autoreplace for washington r******s

rhubarbs

DUMPLINGS!!

burrito stall

hatcats obv

hatcat

lol xpost

hatcats is strong! i can't believe i missed that one

yeah I think it's the best

huskies

armenians

rednecks

ramekins

hatcat

hatcat

pigskins
histrionic revolutionary peoples

autochthons

beringia

homunculi

washington department of football

colonial other

small pox blankets

hogs

Bullets

fatcats

reagans

obamacare

syria

commie pinkos

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Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

HATCAT WINS

right?

i like the obamacares

yeah obamacares is a good contender in a strong field, but it looks like hatcat has it 4-3 over generals. that is a mandate if ever i saw one.

I honestly thought this poll was going to be five entries for hatcat

yea i know, i went stevan ridley on this shit

btw i am just gonna request 'hatcat' the word, as much as we all enjoy the jpg i think that would get almost TOO real at times. if anyone objects, let me know in the next 1 minute, thx

come on now, "Generals" will forever be remembered as New Jersey's USFL franchise. (by me and maybe 23 other people anyway....)

just had a great discussion about this with a co-worker. he asked me if i had heard about "all this fuss" about the r******s name, and that he thought it was bogus. there's no reason for anyone to get offended, he can't understand why anyone would, and he doesn't consider the term slanderous or racist. then i asked him about who was leading the effort to change the name, and he said some native american groups were involved. uhh...

he also said

"there was a time when geronimo was on the u.s. nickel - it's an honor."

can't argue with that!

There's a Native American on a U.S. coin now! What the hell is his point?

he is completely insane.

i vote for Redskin Peanuts

the washington white black red yellow polka dot skins no matter what i will still love you

how about the Washington Longpigs?

the washington taxations without representations

do people still call the wizards the bullets for nostalgia? would the NRA have protested that name change if they'd tried it in 2013? QUESTIONS

hatcat

i sure do love the washington dc football club known as the washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

you know what team I am starting to appreciate, is the Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://i.imgur.com/4et4pLQ.jpg

lol

how can we make this happen in real life

shd use the small one w the background blown out from a few years ago

good call on the hatcats

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

romo

tony romo

can we replace "tony romo" with a link to the video to "Ballerina Girl"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24027457

thanks bbc

Views of http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG fans on forums

• "I have a feeling this touchiness over language is a passing phase in culture."
• "I have become convinced that, being in the crosshairs of the PC crowd, it's only a matter of time before the name changes. Hate it, but the issue is not going away - we deal with it every year and the voices get louder and louder."
• "I'm soooo tired of all the PC stuff. This country needs to pull on its big boy pants, and worry about real problems."

Washington Benghazis

washington tea party

i was thinking 'washington romanticized thieves and rapists' but i guess it is too close to tampa and oakland nicknames

thanksgiving http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://home.centurytel.net/rshannon/logos/skins.gif

rick reilly stands athwart history, yelling stop

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9689220/http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-name-change-not-easy-sounds

omg

http://es.pn/154hm4x

lmao

It's definitely time for the 'Wagon burners' and 'Prairie n-----s' to change their team names, I agree.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0918/nfl_g_chiefs_fan_b1_300x300.jpg
Caption: Headdresses are traditionally worn on important occasions by Native Americans who have worked to earn each feather.

jason witten's head does a full on O RLY in the ad above that piece

Doesn't matter. The 81-year-old Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG name is falling, and everybody better get out of the way. For the majority of Native Americans who don't care, we'll care for them. For the Native Americans who haven't asked for help, we're glad to give it to them.

Trust us. We know what's best. We'll take this away for your own good, and put up barriers that protect you from ever being harmed again.

Kind of like a reservation.

dude

fn srs

crazy how in all his travels he couldnt track down anyone but silly paternal whites who disagreed w the name

i look forward to the "Fighting Irish" false equivalency cropping up in every goddamn piece on this from now on

Or worse...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/FightingWhites.png

http://www.gunssavelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/no-irish.jpg

he is unlikely to live those last two paragraphs (not to mention the rest of it) down

it is long past time that reilly was taken out back and shot

was there really a poll where 90% of native americans said they were fine w/ the r*dskins name?

cause i mean, i still think it's bad, but that would kind of be good infos to know

i imagine that several BIG BOSSES at ESPN wanted to manufacture a contrived counterpoint to the clear and obvious point of "hey this team name is a clear racial slur that refers to SKIN COLOR and somehow managed to limp into the 21st century with this hella outdated and generally offensive name" so that they weren't perceived to be looking at both sides of the issue and down to the bullpen they went and who raised their goddamned hand but rick fucking reilly
i mean for crying out loud the article tag on the sidebar reads: "Not A Cause For Everyone - The outrage over the name http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG isn't universal."

i mean just bleh

I just don't quite know how to tell my father-in-law, a Blackfeet Indian. He owns a steak restaurant on the reservation near Browning, Mont. He has a hard time seeing the slap-in-the-face part.

reservation pass: verified

buzzfeed but good: http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/how-the-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-debate-goes-over-on-an-actual-indian-reserv

otm

http://is.gd/doDlBE

can we replace braves too

omg robert redford just talked abt 'the skins game' in this movie im watching!

Spy Games?

ya

lol

http://www.theonion.com/articles/washington-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-change-their-name-to-the-dc-re,34161/

hatcat

i knew that would happen and just went for it anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgJvqyZNjs

what's the result

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

oh lol

lmfao http://deadspin.com/rick-reillys-american-indian-father-in-law-says-reilly-1443599450

Burns closes by saying, "Let me be clear: The racial slur 'http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG' is not okay with me. It’s never going to be okay with me. It’s inappropriate, damaging and racist. In the memory of our Blackfeet relatives, it’s time to change the name."

loooooooooooooooooooooool

couldn't happen to a nicer douchecanoe

well, maybe albom

we can only hope

Rick Reilly @ReillyRick
10th October 2013 from TwitLonger

While I stand by the reporting in my Sept. 18 column about the Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG nickname controversy, and felt I accurately quoted my father-in-law in the piece, clearly he feels differently. This is an incredibly sensitive issue, and Bob felt he had more to say on the subject after that column was posted on ESPN.com. We've spoken and cleared this up. I admire Bob and respect his opinions, and he's welcome to express them. Bob and I are good and I'm looking forward to my next steak with him.

