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.
What will Elizabeth Warren do?
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excellent.
That girl has also been erased. Land O Lakes CEO seems to dislike Native Americans, even prefers an empty space to that attractive, positive image.
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The squaw was removed because Land O Lakes is a farmer owned co-op. They removed the little Indian girl, and are in the process of adding some type of “farmer” image. I hate to say this but that lesbo CEO is doing a great job for LOL. Profits are through the roof. Or should I say the hay mauw.
Dan Snyder acted like a petulant child with a new toy for 20 years, destroying the Redskins franchise, then goes Full Metal Woke in the last year to deflect his complicity in all of the intramural diddling that went on between the players, cheerleaders, and staff. That stumpy little bastard should have lost the franchise AND been thrown in a cell for whatever went on during his watch.
Ding ding ding ding.....you, sir, have won the internet for the day.
After the 2020 elections, I say they should be named the Washington Stealers.
If they had replaced them with underaged children dressed in skimpy outfits gyrating suggestively, I'm sure plenty of D.C. fans would approve.
Yep, the Indians never existed. The Yankee historians are rewriting history.
I agree! It’s the choice of people who attend the game.
And no cheerleaders? Replaced by a coed dance team? They really know their audience. /s
I used to like their butter, now I make sure I don't buy it. Even if they bring back the Indian girl, I won't buy it.
Fine, everyone show up in Cowboy hats!
(no, not the Dallas Cowboys... the Cowboys & Indians cowboys)
No reason to support the team then.
Guess you can’t sing “Hail to the Redskins” anymore.
I used to be so proud of the Ravens.
Until they took a knee during the US anthem and standing for the GB anthem in a London stadium.
Eff ‘em.
Headresses and face paint of long-dead savages ... now that’s something worth fighting against while our American Republic struggles to survive. Are modern Americans really that stupid or are we just ungrateful savages ourselves? (It’s a valid question.)
Nope, it’s best to keep them out, plenty of firewater is served in the stadium...
Girls with lipstick and makeup.
Yup, and much more.
American Indians not allowed in the stadium.
No fun allowed!
Me know how.
When?
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