "The Team previously called the Redskins".

This should make everyone happy. Those who were offended by the former name have no reason to be since it's no longer the current name, and those whose were offended by the name change have no reason to be since the current name is reminiscent of the former name.

It's a win-win. Finally, something that isn't a zero-sum game.

^^^This.

It was marketing brilliance. Washington fans would never be happy with any other moniker for their team. Washington management never wanted to get rid of the Redskins name, so they answered their critics by doing so, but without actually replacing it. Genius.

It should be the Washington Team for Football - WTF

For the last few years, there has been an MLS team called the Los Angeles Football Club. That is pretty much the exact same name format, and it seems to be working fine.

“Football Team” seems a little offensive. After all, wasn’t it racist Football Teams that named themselves racist things and didn’t care about minorities getting concussions and dementia?

Calling themselves the Football Team is actually more racist than Redskins.

What, exactly, has Dan Snyder led or innovated to merit that $500M per year revenue? The organization, which has fielded rather mediocre teams since the late '80s, isn't doing anything special on their own. They're simply part of a peak(ed) sports entertainment league, they're doing little more than treading water in a larger wave. The ownership has been dumb for a while, which is exactly why they had no better plan. Hell, their only plan was to ride out the racist name to the bitter end.

Donk E. Kong wrote:

Mr. Pedantic wrote:

[quote]kingojamin wrote:

It is a place holder until they come up with the new name.

OP fail. 0/10

Agreed, but to be fair, they just lost to the Browns. So. They likely deserve any level of trolling.[/quot

Speaking of which, how are the Browns allowed to keep their name? So racist.

Back up, if you know your history it's actually scatalogical.

The fans picked the name in the 80's. They should just go with what the fans were calling themselves back than. HOGS!!!!

smell my watch wrote:

For the last few years, there has been an MLS team called the Los Angeles Football Club. That is pretty much the exact same name format, and it seems to be working fine.

That is a soccer tradition. There are hundreds of teams with junk names like FC, united, AC, and the like. The US soccer teams do it to try and capture some Euro cool vibe. You do wonder if that is what the Football team was going for. Maybe hoping everyone would buy into something like Washington FT as a cool name.

Donk E. Kong wrote:

Agreed, but to be fair, they just lost to the Browns. So. They likely deserve any level of trolling.[/quot

Speaking of which, how are the Browns allowed to keep their name? So racist.

The Browns were named after legendary football coach Paul Brown. Just like the Chiefs were named after a legendary owner everyone affectionately referred to as “Chief,” though I suspect the woke political activists will eventually force a name change there too. Arrowhead stadium is definitely going to have to change the name, even though nobody, save for leftist progressives who want to brown and black wash history, cares.

The Redskins could’ve changed the name to the Redtails to honor the Tuskegee Airmen (all blacks), which wouldn’t have been a huge change, but I’m sure somebody would’ve been offended by that somehow.

Plus, some a hole bought up all of the domain names that the Redskins might have otherwise been tempted to use.

At this point, the only correct thing to do is to call it the football team, because it’s impossible not to offend someone, especially this “up and coming” generation with their safe spaces and microaggresions. Plus, it’s a middle finger to all of them, which is funny.

They should keep it as it is now. And the people who want to continue to refer to them as the skins will be able to .

no need for a new mascot. sometimes simple is best.

even if it wasn't the best name, i would not give that d bag who bought out dozens of names a single dime.

Gentleman Savage wrote:

What, exactly, has Dan Snyder led or innovated to merit that $500M per year revenue? The organization, which has fielded rather mediocre teams since the late '80s, isn't doing anything special on their own. They're simply part of a peak(ed) sports entertainment league, they're doing little more than treading water in a larger wave. The ownership has been dumb for a while, which is exactly why they had no better plan. Hell, their only plan was to ride out the racist name to the bitter end.

Socialism and being a member of a monopoly really works. You would think by pure chance one of these sucky teams would hire a good coach and get lucky in the draft and win a playoff game or two but that rarely happens. It takes a lot to turn around a football club.

The chief nickname came from a boy scout tribe he lead. Most of those are sort of insulting. Realistically is the Cosplaying (head dress, red face, war paint,....) is the really offensive part more so than the name. See Florida State for a team that has a done. a good job with their native american relations.

sayer of this wrote:

I don't care much for American Football wrote:

Like the artist formerly known as Prince, I think I'm going to refer to them as "The Team previously called the Redskins".

This should make everyone happy. Those who were offended by the former name have no reason to be since it's no longer the current name, and those whose were offended by the name change have no reason to be since the current name is reminiscent of the former name.

It's a win-win. Finally, something that isn't a zero-sum game.

^^^This.

It was marketing brilliance. Washington fans would never be happy with any other moniker for their team. Washington management never wanted to get rid of the Redskins name, so they answered their critics by doing so, but without actually replacing it. Genius.

Also a way to sell more team products if they’re planning to change the name again in the future. Sell a bunch of Washington Football Team products to the fans this year and then sell a bunch of new stuff to them next season when they change the name again. Furthermore, in the future they’ll be able to pull out the “retro” Washington Football Team uniforms from 2020 if they decide to do so...and then sell even more gear at that point.

WFT is better than WTF

I was hoping they would pick something political, like Washington Congress or Monuments or something like that. All the ones floated seemed lacking in relevancy.

But they will have to keep the Washington Football Team for good now. I agree that it is so bad that it's good. I think the Marketing department knew exactly what they were doing.

that's the best you could do? wrote:

This is a professional sports franchise with $500m/yr in revenue and all kinds of high paid management and marketing people, and when it came time to drop the Redskins name, the best replacement they could come up with was "Washington Football Team"? Are they trying to be ironically simple minded like how some hipsterish businesses are named things like "that Bar," or are they really just this lacking in any kind of creativity?

The name change was a long time in the making and management had years to brainstorm. And still a swing and a miss when the time came.

It was Daniel Snyder giving the finger to the society for forcing his hand to change the name.

moefarah wrote:

It was Daniel Snyder giving the finger to the society for forcing his hand to change the name.

No it wasn't.

He merely got outplayed by others who bought the name choices he wanted to change it to.

Snyder is also involved in a sexual harassment scandal with team management.

This is not good times for him.

Maybe they could have kept the name Redskins but changed the logo to be a potato with an angry face and a mustache.