'my father-in-law is a liar'

sooo fucked

what's the result

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, October 9, 2013 4:32 PM (Yesterday)

not positive

co-worker: red skins in the conference room.
ILXor: Yeah, I'd like to eat some of those potatoes!
co-worker: o_O

<ILXor goes to conference room, sees it's http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG >

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow i hate reilly so much what a fucking dick

http://mweb.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24137527/could-the-washington-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-become-the-washington-bravehearts

they shd just call themselves the senators, the senators has always been the funniest team name, time to bring it back

senator would also be a really cool name for a child just fyi any expecting parents out there

maybe i am just naive, but a GIS for 'woad' returns a lot more semi-naked women than i expected

should be the poti (plural of potus)

not worth linking to the article this was on, but:

noodles5
• an hour ago

Change names to Weenies, Wussies, Pooty Tats, Kitties, Bowsers, jac-o-lanterns, Pooh Bears, puppy dogs, panty waists, drag queens, tin men, orchids, fuscias, rosies, tulips, onions, turds, etc. You know......spread it around with these manly man names. Yeah boy, we don't want to offend anyone.

I would wholeheartedly root for the Washington Pooty Tats

I have always loathed the (redacted) but the Pooty Tats would be a refreshing name.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXTXOoLIMAAlcYC.jpg

@KDTrey5 thanks for the @nike and your #http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG support. Love the burgundy and gold. - from Dan Snyder #HTTR

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

just cos http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

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!

Radio analyst Chris Cooley praised for candor commenting on former http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG teammates

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdB5p6tIEAEv90p.jpg

SE JEROME

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/faa378da8b5589a8613154d992a3823e/tumblr_myumxvqnrG1qz8bvfo1_1280.png

hahahaha that's an actual question from a metro survey isn't it

<3 SE jerome 4eva look at that smile <3

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24402378/us-patent-and-trademark-office-deems-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-derogatory

washington hog rinds --> perfect

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdltF9wIYAAZ3Rf.jpg

i think that is the new hatcat

somehow the unzoomed 1 is weirder
http://cdn3.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-January-9-18-49-42.jpg

lol at communicating with robert griffin iii

is that what hes doing

like psychically

lindsey czarniaks face is otm

i watched part of that interview, jay gruden p said "we'll get em coached up and see what happens" to every q

dying at that pic

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Washington Hatcats Hire All-Star Team of Villains

ha wow that is quite a lineup

holy shit

continuing to be the feelgood team of the nfl

Head of Snyder's new Washington R******s Original Americans Foundation bilked the Bureau of Indian Affairs out of nearly $1 million:

http://wapo.st/1myqHbT

Let's just move this team to L.A. and call it something else.

Yes, I am advocating the forced removal and re-settlement of this team, before anyone asks.

at this point Asian Americans are sort of tired that they're the racial group in America that it's okay to make 'satirical' jokes about when you want to make a point about race relations in America.

If I were Asian perhaps I would feel differently, but I don't get this at all. I encounter plenty of OTT jokes re: Jews, African-Americans, Latinos or other prominent minorities enlisted to make a point about race relations in America. For example:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-kike-owner-refuses-to-change-teams-offens,34292/?ref=auto

Is this different?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 28, 2014 10:59 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where the fuck did that cat come from?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 28, 2014 10:59 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying here.

hatcat is a much needed moment of sanity in a world where there is still a sports team with this name

askacat/hatcat.JPG-kike-owner

there are many a comment section a hatcat autoreplace would be a godsend

e.g. the whole of Twitter at the moment

dan snyder's washington hatcats feline millinery foundation

pplains otm

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g1tNBH2u9-U/US_3Hhk-MMI/AAAAAAAACIY/rNoXTwRUfas/s1600/MASHLASTSHOT.jpg

Ha shit, I meant this.

http://jonwye.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/w/f/wft_1.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/us-patent-office-cancels-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-trademark-registration-says-name-is-disparaging/2014/06/18/e7737bb8-f6ee-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html

closer and closer. just need snyder to die now.

hoist

petard

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god fucking dammit

you dared disparage hatcat

who are the hatcats of the world cup

brazil

hatcat sitting in chair

haha yess yessssssss

http://i.imgur.com/6fN8Zy0.png

http://i.imgur.com/SGZgOXz.png

http://i.imgur.com/GRI38xE.png

http://i.imgur.com/aBId0un.png

A little bit of Lois in my life
A little bit of Sheila by my side
A little bit of Beverly is all I need
A little bit of Tina is what I see

®edskins ticketholders should cancel their tickets until the government gets out of this..... I mean, to be fair, that's some real sorta "I don't want socialized medicine, just medicare" kinda arguing happening there.

This is getting ridiculous! Time was us white folk could say what we wanted about any minority and if they gave us a sideeye, we gave em a whoopin!

the wahhhhmbulances will be full today

"First, they came for our wahhhhmbulances. Tomorrow, they'll want our wahhhhhhooooomubulances!"

"2-4-6-8, who can we appropriate?"

speaking of potatoes

crosspost to rolling "Is This Racist?" thread, Great Real Names and Yo

new logo unveiled

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqca24bCEAAz1UT.jpg

Cooley: Chiefs and spell it wrong. Put the i before the e . . . No, I think if, God forbid, they were forced to change the name, they should just change it to the Smurfs. Something just out there. And then make the Smurf a little Indian Smurf, a red Smurf.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/06/19/chris-cooley-ridicules-name-change-effort-says-hes-now-protesting-the-chargers

such a gross franchise. the nfl just feels so worthless sometimes on a whole.

Dude must be sensitive, having a racial slur for a last name and all

I've never really cared about a teams name. I grew up loving the Bears. Pretty boring name. Saints,, Giants, Packers? These are dumb names. Fans of the hatcat name should be introduced to people with real problems. Being a stubborn idiot here is really dumb.

otm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-patent-office-goes-out-of-bounds-in-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-trademark-case/2014/06/20/e0001ee8-f7bd-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html

"The patent office opinion also seems to leave the future of trademarks largely dependent on whether groups file challenges. Currently trademarked slogans such as “Uppity Negro” and “You Can’t Make A Housewife Out Of A Whore” could lose their protections, despite the social and political meaning they hold for their creators."

wut

I am very curious about the political meaning of "You Can;t Make A Housewife Out Of A Whore" but I'll be damned if I'm gonna google that at work

it was Kurupt's senatorial campaign slogan iirc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bq7aVJBCUAA_L2L.png

hooooly shit at that first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a17uLh6N3zQ

http://gawker.com/the-washington-reagans-is-a-great-idea-1595876987

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10489806_10152545686514309_3349545505783707440_n.jpg

hahahaha

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/redsk1ns

change the 1 to an i ;)

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/07/07/wanted-man-is-arrested-after-police-see-his-photo-in-your-opinion-column/

http://jimromenesko.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/close.jpg

well played snyder

everyone's opinion is so fucking terrible

it truly is one terrible opinion that they all share. I guess that's why it isn't called "your opinions"

yeah the uniformity of opinion there is something else, you can see the finger on the scale

the many faces of bloomsburg
white and disabled
white and unemployed
white college student
black college student
white "cook"
white retiree
white retiree
white retiree

lol at that guy but tbh his take has merit

i did one of those man in the street things for the local paper years ago, they asked me 'how do you beat the heat?' and i responded 'get mourning to foul out', i was quite pleased w/ myself.

haha nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0Dm2HgnJg

aw you beat me to it

I stole it from noted football guru Ned Raggett.

