Change the uniform to something like this.
Rename to Washington Warriors or Washington Tribe.
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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That had to be the late great Norm MacDonald.
I think it was Norm.
I was at a Chicago/Beach Boys concert in 1975 at Anaheim Stadium.
During one of the beach boy songs the second and third level started bouncing all at the same time and it was still daytime and you could see it moving up and down.
It was scary and they did tell them to stop.
“They don’t deserve congratulations for wanting to make more money selling logos.”
I’m sure there will be new Redskin merchandise.
They can use that as their excuse.
Wokester will give them a pass for that.
the washington whatever’s
Ah, a packed RFK Stadium, back in the era when Redskins season tickets had a years long waiting list. Jack Kent Cooke was one of the all-time great owners. It’s too bad he moved the stadium to the suburbs, but he wanted a bigger stadium — and the team would have filled it — and finally got desperate to see it built before he died.
The old RFK stadium is slated for demolition soon and the current mayor is desperate to see the team return to the RFK site. But times have changed. The residents of the area absolutely do not want it. Not that the mayor cares about DC residents.
The problem is not the stadium itself; that’s ok. The problem is the vast parking lots surrounding it. With however many NFL games and a scattering of special events through the year, the parking lots sit empty 350+ days a year. That is an insane misuse of space right along a riverfront in the middle of a big city. A new stadium on the RFK site would be fine if we did without the parking lots. The billionaires can park their private jets at Dulles and metro in like everyone else, or have their limos drop them off.
After decades of neglect running back to the redlining of black neighborhoods and the dumping of housing projects on the east side of town and close-in PG County, the Anacostia corridor is coming back to life. It should be open space, green space, and parks and recreation all the way from Bladensburg down to Buzzard Point. It is our accessible riverfront. Acres of empty parking lots right along the river? That’s so stupid that only suburbanites and our mayor support it.
Back in the day, those games were classic. The marketing of the game, the teams, everything....
From Wikipedia:
When the NFL began considering expansion to Texas, the Washington Redskin’s owner, George Preston Marshall strongly opposed the move, as it would end his three-decade monopoly on pro football in the South. In 1958, potential owner Clint Murchison, who was trying to bring the NFL back to Dallas, bought the rights to “Hail to the Redskins” from the song’s composer and threatened to prevent Marshall from playing it at games. Marshall agreed to back Murchison’s bid, Murchison gave him back the rights to the song, and the Dallas Cowboys were founded.
Red Blooded = American
American Express Commercial Featuring Tom Landry (1986)
https://youtu.be/8do9Y1rwQeA?si=Pm-Ye639jUwzmhsu
I never refer to this team by its current moniker, and the same thing goes with the Cleveland baseball team. They will always be the Redskins and Indians.
Change the uniform to something like this.
Rename to Washington Warriors or Washington Tribe.
LOL. I remember when Mayor Marion “B*tch Set Me Up” Barry trying to downplay DC’s reputation for violent crime, announced on TV that “D.C. is not Dodge City.”
Shortly after that, the mayor of Dodge City, KS went on TV and announced that they were not Washington, D.C.
Yes-I can’t remember...perhaps it was not some stadium collapse, instead, I may have been thinking of the Hyatt walkway collapse in 1981, and that wasn’t due to mechanical resonance, it was just a poor design.
But I think that game I went to was only days after that collapse, so while it may not have been at the front of everyone’s mind, it was most certainly at the back of their minds which explains the instantaneous stop of the jumping and stomping of feet when someone yelled out at that Boston Bruins game in the old Boston Garden.
I agree! Now I remember-you used to be a Redskins fan! I remember someone on Bender2’s weekly threads calling you a “DeadSkins” fan! Or at least, I think it was you...:)
I started watching NFL football when my family moved back to the States from Subic Bay in 1971 and we lived near Andrews AFB. Those people were crazy about the Redskins back then, and me, delivering the Washington Post on the base I was on, got caught up in it!
Chicken shits didn’t have guts to stand up to the little fascists before Trump won. Stinking cowards.
Our ship association used CRBronzeworks, which created a cast of the logo for restoration process. We chose the company, because among examples of their work at the website was a plaque of Robert E. Lee.
Going un-woke! More of this!
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