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Originally Posted by MTK
Don't we have enough birds in the league anyway? Also I think they want to stay away from anything that could be possibly misconstrued as racist, now or in the future. So that means no to any colors in the name.
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I was unaware that there was some kind of quota in the NFL for bird names. 5 of 32 does not strike me as excessive.
As to your second point, it took some very 'magical' thinking to state Redskins was a racist name. But sillier notions have prevailed, humans are imperfect and prone to hysteria, and this is where we are.
But to think that anyone could seriously state that Redhawk is racist is going way beyond magical thinking and deep into the realm of absolute stupidity.
And, as I have state over and over, there is precedent and those that preceded us have offered help:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...on-name-issue/