"sex is great" *zooms out to reveal Don next to him licking his lips*

"Ernest" Byner killing it with that look.

The Washington Times and the Washington R******s announced a unique partnership that will make the newspaper a content and marketing partner of the team.

Under the partnership, the R******s and the Times will collaborate on unique content offerings throughout the year designed to provide http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG fans with compelling, timely and unique coverage.

a fitting match

Figures that they would reach out to a junk newspaper considering how many others won't even use the team's name in print anymore.

There's a William Least Heat Moon joke in here somewhere, but I don't think I'm going to be the one to successfully tell it.

http://i.imgur.com/3txJZXm.gif

lol that site is pathetic

http://deadspin.com/how-dan-snyder-bought-off-the-d-c-media-1616238720

facing hard-hitting questions from chris cooley

http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/08/05/dan-snyder-defends-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-name

"You know, it’s sort of fun to talk about the name of our football team, because it gets some attention for some of the people that write it, that need clicks, or what have you. But reality is, no one ever talks about what’s going on on reservations, the fact that they have such high unemployment rates, health care issues, education issues, environmental issues, lack of water, lack of electricity.

"No one wants to talk about that stuff, because it’s not cocktail, chit-chat-talk, it’s a real-life need, real-life issues. And I think they don’t want to focus on that, and I dedicated an effort to do that."

imadedicateaneffort

"All those Resdkins need our help and the cocktail elite aren't doing their part."

http://www.cleveland.com/interact/2014/08/ohio_gubernatorial_candidates.html#incart_river

Manziel Gestures To R*dskins

As the R*dskins made things difficult for Browns QBs, Johnny Manziel let his frustration show with an obscene gesture to the opposing sideline.
Story »ManzielVideo Big deal? »Skins hold on »

i just love how the fuckers at ESPN are playing up the controversy over one dude flipping the bird and still r-skinning it all over their site.

mike carey avoided reffing r*dskins games for eight years because of the name

good job mike. i sympathize with why he didn't feel he could be more public about this at the time but i am glad he has decided to talk about it now.

class act

otm

contrast with mike ditka who also had things to say today about this :(

ehh his politics have been dim-witted for decades. amused that he thought of running for office once.

also mike carey is 65 years old wtf

Yeah remember Ditka said he regretted not running against Obama on the state because it would prevented Obama from being president

After watching the A Football Life about Ditka it became clear to me that he wasn't even a good football coach.

Like, the main thing he provided the Bears was attitude. The players seemed to openly hate him.

Yeah, the Cult of Ditka is a Chicago homer thing that's only spread around the rest of the country because the NFL plays favorites.

in terms of putting out a shorthand image of chicago for the rest of the country to judge us on, ditka was the worst thing that happened to the city since the democratic national convention of '68.

at least most of the music in 'the blues brothers' was dece, despite it leading to a million crappy cover bands and hearing its songs piped through multiple times at every sporting event in the city for the next 30+ years (still ongoing afaik.)

I met Ditka once when i was in HS (St. Rita class of '88) and he was a fucking asshole.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/sarah-palin-backs-mike-ditka-in-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-name-controversy-173505823.html

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/25/25028/original/700.hq.jpg%3F1771

That is unbelievable

NB the syndicate name

I love that the mascot looks like the whitest guy imaginable.

Change the name. This is stupid. Once palin weighs in you know everybody against it is right

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bwxq7ONIAAA0UMn.jpg

makes u think

when snyder inevitably goes looking for a brand new stadium, whoever offers to pay for the building should require a name change to go along w/ it

haha Bill OTM

Sarah Palin may be the only person for whom the Stopped Clock Rule should never apply

when snyder inevitably goes looking for a brand new stadium, whoever offers to pay for the building should require a name change to go along w/ it

― Mordy, Friday, September 5, 2014 10:34 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If Snyder somehow cons a municipality into funding a stadium for him even though his current one (admittedly, by all reports, a piece of shit)is only like 15 years old, then we will know that this world is totally fucked.

As much as I hate the Patriots, i give them credit for building their own stadium with no public money. The Vikings, on the other hand, just absolutely fleeced the state.

this world is totally fucked

Washington owner Snyder confirms NFL stadiums now obsolete the minute you take the shrink-wrap off

jfc

that guy makes me want to root for the league to come crashing down

he makes me want to root for the end times

^ Raiders fan. same thing.

;_;

The fleecing of the public to pay for stadiums that the vast majority of taxpayers cant afford to go to is just mind-blowing. I cant believe every time a team tries to hijack a city to get taxpayer money to build a stadium it works. If anybody has the time, read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's ongoing series about the new Braves stadium. It's nauseating (the deal for the new stadium, not the AJC whose reporting on this issue is fantastic).

yeah. and nfl stadiums are in use 10 days (one or two more, for the fortunate) a year, two of which are pre-season games designed mainly to fleece season ticket holders

I can really only speak for the georgia dome (which is also being replaced) but it gets used quite a bit: college games, concerts, truck shows, etc. Im actually going to be one of the 5000 people (out of 70k capacity) there tomorrow for the Georgia State-New Mexico State game cuz a buddy of mine is an assistant for NMS.

And the new falcons stadium will be used for the new MLS team. That being said, its a fucking obscene waste of money. The Dome is perfectly fine.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) announced Tuesday that she will introduce legislation to eliminate the NFL's tax-exempt status because of its refusal to address the name of the Washington Hatcats.

It seems insane to me that the NFL even has tax-exempt status.

