Posted on 06/20/2014 6:22:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder is not a particularly admirable man. He tends to treat the Redskins as if he’s playing fantasy football. They tend to lose more often than they win. He’s not exactly a fan favorite. But Snyder isn’t taking the U.S. Patent Office’s ruling against his team lying down.
The team has released a statement saying the ruling “will have no effect at all on the team’s ownership of and right to use the Redskins’ name/logo”. They’re correct, but it does allow others to use the name as they wish…the just can’t trademark it either.
Which, in the short term at least, means we’re likely to see a whole lot of pirated Redskins merch hit the streets. Dan Snyder just won’t make any money from it.
For its part, the NFL is trying to be Switzerland. It’s not going to say anything in support of or opposition to the Patent Office’s decision.
At some point, the Washington Redskins will be forced to change their name. It’s only a matter of time. The hostile occupying force that is now the Beltway cannot abide anything less than total capitulation from the rest of us. After that, maybe Washington will see fit to force Oklahoma (translation: “red people”) to officially call itself “Texas’ Pan-Shaped Hat.”
Snyder could have some fun with a Redskins renaming contest, though. Twitter has lit up with alternative names. Snyder could poll test them to see which ones capture Americans’ current attitudes.
What do you think the Redskins’ new name should be?
Washington RedTapes (12%, 154 Votes)
Washington Extremists of Undetermined Religious Background (20%, 252 Votes)
Washington Desk Jockeys (3%, 35 Votes)
Washington Bolsheviks (40%, 496 Votes)
Beltway Bandits (26%, 322 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,242
The Washington Scalpers.
Considering what the Ruling Class in D.C. is doing to the Country, it fits.
Washington Windbags
Washington Wussies
Washington Redistributioners
Washington Pathetics
Houston Afros
That sounds good. They could make a deal with the tribe like FSU and the Seminoles.....................
Change the logo, not the name....
Sunburned, bikini clad, model.
I hope I shall never have to warn you again, Zep!
Factual information is definitely out of place on this type'o'thread. Confine yourself to vague boolshiite, or it's to the Moderator you go.
Capito?
Tampa overcame this problem.
Yep, that’s why I picked the name.
There's a good discussion of the issue here:
Yep, I consider myself to have been suitably reprimanded.
I’ve been here long enough to know not to inject pesky facts into such a discussion. I can be a bit of a wet blanket at times. :-)
Washington Negroes?
“Foreskins.”
We already call them that. And when it’s particularly bad, the Deadskins.
The Washington Rubicundermis
The Washington Balloon Knots
Foreskins.
5.56mm
Cheasapeake Redskins
August 24 ,1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.
When the British arrived at the White House, they found that President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already fled to safety in Maryland. Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover food from the White House scullery using White House dishes and silver before ransacking the presidential mansion and setting it ablaze.
The White House, a number of federal buildings, and several private homes were destroyed. The still uncompleted Capitol building was also set on fire, and the House of Representatives and the Library of Congress were gutted before a torrential downpour doused the flames.
Gary Klein
How about the Washington Brown shirts.
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