# Redskins Trademark may be canceled. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 18, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059 "2014-06-18T14:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/81 "2017-06-20T01:00:14Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Because he didn’t build it, it was built by Jack Kent Cooke (whose name Snyder took off of it after he bought the team). > > If they do have to change the name, I can only pray they don’t put it up for public vote. “The public” are morons; that’s how we ended up with the freakin’ “Washington Wizards.” I can see it now: Gridiron McStadiumface. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/82 "2017-06-20T02:50:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Because he didn’t build it, it was built by Jack Kent Cooke (whose name Snyder took off of it after he bought the team). > > If they do have to change the name, I can only pray they don’t put it up for public vote. “The public” are morons; that’s how we ended up with the freakin’ “Washington Wizards.” If I recall correctly, “Wizards” was not the top vote-getter in the public poll. It was the name that Abe Pollen preferred. Those public votes are phony anyway; there’s nothing binding about them. Anyway, Washington has to keep up the tradition of having the worst nicknames: Redskins: Racist and offensive Wizards: WTF does this have anything to do with the local area? Capitals: Boring, unimaginative, and WTF, like a team of seats of government whose logo is a building? Nationals: Boring, generic, and untrue (they’re not the national team, or even a national team of any kind) So, I’ve always supported “Americans” for a new name for the Redskins: Boring, generic, and blandly patriotic. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/83 "2017-06-21T03:51:55Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Nationals: Boring, generic, and untrue (they’re not the national team, or even a national team of any kind) [It’s a reference to the Washington’s entry in the first professional league.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals_(NA)) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/84 "2017-06-21T11:00:28Z")
I still don’t see why the team name didn’t go back to Senators when they moved the Expos. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/85 "2017-06-21T11:22:47Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I still don’t see why the team name didn’t go back to Senators when they moved the Expos. Two reasons: 1. People in the Washington area objected because the District of Columbia isn’t represented in Congress. 2. The Texas Rangers, who were the last team to play in Washington as the Senators, still own the rights to the nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/86 "2017-06-21T23:31:50Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [It’s a reference to the Washington’s entry in the first professional league.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals_(NA)) I know all that. It’s still a fucking dumb name. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059/87 "2017-06-24T07:53:48Z")
I still miss the name: Baltimore/Washington Bullets. Though if you google it, it comes up with Wizards responses! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redskins-trademark-may-be-canceled/691059.md?page=4)