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/5a50a146bd402b6f117edaec91cbabd4/tumblr_nfny95ANRD1qbrzxso1_1280.jpg

i have friends who still refer to a certain pancake place as 'wuerffel house'

How the Hatcats Got Their Name, a $35 paperback children's book

amazing

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2014-12-11/nfl-http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG-poem-brian-mitchell-poor-wretched-awful-inexcusable-despicable-comcast-sportsnet

http://tinyurl.com/pf7thoh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B68AvmQIAAArVyg.jpg

i'm embarrassed that i never made that connection before

This is pretty basic stuff

should of gone with 'illusion' imo

just a kind hearted tip of the scalp

I always appreciate the little code words that confirm to me that they aren't serious and are completely racist.

http://deadspin.com/how-dan-snyder-helped-get-an-enemy-reporter-promoted-ri-1693989144

holy f that is amazing.

What makes the idea of the referral doubly strange is that Snyder plainly despised La Canfora. Everybody at http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG Park knew about this. Prospective http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG civilian employees were routinely asked during the interview process about their views on his coverage of the team. And if they gave the right answer and got a job, they were reminded of the boss's obsession with the reporter during staff brainstorming sessions that he called to solve The Jason La Canfora Problem.

hey our cat is dead

He lives on here?

Hatcats GM says Bryce Harper would play safety over cornerback because 'he's a white guy'

No, every person on Earth did not read about the 2014 Hatcats training camp

lol

Wife of Hatcats GM apologizes for accusing ESPN reporter of sleeping with GM, comments Hatcats PR denied

what an organization

it's unreal what a shitshow on every level

In other news, Scott McCloughan is a guy who "conquered his alcoholism" and yet still drinks beer like daily? I don't think that's how it's supposed to work, unless you're Dean Martin in Rio Bravo.

lol at Dean Martin

"congratulations on quitting whiskey Sheriff! we'll bring a keg of beer over to your office"

Hehe

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg--week-of-online-futility-continues-with-rg3-swipe--fan-disregard-151555671.html

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well shit

http://yhoo.it/1JUhvK1

much obliged

i wonder why rg3 is so bad and hated. he doesn't seem that bad?

http://iaf.tv/2015/11/04/reformed-whores-washington-redskins/

http://deadspin.com/blunder-reveals-washington-nfl-team-runs-supposed-fan-a-1747811424

give it up you despicable motherfuckers

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/magazine/roger-goodells-unstoppable-football-machine.html

I asked him what he thought of having his team featured last summer on the HBO reality show ‘‘Hard Knocks,’’ about life at an N.F.L. training camp. He said it was a net plus, although he was distraught over how much swearing there was and joked that Coach Bill O’Brien should introduce a cuss jar. I asked McNair if he was as sensitive to other offensive language, specifically the N.F.L. team in the nation’s capital’s being named the Redsk1ns. McNair told me that he grew up in western North Carolina, around many Cherokee Indians. ‘‘Everybody respected their courage,’’ McNair told me of the Indians. ‘‘They might not have respected the way they held their whiskey, but. . . .’’ He laughed. ‘‘We respected their courage. They’re very brave people.’’

cool guy

"Get it... 'brave' people?" McNair then held two fingers behind his head to symbolize a feather headdress and proceeded to dance in a small circle while loudly whooping before finally collapsing to the ground in a fit of giggles. "I kid, I kid. But I really do love those goddamn injuns."

You're wondering, even for the NYT, how does somebody get to be such a front-running fairweather sycophant that they write this fawning spooge, but he helps you out with his little autobiographical sprinkles. "I am a Patriots fan... I live in Washington and usually write about politics..."

He called Goodell ‘‘a football politician, which is his perfect job’’ — someone who has brilliantly nurtured a system that grows the pie, expands to Europe and possibly Latin America and gains eyeballs trained on the ever-present Shield. The Shield is financial and cultural gold, proof that the system is working — at least for the Membership.

This fucking trashcan of a sport can't possibly die fast enough

ROGER GOODELL
1959-2031
"HE GREW THE PIE"

The Washington r******s failed to sign quarterback Kirk Cousins to a long-term deal, setting the stage for his possible departure next offseason.

Team president Bruce Allen said in a statement that Cousins was "obviously important to our team and fans" and detailed the team's offer made to the quarterback. He also talked about the decision in a video posted on the team's website but referred to Cousins on five occasions as "Kurt" instead of Kirk.

Asked about Allen's pronunciation of Cousins' first name, a team spokesman said it sounded that way because of the r******s president's accent.

classic r******s

rk's are pronounced as rt's round here

lemme tell ya dirts bentley did NOT enjoy his time in DC.

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLaLuHoWkAEQsjm.jpg

https://deadspin.com/amazing-online-hoax-welcomes-washington-redhawks-to-t-1821260116

No more savage tropes that uphold colonialism and imperialism. #goredhawks #notyourmascot pic.twitter.com/j6Lll95vYW

— Dani (@xodanix3) December 13, 2017

The Redskins will honor the 1987 replacement players with Super Bowl rings in a ceremony next Tuesday, team announces.

— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) June 5, 2018

lol

Someone's not happy about the new guy wearing 26. https://t.co/2LljIC8q1U

— Barry Svrluga (@barrysvrluga) August 21, 2018

https://deadspin.com/even-beer-vendors-have-turned-on-the-skins-1829140957

alex smith eastern motors ads where washington players tell him about go go music and mambo sauce

don't know what to think about this really

Eastern Motors Jingle Ovechkin Version #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/cwPiqnZNV1

— Ovi Dancing To (@OviDancing) June 24, 2018

https://deadspin.com/rip-sean-taylor-now-buy-this-crappy-doll-from-dan-sny-1830682615

Things I love about the football team’s statement:

1. The quote is attributed to no one.
2. They did not wish Gruden well and thank him for his service. pic.twitter.com/86e36qadh0

— Barry Svrluga (@barrysvrluga) October 7, 2019

*dusts off hands* welp, racism solved

Redskins to remove George Preston Marshall’s name from all team material https://t.co/cAQHvFt6yx

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2020

i have an additional suggestion...

FedEx on Thursday became the first major corporate backer of the Washington Redskins to call on the team to change its name, the most significant development yet amid mounting financial and political pressure on team owner Daniel Snyder in the long-running controversy.

In a one-sentence statement issued Thursday afternoon, Memphis-based FedEx said, “We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name.”

Even without elaboration from the company, the statement signals a dramatic pivot by one of the Redskins’ more loyal, long-standing corporate backers — a Fortune 100 company that for more than two decades has tied its brand to that of the team.

The company’s request comes less than a week after a group of more than 85 investment firms and shareholders representing $620 billion in assets called on FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo to sever ties with the team unless Snyder changes its name.

