Commies it is!
I always thought Al Michaels was pretty conservative.
The change is very confusing to me....
I know it’s not the Redskins that’s bothersome to the left, but the Washington part.
It's just another example of how clueless and oblivious the denizens of DC are when it comes to actual people in the actual world.
Could be worse....http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/astros.wav
Washington Commies it is! Excellent.
So when the liberals swing back into anti-military doves from their “we’re in power” hawk mode which they invariably will. Then, they will cry that the war mongering militaristic names of the teams have to go.
This is rich. God bless Al Michaels.
Rush always said good things about Al Michaels.
Hail To The Redskins!
Commies are animals that are very common in the Washington DC area. The name is appropriate.
The nick name is confusing. When reffering to the Washington Commies it could either be the Football team or the residents of the District of Corruption.
Al Michaels, whose work I have always enjoyed, may have stolen “Washington Commies” from former Freeper and continuously hysterical person Iowahawk ()https://mobile.twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1488893518269530112.).
The lazy generic name that is easily mockable is only part of the story. The two year search that cost millions of dollars and involved dozens of “experts” and thousands of people being surveyed repeatedly and then ending up with a name and logo that could have come from a generic video game with multiple obvious flaws ripe for mockery is more of a story and the more they tell the story, the more likely this whole thing is going to end up in b-school textbooks in the future as a gigantic business failure.
If I were on the team’s marketing department, I’d lean heavy into the “Commies” gimmick (if only to avoid the alternative “C-men” nickname from sticking). They could have a group of caricatured communist mascots (Carl, Joe, and Lenny) with oversized beards and mustaches running around after fans trying to get food at the concession stands and then getting comically foiled in their plots like Wiley Coyote, maybe even having the hero of the foiled plots be a patriotic warthog as a callback to the old days when DC was actually a football town. But nah, that would take creativity, and if it took two years and millions of dollars to land on “Commanders”, creativity ain’t the team’s strong point.
The Fort Wayne, IN minor league team is called the Tin Caps (in honor of Johnny Appleseed who is buried in the town). It quickly became the pot heads.
More like the commandos, with or without the underwear. Do they turn it around when used?
Or will the cheerleaders be called the comman-does.
They screwed up. Now it’s time to shame them into changing the stupid name again.