Posted on 11/27/2024 5:46:02 AM PST by vespa300
Washington Commanders managing partner Josh Harris and the NFL Commanders ownership group have agreed to un-cancel the Redskins (the iconic Blackfoot chief logo) history.
In a post on Facebook by Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the Congressman wrote that “The censorship of the former Commanders logo was a classic case of woke gone wrong. I applaud the Commanders & the NFL for their commitment to never censor the logo again.”
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Well, whattaya know. More good news, before Trump even takes office.
It’s great but not as good as the Baltimore Colts, transformed for the Ravens.
Unless they re-write the Redkins tune, I guess it’s gone, period. Lots of luck re-writing that!
Money surely plays a role considering negotiations are underway to refurbish RFK stadium and bring the ‘Skins back into DC, rather than Maryland.
RFK looks to be in bad shape, and probably has few profitable luxury boxes...when did they move ?....it’s been a while
Commanders is such a diaper-wearing name.
Do you think of Jurgenson, Williams, Riggins, Baugh, Jacoby, Monk, Mulkey, Gibbs, Brown, The Hogs, Theisman as...commanders?
This is an old film. When neither the Redskins nor Bud had totally caved.
If you say so. Clint Murchison, first owner of the Dallas Cowboys, used to own the rights to Hail to the Redskins. When he tried to get a NFL franchise for Dallas, in 1959, the league was all for it. All except George Preston Marshall, owner of the Redskins, and back then granting of new new NFL franchises had to be unanimously approved by the team owners.
At the time there were neither NFL teams in the South, nor an NFL TV contract. Marshall kept all the Redskin players white, and had his own TV contracts with TV stations in the South, so his team was very profitable, while losing consistently. Not unlike the Cowboys of today...
The Cowboys were going to field black players, which would give them a competitive advantage over the Redskins. Marshall thought, correctly, that most football fans in the South would rather support an integrated team that won, than a lily white team that lost, so he refused to approve a franchise for Dallas.
The Cowboys ownership, looking for leverage, found out that Marshall did not own the rights to Hail to the Redskins, and purchased it. They sent Marshall a notice that if the song was used in anyway at Redskins games, he would be sued.
Some of the other other NFL owners raised the idea that they could all withdraw from the NFL, and form a new league, with new franchises in Texas, and Minnesota, leaving the Redskins as the NFL's sole team, to scrimmage themselves. While that would have guaranteed the Redskins a .500 season, Marshall knew he couldn't sell tickets, or TV rights, to that, and he gave in. Dallas got an NFL franchise, and the Redskins got the rights to their fight song.
I liked the “Miami Dolphins Number One!” song, and then the Oilers stole it.
I’m not certain but I seem to recall that various prominent Indians (”chiefs” perhaps) have said that they had no problem with “Redskins”...”Indians”...and “Chiefs”.
Most of us never even began calling them the ‘Commanders’.
I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.
Mechanical Resonance? Where if the people are bouncing at just the right frequency it amplifies the vibrations.
Sort of like Kwanzaa. I’ve lived and worked among Black people all my life, but I’ve never known a Black person who celebrated it.
Wahoo!!! I have a lot of friends in Arizona who will be happy to hear this. They live on the reservations.
It’s been true in every survey of Native Americans that’s been done on the issue.
Ditto. I want to see that Chief Wahoo grin again. The baseball team wasn’t guarding anything anyway.
I haven’t either. And everyone I know in the DC area still calls them the Redskins.
Yep, go to any game and you will easily be able to tell who the conservative fans are and who the liberal ones are.
The conservatives are wearing Redskins gear, and the liberals are wearing the Commanders gear.
I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.
Oh yeah, I remember fans doing that and also trying to make the stadium sway. Crazy days.
I went to FedEx Field once - my sister & brother in law got us four tickets in the Club Level for a Houston Texans vs the Redskins in 2002 game when I was up visiting for Christmas. My dad came too and I was the only Texans fan there. (The fans were nice - we were brand new.)
What a dull, cookie-cutter stadium FedEx Field was. It was no match for the lively and colorful RFK Stadium.
"The NBA's Washington Bullets have announced a name change, so that the franchise is no longer associated with violence, death and suffering."
"From now on, the team will be called just the Bullets.
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