The Washington Savages

Now there is a proper name for the team. Either that or paint the helmets brown with a red dot on the forehead and call it the Indians. Those who don't like that can call the fucking help desk.

I'd be more ashamed of being from Washington.

Cry moar.

I'm headed down to Portland this weekend for a stag and I'm told it has the most strippers per capita in North America. I'm not seeing the downside.

Howzabout the Washington Lib'rul Pussies?

During halftime the score will be "At this point what difference does it make?"

The Washington Thoughtcrimes?

The Washington Rednecks?

They should call themselves "The Democratic-Republicans" (and see how many Americans know which party started out with that name...) Then, they could ignore anything the other team is actually doing, and just fight among themselves about who would be best able to defeat the opposition, if it wasn't for the other half of their own team.

Or, they could just call themselves "The Politicians." That way, no one will care if they don't win, because most people think politicians are a bunch of losers anyway.

The team should be named for those who own the city:

The Washington Lobbyists

Or The Washington Insiders.

The Washington Scalpers

They can keep the name "Redskins", only if they change the logo to a potato.

Or, in keeping with the Washington tradition, to a potatoe...

Washington Wastrels.

Nope, that would be Tampa, FL.

EDIT: I stand corrected. After some duly-diligent internet research, apparently Portland does have that claim to fame. I must go there to do further research.

How about The Washington Rez-Rats? Or The Washington Hoy-Ya-Hey-Ya-Hoy-Ya-Hey-Ya! My favorite, though, would be The Washington ThoughtCrimes.

This happens to be one I agree with. What if there was a team with another racial term in it, say the Detroit Niggers? I can imagine the quotes from fans and announcers....

"Come on, Vikings! Beat them Niggers!"
"How 'bout them Niggers!"
"The ball is on the Nigger forty-two yard line."
"This is Nigger football right here!"

Just change the name. It's not like no other team has ever changed their name.

But isn't Viking an insensitive term for immigrants for Norway? We should change the offensive name of the state of Indiana.

The Washington Panderers

I had that thought, but then I quickly discarded it as idiotic. There is nothing sensitive about a term that reminds people of a vigorous and heroic ancestry. Yes, like Scandinavians, Native Americans have much to be proud of in their history. But their history does not include use of the term redskin. That is from the history of white settlers who stole from and otherwise humiliated the natives. The term references an embarrassing period in American history, not something to celebrate, and very much a reminder to current day native Americans that they were often seen (and perhaps still are at times) as something less than human.

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So you think people would name a team after people they hate, despise and belittle. I don't buy that. You name teams after things you look up to.

So we can have names like The Braves, The Chiefs, etc (which are positive terms for Native Americans) yet we still killed, conquered, and displaced all these people no matter what we currently call them, and our stadiums are built on land we took from them. So we can call them braves, primitives, superiors, inferiors, equals, redskins, tan skins, etc.etc. but we still skull fucked them to expand our culture, so what fucking difference does it make?

The Squaws. The Washington Squaws.

No, I think they named the Redskins because they admired the tough tenacious spirit of Native American warriors. But that doesn't change the fact that the term originated as a racial slur. And if the current owner really does admire native culture, he would understand what the original owners did not, which is that you don't honor a culture through use of a derogatory term.

Yeah. They're all white dudes with dreadlocks.

You will. You will.

The need for the power-tripping PC police to get their way. That's the difference. Doesn't matter how many or how few people are actually outraged by the name. Doesn't matter that those yelling the loudest about it have no actual stake whatsoever in it. The PC Police Have Spoken, and thou shalt bow down.

The pendulum is always swingin', though, left to right to left to right. Next time it's in full swing toward the right, look for a Republican administration to revoke Planned Parenthood's trademarks on account of "it isn't parenthood they're about", or some equally ridiculous bullshit. Because the Redskins forced name change will have established the precedent for that.

"They wouldn't dare!"

They would. And thanks to this piece of underhanded chickenshit chicanery, now they can.

People always bring up the Vikings as a way to defend the fact a bunch of white people are using brown people as a mascot without their permission. Apparently they don't realize that Minnesota is mostly inhabited by people who actually are Scandinavian, so they actually used something from their own culture to name their team after. And this doesn't even touch on the racial slur thing.