Posted on 07/23/2020 11:22:35 AM PDT by dangus
I LOVE the new name for the Team Formerly Known as Redskins; it's SO PERFECT for the city they play for: None at all. Just what Congress would call a "continuing resolution." They're just the Washington Football Team.
Hail to the THIS PAGE IS BLANK ON PURPOSE!
Hail Bureaucracy!
Lobbyists on the Warpath!
Fight for old D.C.!
Run or pass and table—We'll do it when we're able!
Beat 'em, Swamp 'em*,
Touchdown! -- Let the budgets soar!
Gerrymander 'Til you don't have to win!
Sons of [==REDACTED==]. Rah!, Rah!, Rah!
Hail to the THIS PAGE IS BLANK ON PURPOSE!
Hail Bureaucracy!
Lobbyists on the Warpath!
Fight for old D.C.!
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*Original lyric! No, really!
Mostly stolen: I also like the Washington Opossums. They play dead at home, and get killed on the road. And the "O" is always silent.
Another reason never to watch the NFL!
>>Dallas Cowboys vs Washington Football Team just doesn’t have that same panache...................
True, but eventually Dallas will have to change their team name since it’s insensitive to Indians. And then, eventually, the NFL will go broke and all this will be moot.
Then why isn’t hockey called skate? Why isn’t basket ball called football; they play it on their feet? Why isn’t baseball called hit ball; the primary objective is to hit the ball or run ball because you run after you hit it?
The Washington Beaurocrats.
Yeah, we call soccer kickball and they call football hand egg. Personally, I find rugby more fun to watch.
Since the city was named for a Vice President of the US, maybe they could be renamed the Dallas Veeps.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day which read: "Eat Beef. The West wasn't won on salad."
The Washington Football Team is genius. I wouldn’t change it for the world. It shines such a perfect spotlight on the stupidity. If I was on the team, I would change my name to my position and declare my pronoun is pronoun.
Washington Team of Footballers would be better - WTF for short on the helmets and jerseys.
Are they part of the Fugawi tribe?
Billy Kilmer would literally piss on everyone involved in this decision. So would Riggins.
Yes, but when you “strike” you don’t actually hit it, and when you “walk,” you actually run, and when you “slide,” you actually dive, and when you “steal home,” you ...
They could have called themselves the Washington Cowards or Washington Quislings, but I’m sure the Republicans in Congress have already copyrighted those names.
Really it’s just the evolutionary process. Soccer begat rugby, from their Ausie football, two different brands of American football (the college game is truthfully different enough to be a different game even though we pretend it isn’t), and Canadian football. And whichever is the most popular in the region is called “football”. In New Zealand rugby is football, though officially so is soccer. The only think that’s really odd in America is our football doesn’t have a second name.
In other words, don’t over think it. Just go with it.
The perfect name is the “Washington Tyrants.”
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Oh in that case over think the hell out of it. It’s a fun thing to ponder when bored. Shows how very random human language can be.
In Russia, ball foot you!
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