And it represents another shift in a battle in which the terrain has shifted from moral appeals to business and political tactics during a period in which the country is reexamining statues, monuments, symbols and corporate names and logos that some Americans have never questioned but others long have considered a source of offense, insult or pain.

If prominent Redskins sponsors feel sufficient pressure to dissociate from the team, Snyder’s bottom line would take a significant hit at the same time he faces political roadblocks in building a new stadium.

FedEx, which ranks 47th on the 2020 Fortune 500 list, holds the naming rights to the team’s existing stadium in Landover, Md., through 2026 under a 27-year, $205 million deal signed in November 1999. Moreover, the company’s CEO, Frederick W. Smith, is a minority investor in the team, believed to have a 10 percent share.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/02/fedex-redskins-name-change/

heyyyyyyyyy
https://sports.yahoo.com/after-investors-call-for-name-change-nike-appears-to-wipe-redskins-off-its-website-014246135.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/03/washington-redskins-launch-review-controversial-team-name/

The Washington Redskins said Friday they were beginning a thorough review of the team’s controversial nickname, a stunning step that came as a number of the team’s largest corporate sponsors called for a change. The decision followed years in which the franchise refused to even consider such a move.

The team offered few details of what the review will entail, but two people familiar with discussions between team owner Daniel Snyder, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other league officials that led to Friday’s announcement said the review is expected to result in a new team name and mascot.

“You know where this leads," one of the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “They’re working on that process [of changing the name]. It will end with a new name. Dan has been listening to different people over the last number of weeks.”

Asked whether a change was certain, the person said, “I don’t want to say 100 percent. It’s very likely headed in that direction.”

A second person with knowledge of the situation said: “It’s not a matter of if the name changes but when.”

it will be such an amazing surprise when the "review" determines that yes, it is in fact a racist team name that should have been changed many years ago

but the review will also find that the team holds no personal liability in the matter, having not been aware of the damage it caused until the review

FINALLY

Washington Redskins Change Their Name To The D.C. Redskins https://t.co/xeIvo1nWzH pic.twitter.com/DwKonNgfAX

— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 3, 2020

sad lol

lol

i can't believe it's actually happening

so if they get a non racist name but continue to be terrible & i can go see live NFL for $10/ticket.. i'm ok with this

the change will be announced with some kind of bullshit weasel wording about the “potential” for the old name to cause offence

Daria the “continue to be terrible” part is p much assured under current mgmt so you are good to go

The NFL is so funny. Jamming the slur into the official statement as many times as possible out of spite, somehow yoking the troops into it all, leveraging everything for maximum public resource extraction. Just absolutely a golf shirt boiled in Budweiser where a brain should be. pic.twitter.com/1eI0OsyIFt

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) July 3, 2020

i would be surprised if daniel snyder were particularly racist or honestly gave a fuck about minorities either way; he's just a guy who thinks he's entitled to a) making literally all the money possible, and b) never having anyone tell him what to do

i'd almost respect him more if he were a legit bigot

suggest Swamp Things

i would be surprised if daniel snyder were particularly racist or honestly gave a fuck about minorities either way; he's just a guy who thinks he's entitled to a) making literally all the money possible, and b) never having anyone tell him what to do

i'd almost respect him more if he were a legit bigot

wtf is this

Some big Walter Sobchak energy there

every suggestion i've seen for a new name has been shit. red wolves? sounds like a D3 school mascot

every team should just do what the raptors did and name themselves after a movie that's popular at the moment. so in this case i guess they should name themselves after trolls world tour or that movie where pete davidson is angry at his stepdad

I'm partial to 'the Washington Pussywillows' myself. It would be endearing.

nah hatcats is fine

^^^

DC FUCKNUGGETS

please leave dc out of this, the hatcats are a maryland team

washington, maryland?

the maryland chickens

they're not a maryland team they're at least 51% a virginia team

every suggestion i've seen for a new name has been shit. red wolves? sounds like a D3 school mascot

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, July 12, 2020 1:47 PM bookmarkflaglink

Haha, where did you see this? Because the Arkansas State Indians changed their name to the Arkansas State Red Wolves about 15 years ago.

Former and Current Redskins Endorse ‘Red Wolves’ for Team’s New Name

I’d want to come back to Washington for one day and retire a Red Wolf

GOD what a name! S/o the Washington fans pushing for this to happen 🐺 pic.twitter.com/7Cc2GhRg0z

— Will Compton (@_willcompton) July 10, 2020

all NFL teams should have taglines taken from sassy facebook memes

the Virginia Slims

please leave dc out of this, the hatcats are a maryland team

they're already gearing up for (another) new stadium by 2027 but in this political and economic climate i don't see any municipalities ponying up the kind of money they'll want. at least i hope not

Redskins

Does it still work?

:(

suggest Swamp Things

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, July 4, 2020 6:33 AM (one week ago)

Should definitely be wetland-themed

Red Rockets

one of the proposed names from when they stupidly renamed the bullets was the washington seadogs. so, seadogs.

can we get clinton portis to rename the team

'Senators' wd denote the deserved level of respect

Man there's something weird going on about that Red Wolves stuff.

And uh, why are THE HOGS in the running too?

PAST 50%
🐺#HTTRedwolves pic.twitter.com/pl1gwiduwS

— 🍄🤘🍄 (@CerberusDude) July 10, 2020

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/A1L1jhweWCZi0ECJFq9vDJhxTxw=/1400x1400/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/15293315/71770108.jpg.jpg

thought that said HOGFEFE for a moment

pplains, I wasn't sure if you were asking "why" because you didn't know about the Hogs, or because you thought it was a terrible name.

pigskins makes sense to me, they still get to be the 'skins' and it fits with the hogs thing.

red wolves sounds like the name of a lacrosse team, very bad.

Oh right. Those hogs.

Lots of chatter about names that I associate with the hometown teams, that's all. Maybe they can be the Washington Travelers? (HTTT?)

https://i.imgur.com/myWHyrE.png

https://i.imgur.com/uwyq61c.jpg

Also keep in mind that

When Arkansas State was changing its name from the Indians, there was a lobby for the "Engines", because, you know, Jonesboro is such a train town and has the locomotive engines and whatnot.

And everyone else went Riiiight, that's very clever of you.

