# What will the Washington Football Team's new name be on 2 February 2022? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [January 4, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231 "2022-01-04T23:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/41 "2022-01-05T15:01:20Z")
The Washington Generals. They can buy rights to the name. Or the Filibusters. They’d lead the league in delay-of-game penalties. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/42 "2022-01-05T15:34:22Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > In the end, they fucked themselves by not doing this 15 years ago and going with Warriors and keeping the native America motifs. They’d have been viewed as progressive and would have still managed to keep most of the conservative old assholes on board. But they made it super toxic and it’ll end up being another shitty WNBA-level name that mean nothing. They missed a golden opportunity to build some goodwill. They could have agreed to change the name, consulted with some tribal groups, and come up with a symbol and a name that was acceptable to most people. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/43 "2022-01-05T20:44:02Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > They could have agreed to change the name, consulted with some tribal groups, and come up with a symbol and a name that was acceptable to most people. Then you’d get this: [![](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ea3585927217447f0fce51de33c2b47ece818d60/c=2-0-2318-3088/local/-/media/2018/08/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636688036433336056-IMG-8919.jpg?width=300&height=400&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) ](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ea3585927217447f0fce51de33c2b47ece818d60/c=2-0-2318-3088/local/-/media/2018/08/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636688036433336056-IMG-8919.jpg?width=300&height=400&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/44 "2022-01-05T20:48:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Then you’d get this: Or you’d get something like the Seminoles of Florida State. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/45 "2022-01-05T20:48:37Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I wonder if that would be enough for the team to back away from it. Or I guess they could try to get Keanu and cross promote 😉 Dan Snyder is enough of a jerk, I could see him ruining a fun (but not in any objective way good) movie by doing this. > [@snowthx](#): > > Wasn’t Dwayne Johnson the quarterback of the Washington Generals in some other film? The Boston Rebels in “The Game Plan” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/46 "2022-01-05T20:50:28Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Or you’d get something like the Seminoles of Florida State. Yeah, that is a cool story. Their mascot represents a specific tribe, and they collaborate with the tribe in using their name. It’s officially sanctioned by the tribe. That’s the only right way to do something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/47 "2022-01-05T20:53:48Z")
They could copy what Ottawa did in the CFL, and name their team the Redblacks. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/48 "2022-01-05T20:56:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Yeah, that is a cool story. Their mascot represents a specific tribe, and they collaborate with the tribe in using their name. It’s officially sanctioned by the tribe. That’s the only right way to do something like that. Yeah, and what I’m saying is that Washington had a chance to go a similar route. They had an opportunity to approach one or more tribes and have them participate in selecting both a name and a symbol for the team. I don’t know if it would have worked, but it might have. And it sure as heck would be a better legacy than digging their heels in the ground and refusing to even think about changing it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/49 "2022-01-05T21:00:54Z")
The Washington Jeffersons? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/50 "2022-01-05T21:08:00Z")
And the Washington Jeffersons have moved it on up to the the 49ers 5 yard line! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/51 "2022-01-05T21:10:51Z")
The Monuments ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/52 "2022-01-05T21:36:19Z")
Sentinels doesn’t really do it for me. It just makes me think of someone who’s standing there on guard duty, watching over something and all the while hoping nothing actually happens. No sense of action or anything dynamic. Same as the Guardians up there in Cleveland. I think the best team names suggest strength or speed or some attribute that would make them a proactive force to be reckoned with. Lions and Tigers and Bears. Bulls. Giants. Titans. The Sharks and the Jets. The Raptors and the Predators. The Pirates and the Buccaneers and the Raiders. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/53 "2022-01-05T21:39:48Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > In the end, they fucked themselves by not doing this 15 years ago and going with Warriors and keeping the native America motifs. They’d have been viewed as progressive and would have still managed to keep most of the conservative old assholes on board. But they made it super toxic > [@Odesio](#): > > And it sure as heck would be a better legacy than digging their heels in the ground and refusing to even think about changing it. Yeah, but what can I say, Snyder gotta snyder. Heck, I could even imagine him doing it on purpose to deny “them” the satisfaction. Always has fascinated me, how someone can arrive at a value set that considers pigheadedness a virtue. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/54 "2022-01-05T22:09:55Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I think the best team names suggest strength or speed or some attribute that would make them a proactive force to be reckoned with. Agree with all your examples, and I’d also add to the category of “good” names, those innately tied to their city or region: Pistons, Timbers, 49ers, Jazz (when they were in New Orleans), Hurricanes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/55 "2022-01-05T22:30:47Z")
The Washingtons Machinestons ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/56 "2022-01-06T01:49:38Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I think the best team names suggest strength or speed or some attribute that would make them a proactive force to be reckoned with. So not the Washington Gridlock, then? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/57 "2022-01-06T02:55:11Z")
For the Kimmy Schmidt fans, the Washington Gun-Takers. Boomer Esiason today said it will be the Admirals. That one really makes no sense to me. George wasn’t an Admiral. The city is on a river not the ocean. There are admirals in the Pentagon but it’s filled with a bunch of other ranks and services too. Nothing about the city says Admiral. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/58 "2022-01-06T03:05:07Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Nothing about the city says Admiral. Maybe they’re naming themselves after the butterfly. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/59 "2022-01-06T03:22:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Nothing about the city says Admiral. > > Maybe they’re naming themselves after the butterfly. Or the refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-washington-football-teams-new-name-be-on-2-february-2022/957231/60 "2022-01-06T03:23:04Z")
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