Correct!
Word.
Did you see the Bud Light right next to the lyrics?
The woke sure turned the world upside down. Bring back the Red Skins.
Hail to the Redskins
Hail victory
Braves on the warpath
Fight for old D.C.!
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!
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.
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.
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.
I shouldn’t mention this, but you’d be amazed how many people call the so-called “Commanders” after hours and play that song.