The DC-Area NFL Team Can Kiss the Name "Redskins" Goodbye

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Over the years, I’ve generally defended the team’s use of the Redskins moniker. And these days, I really don’t have much of a dog in the fight, as I’ve pretty much given up football.

But - what can I say - I still hate The Danny. And so I find great joy and amusement in the knowledge that he’s hired what amounts to the Fantastic Four of inside-the-Beltway sleaze - Ari Fleischer, Lanny Davis, Frank Luntz, and George Allen - to defend the team’s use of the Redskins name. As Jonathan Chait says at the link,

Indeed. So:

Yeppers. :smiley:

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Well, it was the other type of Indian George Allen was filmed taunting with racist slurs, so I guess that should…help?

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Yeah, lets get the guy who lost an election because he’s a racist douche help us defend our racist team name.

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Maybe they thought they were hiring George Allen, their former coach. He died in 1990, but it’s easy to lose track of stuff like that.

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The George Allen in the OP is the coach’s son. So, yeah, simple mistake.

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What exactly are these people supposed to do? There’s not a lawsuit pending over the name is there?

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Actually, there is.

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Interesting. Thanks for the link. If their trademark was revoked, it would not technically force them to change the name, but as a practical matter they probably would change it. Lots of money at stake…

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The team’s current motto is “the past is now”.

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Seems to me that the whole process of selecting a new name could lead to millions of dollars worth of free publicity. Plus the NFL could use some good (or even neutral) ink these days.

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Win.

Which is more than the Deadskins do, these days. :smiley:

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Aren’t there enough advocates of keeping the name (who aren’t racist asswipes) that it would probably take the coverage out of neutral territory?

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Incidentally, isn’t it great that there’s no more war or disease in the world?

I mean, there MUSTN’T be, or the United Nations would never spend time discussing the nickname of a football team, would they?

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Because we all know big organizations can only get involved with one problem at a time, and must solve them in sequence.

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Calling a football team “redskins” is retarded and gay.

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And how can the U.N. “solve” this problem, anyway? What authrority do they have to do ANYTHING about a football team’s nickname? They gonna send in some peacekeeping troops to enforce a name change?

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None, and I don’t think anyone asked the UN to solve the problem. It’s part of the broader PR push and the meeting lasted all of 45 minutes.

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That’s mighty white of you to say.