Posted on 08/04/2021 4:26:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Washington Football Team, which dropped its controversial name a year ago, has banned Native American garb from its stadium.
Washington has banned fans from wearing Native American headdresses or face paint to games at FedEx Field this season, the team announced Wednesday.
Washington will hold a practice at the stadium Friday with approximately 20,000 fans expected. It will be the biggest crowd since the home finale in 2019, which means it will be the largest gathering in the stadium since the organization announced in July of 2020 it was dropping its old name and seeking a new one. It will be known as the Football Team for 2021, with the permanent name being announced "early in 2022," according to team president Jason Wright. He has said they don't want to announce the name until they also have settled on a logo and a new branding of the organization as well as completing the trademark process.
Wright said they have worked with Native American leaders during the process of finding a new name. He recently announced that Washington would not be choosing the name Warriors as its new one. Owner Dan Snyder had applied to trademark that name in 2007 when he was trying to bring an Arena League to Washington.
But Native American leaders told ESPN last summer that would be too close to the former name and therefore unacceptable.
The team has long said it will keep the burgundy-and-gold color scheme, but did away with its cheerleaders in favor of a coed dance team.
They sure are gay just like the commercial said.
NFL is gay anyway, and what true American would watch that woke garbage? A pox on their houses.
Hope I don’t sound like an @$$hole
South Dakota had 8 tribes.
They used to sport many different logos on clothing and hats.
Redskins, braves, fighting Sioux, Chiefs....
Washington has basically banned fans and profits from its woke, miserable franchise.
The NFL just took a $4 Billion revenue hit and laid off a bunch of people. Yes I have inside info.
I hope they ban people.
I miss that maid of yore.
Good. Maybe some of those prima donna underpaid oppressed team members would go out and get a real job.
Please tell me that no one will go to watch these fools!
The FedEx CEO forced this outcome.
100%
aw shucks, twern’t nothin... /kicks pebble
“Washington has banned fans from wearing Native American headdresses or face paint to games . . .”
Forget about that. You better be wearing Level IV body armor plates in that town.
Corporations are killing sports.
So if the Indian from The Village People showed up, he wouldn’t be allowed inside the stadium?
I see what you did there.
Indians are being consigned by the Woke Moderns to the dustbin of history, the memory hole as it were.
WHY?????
If they have expunged every trace of Native Americans from the team name, branding, merchandising, etc, etc., then why do they need “work with Native Americans”???
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