How 'bout changing the name Redskin to mean “dead horse”. Surely this one had been beat enough.
They should change the name to “the Honkies”. At the first game under the new name, they should make sure that the starting lineup consists entirely of African-Americans.
They should have a name that harkens to our nation capitol and the public servants who toil for the good of the country there. I propose:
The Lazy, Good-for-Nothing, Corrupt, Hypocritical, A-holes.
Kind of a flip post, but it makes sense as a team name. I’m not certain how many NFL players are of Native American decent, but there sure are a hell of a lot with at least some African ancestry.
But yeah, it seems a little crass to memorialize the target of genocide by making them a mascott for a team invented by their destroyers. Might be appropriate for a lacrosse team, though.
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You see? All this fuss, and all the name ever was was a warning to parents of lethal sibling fights . . .
Could they do something like that then? Washington already has something similiar with the Capitals and the Nationals. Why not say, the Senators, (yes, I know there were several teams in the past that used that) or say, the Colonials? Something related to the area. A lot of cities have done that – Pittsburgh Steelers, Milwaukee Brewers, etc)
Thing is, this wouldn’t offend or otherwise bother me in the slightest.
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I suppose the Washington Injuns would be out.
They way they’re playing this year, they might as well change their name to The Washington Generals.
I wish they would just change the name to the Washington Whiteskins. It’s not offensive, really! It would honor all the proud people with white skin who have contributed to football over the years. The mascot could be a robust, rosy-cheeked white man, maybe with spats and a top hat (think the mascot from Monopoly). Kind of a rich, white lawyer who defeats his opponents with technicalities and lawsuits. What better representative of DC, even all of football really, could there be than a white lawyer?
- Are you white?
- Do you live in a country where the majority of the population is white?
- In your lifetime, have you experienced few, if any, discrimination as a result of your membership in the majority white population?
If your answers to the above questions are “yes,” then it’s not a suprise that the proposal to change the team name to “Honkies” wouldn’t bother you in the slightest.
“Engines” might work… 
POW-a-TAN.
Well, that’s the entire point, isn’t it?
I think the team name of Redskins is simply awful and flat-out racist. But speaking as a white dude who has lived where I was a minority, and treated differently because of it, the term honkie is just simply powerless to me. It’s bizarre, archaic, and does not make me any more offended than if someone proposed to rename the team the “Washington Colorless Worm Flibbity-Floo Snot Rockets.”
I also recognize that the word honkie is intended as an insult, and it would be stupid to name a team that. But to play the card that someone could only not be offended by the term honkie if they have never lived as a minority population is simply in error.
Let me get this straight – you’re arguing your experience living someplace as a minority is equivalent to the historic discrimination that Native Americans (and other minorities) have experienced in the United States?
No. That isn’t what I said at all. If you had read my post, instead of jumping straight to being offended by it, you will note that I said that I find the team name to be “awful and flat-out racist.”
What I said was that thinking that the main reason a white person isn’t offended by the term “honkie” is that they have never been a minority or experienced discrimination is an error on your part. The term “honkie” is certainly intended to be an offensive term, but if I had to guess, most white people view the term as strange and not having the offensive power that other insults do when used against non-whites.
Please go ahead an re-read my previous post if this is not clear to you.
Washington Niggers
Washington Towelheads
Washington Chinks
Washington Japs
Washington Spics
Washington Kikes
Washington Sand Niggers
Washington Dotheads
Washington Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Washington Gyps
Washington Limeys
Washington Guidos
They practice in VA, play in MD. Change the name to something that reflects reality. Landover Lizzards? DMV Clerks (DMV sometimes used to mean DC, MD & VA as in “best sports bar in the DMV”.
If this was a joke (I assume it is), it kind of falls flat, Let’s just try not to throw around those terms (even jokingly) in threads not about those kind of jokes.