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The team’s owner could still do the right thing, and change the team’s name. Yes, indeedy, he could do that.
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Flag of Southern Treason coming down. Marriage equality. ACA survives another Supreme Court challenge. Now this. Bagger heads imploding all over the United States. Life is good!
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This is a very appropriate time. The change is inevitable. Why not now?
Have a contest or whatever. Get a new symbol. Sell lots of hats. Play football.
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I still think the NFL should give them an ultimatum- either change the mascot and name or have their mascot officially changed to Spuddy the Red Skinned Potato.
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Or force him to sell the team ala Donald Sterling.
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I still think the potato mascot idea would be nicer.
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The owner of the team must be a Socialist. Any owner who was a capitalist would seize this moment as an opportunity to rebrand, create new merchandise and make fat bank selling it to people who already own a closet full of Redskins crap.
Adam Smith would weep today.
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how about the Battlin’ Senators? Turtlin’ Mitch McConnell could be the mascot and they could be called the BS for short…
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What, a Republican team owner do the right thing for a minority group? That is as likely to happen as that team winning the Super Bowl.
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I’m still holding out for the Beltway Bandits.
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In all honesty, most of these guys are “Only Me” Socialists. They love getting tons of support from the government, but don’t want anyone else to have any of it.
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Mitch McConnell could be the mascot
[/quote] Not sure the NFL is ready for a turtle to be a mascot.
The Redskins’ new logo!
http://urbanacresfarmstead.com/sites/default/files/styles/340x223/public/red%20potatoes.jpg?itok=uUa19vRn
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It’s gotta cost a shitload of money to change a pro team’s name. Then consider the precedent it sets. I have to believe that the owner of the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves (among other team owners) are breathing down Snyder’s neck to not give in. It would be dominoes after that.
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couch potatoes everywhere will identify with the Potomac basin NFL franchise.
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This hits on a good point. It seems like somewhere lurking in all of this is a really clever PR campaign to rebrand the team and get people fired up for the new name and logo. And if they pulled it off they’d rake in a good profit from selling all the new gear. Seems like they could be sitting on a gold mine.
Edit: I should have read all the comments, that already stated this.
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Seems like they could be sitting on a gold mine.
If they thought they were sitting on a goldmine and increased profits, they’d already have changed the name. Billionaires aren’t stupid.
No. The problem is not the logo, it is the team name. Change it to Warriors and the issue goes away.
“Redskin” , as applied to people, is the slur. My friends say it is for them what the n word is for others,
The only person who deserves comment on his skin shade is Rep. Boehner. Well, maybe The Donald, if we can ever get past his headress.
Changing the logo to a tuber would also work.
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I beg to differ.
Most appear to be fools, regardless of their net worth.
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