Posted on 10/09/2013 11:58:31 AM PDT by markomalley
To Everyone in our Washington Redskins Nation:
As loyal fans, you deserve to know that everyone in the Washington Redskins organization -- our players, coaches and staff -- are truly privileged to represent this team and everything it stands for. We are relentlessly committed to our fans and to the sustained long-term success of this franchise.
That’s why I want to reach out to you --our fans -- about a topic I wish to address directly: the team name, “Washington Redskins.” While our focus is firmly on the playing field, it is important that you hear straight from me on this issue. As the owner of the Redskins and a lifelong fan of the team, here is what I believe and why I believe it.
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Better not use the word ‘Bigger’................
No such thing.
The strategy of the left is to create and pander to “victim” groups in order to expand their socialist army. Their actual ideas and goals are so odious that they don’t help attract people to their cause. So they keep their true intentions as quiet as they can. Instead they have to manufacture side issues like this in order to get donations and votes.
Probably came to them that "red" and "skin" could refer to potatoes, and potatoes remind them of an Irish Seven Course meal, and that plays to some forms of the addiction gene that most Kennedys apparently have.
I agree—a good way for kids to learn the names of Indian tribes, or be familiar with the terms, is through the sports teams—I was reading “Little House on the Prairie” last night to my 8 and 11 yr old kids and was stunned to learn that they had never heard the names “Comanche” or “Apache”—a little homeschooling on my part on Indian tribes is in order. . .
Good point. Ethnic societal, sometimes very subtle, differences do exist. Different folk have experienced calamity in many ways.. Including via food.. Especially the Irish.
Pass the wuudka.
Is the name Quisling taken?
Would Snyder please ask this question? How would changing the Redskins name improve the life of any Native Americans?
“Team Travon” would not only honor a brother, it would eulogize the thuggery that exists in professional sports.
You're talking 1960 to 1963. Civil rights for Indians were even a smoke signal on the horizon. The only Indians the public knew were Tonto, Geronimo, chief Crazy Horse, Hiawatha, Pocohontas, Squanto and maybe one or two others.
I'd like to suggest they be renamed "Foreskins" in honor of Sandra Fluck.
That was back when they didn’t like each other. My favorite was 1979, when Staubach threw three TD passes late in the 4th quarter in a comeback win on the last day of the season. The Cowboys won the division, and the Redskins were eliminated. After the game, Harvey Martin threw a funeral wreath into a dejected Redskins’ locker room.
If you’re bored, watch the game here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQzA97RfLVM
Find, if you can, one of those old (pre-1975) National Geographic books on Indians. Try Amazon, e-Bay or garage sales. Back then, they still told the straight story.
Which is it?
I know what it is not, it's not about the symbols being “racist”, it's all about power and money.
If Washington's team was named “The rebels” with a Southern soldier waving a Confederate Battle flag instead of an “Native American” symbol, these same agitators would be crying racism still, only the symbol wouldn't be ridiculing but one of empowering.
Just as they did at Ole Miss with their Rebels and their southern gentleman mascot.
I quit paying attention to these leftwingnuts agitating attention whores and I wish organizations would see them for what they are.
Great letter. Keep the name, some people just need to F’n GROW UP!
I think I’ll pass on that video.
As for the point of the original post, I find the “Cowboys” to be very offensive.
BTW, was that the game that Drew Pearson made that “behind the back” catch ?
Don’t think it was that game. He made some good catches in his day. My favorite Cowboy, even if he was named after a communist columnist.
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