― pplains, Friday, November 9, 2012 8:08 PM

never forget

http://blog.chron.com/askacat/files/legacy/hatcat.JPG

red pandas tho

ok lol

Feinstein: “The team’s new name should be ‘Justice.’ “ https://t.co/RU5SHj2th6

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) July 14, 2020

as in No Justice, No Peace

or as in the current 2020 Department of Justice

Washington Cronies

the rest of that column is actually fine, but the kicker . . . i guess if you write about sports long enough, everyone turns into rick reilly

Redclots

If they want to be "The Washington Justice", they will need to appear on the Federalist Society list of candidates and get 51 votes in the Senate.

i think the Washington Justice should have a practice scrimmage against the GOP softball team

You all aren't ready for these new teams. Catch up on #Brockmire at https://t.co/zHCklMewHr. pic.twitter.com/7paLanZJhg

— Brockmire (@BrockmireIFC) April 10, 2020

so uh
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/07/16/football-world-waits-for-supposed-washington-post-story-on-washington-team/

lol wut

Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the “Washington Football Team”, pending adoption of a new name, sources tell ESPN.

This is not a final renaming and rebranding for team; this is the name it wants to use until pending adoption of a new name in the future. pic.twitter.com/sBs0Uo0ICm

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 23, 2020

actually i support them keeping this forever

I have been advocating for "Washington Team (of) Football," because it can be abbreviated WTF.

thats a really strong logo/brand honestly

this is the best possible outcome I love it

I need them to adopt the rap from Wildcats as their theme song immediately

https://youtu.be/1CfnKEYAbyo

The popular song from the movie

how about Washington rename themselves to being relegated to the arena league

Kind of thinking has worked out ok for the Oakland Athletics!

Just waking back up from my pregame nap to see about The Washington Football team??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Is that real?? No way! Oh man they had a thorough intense long board meeting about that one huh. 🥴🤦🏾‍♂️

— LeBron James (@KingJames) July 23, 2020

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/worstownerever2.jpg.bmp

was looking at old washington football team content and this happened TEN years ago

clearly not knicks fans

Knicks fans are in a special wing of the Smithsonian until the end of 2021

and on showtime on Tuesdays and Sundays

this is tremendous.

is this some kind of hamfisted attempt to troll people by Snyder? not really working.

now i want the seahawks to complain about infringement

hopefully this means the fight song lyrics will be changed to “hail to the football”

Were they forced to rename the bullets or did it just happen? I remember it happened seemingly over night.

it was a response to the assassination of yitzchak rabin, of all things

no one remembers because on the night the bullets changed their name, the entire world ended, just as so many people had warned

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/ever-wonder-why-name-change-bullets-wizards

"My friend was shot in the back by bullets,” Pollin said. “The name ‘Bullets’ is no longer appropriate for a sports team.”

tbf if they went back to being the bullets, but like powerpoint list bullets, it would be a perfectly appropriate team name for the city and region to get behind

Washington PowerPoints

wow, i never heard that story about how the rabin assassination triggered the bullets name change

The Washington Executive Summaries

the wikipedia for the wizards makes a really weird claim that rabin's assassin "got the idea when he watched the Bullets play a basketball game and heard the team name and suddenly snapped.[15]" the source is a link to a very thorough article about the name change that doesn't mention anything about that, and i can't find a single other thing making that claim.

washington wizards is the worst name in pro sports

The Washington Executive Summaries

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, July 23, 2020 9:44 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol. workable shortening to "the execs"

say that ten times fast

https://i.imgur.com/yu1exl1.gif

The Washington Crawfish Son

The DC C-Notes

they really have a ton of good options

iirc abe pollin built dc's whatever-it's-now-called-hoops-and-hockey arena on his own without* public money, so he was cool with me

(* i'm sure there were easements and transport/metro concessions made, but relatively speaking. dude was not snyder)

the wikipedia for the wizards makes a really weird claim that rabin's assassin "got the idea when he watched the Bullets play a basketball game and heard the team name and suddenly snapped.[15]" the source is a link to a very thorough article about the name change that doesn't mention anything about that, and i can't find a single other thing making that claim.

washington wizards is the worst name in pro sports

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'd be really shocked if Orthodox Israeli Yigal Amir watched NBA hoops

Reggie Jackson did it

The Washington Lanyards

YES

that's my favorite

that's so good

I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.

Most of the country would wonder why they decided to name themselves after a one-hit wonder 80s band from California.

excuse me, you mean three-hit wonder 80s band (four if you're being generous)

OK fine but I bet you there’s only one most people can still remember today

i'd say for the whippersnappers today, they're more likely to associate "go go" with either dancing or inspector gadget than the new wave band or chuck brown's scene

ha, apparently I wasn’t the first one to think of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_City_Go-Go

In December 2017, the Washington Wizards unveiled the Capital City Go-Go's name and released their logo. The team's name alludes to the go-go music genre that started in the mid-1960s to late 1970s local to Washington, D.C.

Why are we talking about whippersnappers when as far as I can tell, that team's fanbase is largely made up of portly white grandpas in the suburbs?

Washington Supremacists

The Washington Hamiltons

seriously, it's time to make a hard push for Hatcats

Washington Generals

I’m digging the helmet logo being replaced with uni number.

I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, July 24, 2020 11:19 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the missing thing is that if you took a map of the dc/md/va and marked the regions where washington football team fans live and then mark the regions where go-go music is performed and listened to there would be zero overlap

the washington washingtons

The DC Statehoods

The DC Marvels

The DC Avengers

The DC Hulks
The DC Spidermen
The DC Mickey Mice

You can stop

it's rumored that they have or are considering 'sentinels' so

ick

Washington Amazing Randys

AC/DC

the washington warblers
the DC Compact Disks
the capitol records

*discs

The Washington Toshingwons

Washington Corrupt Bargains

Hopefully they learn something from the other Washington team with a new name

https://www.theringer.com/2020/7/23/21336242/seattle-kraken-nhl-team-name

i don't care about hockey but that is 100% solid branding

Maryland Myrmidons

The Myrmidons of Greek myth were known for their loyalty to their leaders, so that in pre-industrial Europe the word "myrmidon" carried many of the same connotations that "robot" does today. "Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, July 24, 2020 11:19 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the missing thing is that if you took a map of the dc/md/va and marked the regions where washington football team fans live and then mark the regions where go-go music is performed and listened to there would be zero overlap

point is the average football fan lives 30-50 miles from DC and looks like this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEeXxjTXoAASsNv.jpg

average nats fan lives in chevy chase and looks like this

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5bad586b3f8e152ccafcac98/master/pass/Current-KavanaughTantrum.jpg

it's very odd to me how people seem to think no people of color watch football when a majority of all football players are people of color

I was thinking this

just going off of experience as someone whose spent my entire life living within a 30 mile radius of DC. obviously the washington team has fans of color but football isn't big in the city itself

football fans are still pretty white though

Of course most fans will be white, whites compromise about 76% of the population.

