Washington NFL team to use 'Washington Football Team' for 2020 season

ESPN ^ | July 23, 2020 | Adam Schefter

[EdnaMode]

Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the "Washington Football Team" pending the adoption of a new name, the franchise announced.

This is not a final renaming and rebranding for the team; this is the name it wants to use until the adoption of a new name at some point.

The team will continue the process of retiring the former name and hopes to be entirely rid of it on physical and digital spaces in the next 50 days, by the Sept. 13 regular-season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Little known fact: “Yankees” is only a nickname. The team’s official name is simply, “New York Baseball Club.”

They might want to look into changing that.

For many years the Pittsburgh Pirates were also officially the "Pittsburgh Baseball Club". Pirates was a nickname that was coined in the press after they were accused of "piracy" for signing Louis Bierbauer away from the Phillies in 1892. No one ever bothered to incorporate under the name Pittsburgh Pirates.

Then in the early 90's when the World Wide Web was becoming a thing an enterprising Pittsburgh bar owner went out and registered the domain "pittsburghpirates.com". He then attempted to extort a king's ransom from the team in order to have them buy it back. (the Bucs' first website was actually pirateball.com).

Litigation ensued, but there was a problem in that the plaintiff was officially the Pittsburgh Baseball Club and not the Pirates. This dragged on for several years. Eventually they managed to get control of the domain (I think after Federal laws were changed to prevent this sort of thing).

Shortly afterwards the team reincorporated as Pittsburgh Pirates, Inc.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

How about, “Hail to the Foreskins,” and “Fight for old VD?”

5.56mm

[xp38]

[yesthatjallen]

Warpath?

I don't believe we can use the w-word anymore.

[Tommy Revolts]

That's a winner. How ingenious. /s

Frickin idiots!

[treetopsandroofs]

No, we’d offend the illegal aliens in detention centers who play soccer and call it football.

FYI, I don’t give an obama about either sport.

You can bet kneeling will be real popular at high school sports when they reopen.

[Impala64ssa]

How about calling them “the team formerly known as the Redskins”?

[Red Badger]

Real life is turning into IDIOCRACY with each new day!..................

[treetopsandroofs]

“How about, “Hail to the Foreskins,” and “Fight for old VD?””

Fight, fight fight!

Tom Lehrer’s still around...

[maddog55]

Monkeys would be offensive to those who pander and surrender !

[Starboard]

I seriously doubt that anyone watching the Redskins ever really thinks about indians at all. Its only the PC crowd that perceives ‘hurtful insults’ in everything they see, which gives them excuses to demand that people bend to their every demand. Its all about power and control.

[Eleutheria5]

Oh, joy. More picking out a name for them. Washington Slave Owners?

[Alberta's Child]

They might as well. Who the hell is going to be watching anyway?

[T.B. Yoits]

Sounds like they started up the merchandise and marketing machines only to find someone else already owned their intended name and both sides can't agree on the selling price.

Another example of a Virtue Skid where they intended to Virtue Signal and failed spectacularly.

[Darteaus94025]

"How about name it for those who buy the tickets?
The Washington Lobbyists."

Yes, that's good first start. BUT, you still include the name of the racist, slave-owning, dead, white make who founded the patriarchal, homophobic, racist nation on stolen land.

The name of the team MUST use the original language of the area from the Algonquian peoples. I DEMAND that the team be called, "Little Blue Bird That Chases Eagles", in the original Algonquian language of course! /s

[Dacula]

Type in Washingtonfootballteam.com

it takes you directly to https://www.redskins.com/

[Gman]

The Washington Kaepernicks...

[lurk]

One would think that the three first letters of the team will expose them to ridicule.

[Eleutheria5]

Washington Maroons.

[gathersnomoss]

What is the word for plural vagina’s? It escapes me....