Posted on 10/05/2013 7:32:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
In the spirit of removing all references to Indians in sports, I propose:
Atlanta Braves (baseball) - Freedom Riders
Cleveland Indians (baseball) - Rockers
Kansas City Chiefs (football) - Cavalry
Washington Redskins (football) - K Street
Chicago Blackhawks (ice hockey) - Desert Foxes
Freedom Riders - No major league sports team honors the black experience in America. While many good nicknames come to mind, one would be Freedom Riders.
Rockers - If basketball can have the Jazz (the franchise was first located in New Orleans), baseball can have the Rockers, as the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland.
Cavalry - Hey, they didn’t win every battle, but they did win the war. This name will signify that we have finally rid the country of references to Indians in sports through the white man’s trick of convincing the red man that Indian names are offensive.
K Street - Countering the Oakland Raiders on the West Coast would be the Washington K Street, home of corporate lobbyists and PAC men, the most low down, dirty, no-good sons-a-bitches in history.
Desert Foxes - If it is politically-incorrect to name a team after an Indian who fought against us, then why not some other commander of an enemy army. I propose the Desert Fox, after Erwin Rommel, who fought us in North Africa.
The stadium is actually in Maryland, right?
So I’d suggest “Beltway Baraqqis”
FMCDH(BITS)
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I really wish FR had a way to merge comments when they pull a thread. I searched, didn’t see yours, posted the same article and it received over 50 good comments after I last checked, then it was “pulled” with a link to this one. All the time people spent posting just went “poof”.
How about the Washington Boondoggles.. in honor of his two terms.?
Oh wait. dogs might be offended.
anything to keep benghazi off the front page, I reckun.
hmm.. btw.. mmmm.. how about the benGhazi Obfuscators?
I like that, has a ring to it.
“If he owned them?” He’ll have them Nationalized soon enough, and he can name them the Washington Crackas if he wants.
Not many Americans really care what the Kenyan is “open to” these days.
would that be a legal name change... or something done on a whim after returning from a trip overseas?
would they get a new EIN or just re-use someone elses?
Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names like the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people."The team should be renamed "Washington Kenyans" or "Washington Jihad".
How about calling them The Washington Pigskins.
A nod to all the pork in Washington.
Oh no, I guess not. Might offend Muslims.
I for one find the NAACP’s name offensive. Why doesn’t Obama change that, while he’s at it?
Is he thinking about nationalizing the Redkins so he can re-name them the Native Americans?
Maybe putting Barrycades around their HQ? Ordering the Parks service to surround the stadium?
Just sayin’
It took all this time, until we had a Constitutional Law Professor as President, before the country had a President who realized that one of the powers of the Presidency is to determine names for professional sports clubs.
Washington Deficits
Two possible names would be
the Washington Rats
the Washington Vultures
Yeah . . . “Washington Mujahideen” came to my mind too when I read this story.
why not black skins?
How about the Washington Diversities?
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