9% of viewers being Black means a fuckton of viewers are Black

ok i regret posting that because i was only ever making a flippant generalization that the football team has never been a big part of DC metro culture like the wizards or even the nats are, they belong to maryland and virginia. i've met more WFT fans from baltimore (from the post-colts pre-ravens era) than i have from DC city proper. i spent six years in PG county (the home of go-go music AND... fedex field) and i still met surprisingly few fans who were native to the county. the idea of snyder using something like go-go to brand his team just strikes me as cheap. of course chuck brown was supposedly a big sk*ns fan so what do i know.

lived in silver spring now for 5 or 6 years and i don't think i've seen a single bumper sticker in that time. might be a different story if the team didn't suck

Uh they put the stadium in the richest black county in the country for a reason.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sweaty-betty-film-review-854659

Good movie

I see http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg-crap-festooned cars in DC proper on a regular basis. Almost always driven by black people (if I can see the driver).

I feel like I see more cars with Capitals and Nationals crap, though. Probably has something to do with not sucking.

Also never forget the local Cowboys fandom. Note the stats in this City Paper piece on black residents’ affinity for the local team, though: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13042042/why-are-there-so-many-cowboys-fans-in-dc

Tanya Snyder says 8 final names remain for Washington:
Red Hogs, Defenders, Armada, Presidents, Brigade, Commanders, Red Wolves and Washington Football Team.
(via @AdamSchefter podcast)

— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) September 7, 2021

^Crap selection is indicative of a crap front office. I hope they just stick with 'Washington Football Team', an impossible choice for the fans to yell during tense moments on the field. GO, FOOTBALL TEAM!!

hogs (without red) would actually be decent

the rest are only differentiated by the level of pandering to the Troops

the Washington Christian Nationalists!

red hogs is upsetting

lol presidents is amazing i need everyone to pray for this name

presidents is very John Carpenter/Escape From
NY and i completely support it

presidents is the only one of those that's better than washington football team

red wolves is the most cowardly pick, both bland and not fully distancing themselves from the original name, so it'll be the one

Washington Football Team is by far the best

washington racist football team would be better

washington r******s
washington raacists

armada is pretty funny because it doesn't seem like a particularly american thing? the spanish armada, sure, the english armada. yep. but when you start searching for united states armada or american armada or washington armada, you start getting a lot of nissan ads and ski manufacturer stuff

Yeah Armada should be playing Tottenham Hotspur or some shit

Here are a few i came up with that follow the r******s formula:

The Washington Rainbows
The Washington Raviolis
The Washington Realists
The Washington Regattas

They're all good but Raviolis is my favorite

Rednecks, surely

Rights

Redheads is also nice.

Redscares

Red Snappers

Red Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk

Washington Radishes

Haha redheads would be so awesome

washington residents

Red Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk

I sincerely like residents

just . . . astonishing (from defector + wapo)

The funniest insight into Snyder’s warped brain comes from the rundown of his relentless pursuit of petty feuds with the many enemies he’s come to suspect of dishing gossip to journalists, and his attorneys’ tenuous but often successful legal maneuvering to gain access to the private communications of those enemies. Most prominent among that group is former WFT president Bruce Allen, who Snyder fired in December 2019 following a 3–13 regular season. Snyder became convinced that Allen was connected to the big trumped-up global conspiracy business, and his lawyers insisted they had “rock-solid” evidence of this whole deal, but it turns out what really knotted up Snyder’s undies may have been that Allen didn’t congratulate him for hiring head coach Ron Rivera two years ago:

In January 2020, after the news conference announcing Rivera’s hire, according to these people, Snyder learned that Allen had sent a congratulatory text to Rivera. Snyder was insulted, these people said, that he didn’t receive a similar text from Allen, whom Snyder had fired a few weeks before.

This was significant enough of a sticking point between the two men that Snyder attempted to use the pandemic and the threat of withholding money contractually owed to Allen as leverage, in order to force his former subordinate to send along a nice text message. Hilariously, even this failed to secure the desired congratulations:

Later that year, the team, citing the pandemic, attempted to get out of paying Allen all of the money he was owed under his contract. Allen fought back, and Snyder agreed to pay his full salary. But in a message sent to Allen’s lawyers over settlement terms, one of Snyder’s lawyers included a condition that Allen wouldn’t agree to meet, according to text messages reviewed by The Post.

“In addition, I understand that Mr. Allen has agreed to send a text message to Mr. Snyder stating, ‘Congrats on the hire,’” Snyder’s attorney wrote in July 2020, seven months after Snyder hired Rivera. Allen’s lawyers resolved the pay dispute, but he never sent this text, according to a person with knowledge of the case.

lmao what a fucking baby my god

apparently it’s commanders

let’s hope everyone just calls them the commies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM

I still say The Washington Raviolis is a really good name for a football team.

Washington Commander Salamanders

Washington Football Team was such a great name R.I.P.

yeah I loved seeing shit like "@ Football Team" on the schedule

new name sucks, didn't like "Guardians" for Cleveland either but at least that one kind of sounds like "Indians" which I think is important when you change a name like this. therefore Washington should've gone with "Pigskins"

xxp: oh, I see that joek has been all over Twitter for hours now. whoops.

washington charmanders

in my heart i know they are just hatcats

they shouldve done it by fan poll and ended up with football mcfootface

washington command+option+delete

Washington masturbártelo team

Goin' Commando since 2022

That is a weak-ass name

It's so bad. Like they're gonna command much of anything.

shoulda named themselves the Washington ELITES yuk yuk

Washington Swamp Things ffs

Washington Weasels

Washington Wizards

nice

It's a good day to re-read this David Brooks NYTMag profile of Dan Snyder from 1999 which portrays Snyder as a breath of fresh air in stuffy DC; concludes "his influence on the Redskins has been unambiguously positive"; & predicts a Super Bowl w/i 5 years. https://t.co/Wrc3x0MTRB

— Jason Zengerle (@zengerle) February 2, 2022

The Hatecats

people are definitely going to call them the commies lol

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/vintage/img/g/hJEAAOSwxjRgtU9m/s-l1600/Vintage-COMMANDER-SALAMANDER-Pin-Button-1980-s-DC-.jpg

maybe they let ian svnonius name the team after all

and i know the commander salamander ref was already covered but man.. i miss a lot of places from that era of dc

local girls softball team is the Troubadours which i thought was an alltime dumb name for a sports team

this commander thing though might be the new winner

so stupid.

washington officers
washington chairpersons
washington adjutants

washington adjutants

The adjutant is an awesome bird and offers great mascot/logo possibilities

Snyder is described as a vulgar, grasping, uppity yuppie from hell -- a cut-rate George Steinbrenner or a Trump wannabe.

what a stupid stupid article

The Washington Importnat Guys

Was time to resurrect washington bullets name so we could sing sandinista in mortified unfunny irony, right?

Washington EDH

The Washington Hardcocks

The Washington Worshers

^^^this!

The Washington Posts

The Washington Western Pennsylvanians

(based on the demographics of my coworkers)

Washington Sex Scandals

The Washington Bubbles

senators is one of the funniest names for a team, a classic, they shoulve just gone with that

local girls softball team is the Troubadours which i thought was an alltime dumb name for a sports team

aww I kinda like it

"Senators" is a solid name too

idk the best team names are non-threatening and dumb. the worst ones are the ones that try to appear macho. animals + alliteration are always good - "Seattle Seahawks" is one of the best. idk if "Commanders" is worse than Browns, Bills, or Patriots, but it does have a very Arena Football feel to it, if I were an announcer I'd struggle to say it

also lmao that this is dropping right as the NFL is embroiled in another racism scandal

browns is great cmon

and the bills! buffalo bill! it’s brilliant

like naming your team the oakland annies or something

lol

Chicago Sitting Bulls

the boston stranglers

there should be a football team called The Ice

like Miami has The Heat

it is weird there isn't a hockey team called the ice

The Miami Floe

On a Bills tip they should've gone with the Washington Irvings

the georges

Commanders has a NJ Generals vibe. dbag owner should sell to you know, to show how that shit is really done. It would be nice.

lol okay

The blue dot is about 2 blocks from the US Capitol. The red dot is Dumfries VA, where @john_keim reports the Commanders have spent $100M on new land for a possible stadium. pic.twitter.com/RmoLTwgLEg

— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) May 23, 2022

Works for me.

I would rather them move to NFL Europe.

I'm aware the league doesn't exist anymore.

still want it to happen.

The Washington Ombudsmen.

putting a stadium in dumfries (or even woodbridge) would create astounding traffic jams

assuming that anyone can afford what they'll charge for licenses/tix

Yeah but traffic around dc is a real piece of cake, it’s always fun to drive

Yeah that’s nuts I95 south of DC is a parking lot even on weekends, although maybe they could put a VRE station at the stadium.

The Washington Roadblocks

maybe they could put a VRE station at the stadium

won't happen unless snyder gets a cut that would make up for lost parking revenue. and people will still drive because they wanna tailgate

I have a feeling the Governor is just gonna shovel money to Snyder anyway might as well get a train station out of the deal.

The Washington Roadblocks

The Washington Curiosity Slowdown

putting a stadium in dumfries (or even woodbridge) would create astounding traffic jams

Lol at "create."

At minimum, it would exacerbate the existing ones.

Which could be - in the long term - a good thing. At this point I do not give a fuck. Make the whole enterprise utterly untenable. Teach the fan base an expensive and unpleasant lesson. Make it suck, for everyone forever. Maybe then people will rethink how it could be done differently.

oh narrator voice where art thou

Do they really need a fxxxing new stadium?

Fish gotta swim
Birds gotta fly
Billionaires gotta swindle
Cancers gotta multiply

this is a pretty remarkable report, produced by one of the NFL's partners no less, discussing how daniel snyder is one of the truly preeminent assholes in america

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34778123/washington-commanders-owner-dan-snyder-claims-dirt-nfl-owners-roger-goodell

The whole thing is pretty curious considering how the whole Gruden thing happened and the leak that Sheffter was pretty much on speed dial with Allen and the league office as a mouthpiece. Add in the whole debacle in Mississippi with Favre and really the whole mafia line is probably not far from the truth.

NFL world is just a microcosm of the sleazy world of American corporate and political governance.

American hero: steals from the poor to give to the rich
American villain: kneels during some idiot song

dan snyder seems nice

i doubt that any NFL owner has the moral standing to call for daniel snyder's ouster, but god knows jim irsay doesn't

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10052990-commanders-fan-says-14k-check-from-5050-raffle-bounced-team-cites-bank-error.amp.html

This is literally a bit from the Will Ferrell movie Semi Pro

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10052990-commanders-fan-says-14k-check-from-5050-raffle-bounced-team-cites-bank-error.amp.html

LOL I remember that bit from the movie.

that and the mugs with Washington state emblazoned on them rather than DC = Washington is Spinal Tap atm

Haha I'll have to Google the mugs

"Don't worry Jackie, the beer company will pay for it."

"they're not even a sponsor, I just thought it sounded professional."

i'm imagining Dan Snyder telling this guy to ask for the "big check department" at his bank

haha that movie is the underrated of the ferrell era imo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FctRmj0XEAUI67U?format=jpg&name=900x900

Hahaha amazing

This was an interesting segment. I never knew about the whole thing with trying to get Papa John to go after Goodell thing. Kinda interesting considering what happened to him and considering Kraft got busted and was able to walk away from getting busted on camera at a rub and tug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99mvCytwf_8

Some sleazy mfers, that is for sure.

The @Commanders unveil their new mascot 'Major Tuddy' 🐷 pic.twitter.com/HS0vYKIHJ3

— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 1, 2023

i like how the commanders are incorporating real war imagery like fiery explosions in their public relations. soon there will be orphans in the background, crying and holding the football

snyder planting landmines all over the field

football men that i command, let me tell you - this is not a game. this is a war. this is not a playing field. this is a battlefield. we will fight to the death for every single yard, and we may not return home. we might die out there as heroes who will never be forgotten. they'll make statues of you, those of you who are willing to sacrifice, at least. we will take the fight to the enemy and punish them. then i will run for senate

you'd think a war pig would be a bit on the nose but no

🫡

After 24 years, 27 starting quarterbacks, and two playoff wins, the Dan Snyder era is mercifully over.

"Major Tuddy"? WTF?

that's what she said

Digging deeper into Sam Howell’s debut in the new offensive system.

“I think my comfortability showed tonight.”https://t.co/C5sMcpYpYS

— Sam Fortier (@Sam4TR) August 12, 2023

i would rather the washington football club *didn't* extract $1B+ in public money from the district of columbia to build a new stadium on the former RFK site

yet nor does it seem appropriate that the president of the united states demand that the team be called the washington n____s lest he shut the stadium deal down

after all, hatcats is right there