Mascot Issue (AGAIN)

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

My take has always been that its the Washington part of the name I root for, not the Redskins part.

What I have never understood is the passion with which predominantly white fans oppose a change. It clearly is the the most offensive moniker out there, so if in keeping with the zeitgeist they decide to go a more politically correct route, why is that such a tragedy? The Wizards name change was much worse - because the original name was not offensive and the new name and colors were so ridiculously stupid - and we all got over that pretty quickly.

To people who say I dont see what the big deal is with the name, isn't the inverse true as well? That its not that big a deal to change it?

No, I still call them the Bullets and love uniform throwback nights. They should wear Bullets uni's for all home games. I hate the name "Wizards". It sounds like one of the corny WNBA team names. The colors aren't too bad, but I preferred the red/white/blue.

I think the major reason they were forced to change was because in 1994, there were a lot of whackjobs shooting at the White House from the sidewalk, trying to get rid of Clinton. A small plane even tried taking him out from the air. A lot of people in that town were "afraid" of bullets in '94 and '95. The press has said it was a high murder rate among blacks in D.C. that prompted the change, but the timing is suspucious and the Clintons always got their way.

While that's horrible, you can't blame the basketball team. If they were in any other city than ultra-liberal & PC Washington, D.C....their name wouldn't have changed. They could even still be the Baltimore Bullets.

The name Redskins is only offensive if you make an effort to be offended. Our logo is tasteful and looks more like a tribute than an attempt to offend, not like the Cleveland Indians (who I have no problem with them remaining the Indians). If we make ANY change, I wouldn't be opposed to going back to our spear logo. That looked GREAT.

[CanadianSkin]

This is really just a lame arguement that people are offended by the name. There have been good suggestions, like just changing the name to the Skins, cause that is what we call them anyway. I love the thought of putting a white guys totally sunburned on the helmet that would be hilarious.

But really, think about it. "The Cheif" at the stadium is a Black guy, heck so is the Cowboy. Are hog farmers offended by the Hogettes?

Everyone needs to know it is a good thing cause we ware showing them as warriors, if we have to change our name, I think everyone should have to. The Packers have to tick off people working in a meat packing plant, or a cheese plant. The Giants has to offend people who are abnormally tall or large. The Patriots must offended people who are not loyal to their country or wear those old style hats.

As it has been said, it is a name of a team. I wear my Skins gear all the time and have been in a group of Native Americans while wearing a shirt that said Redskins and the only comment I got was the "redskins sucks" (stupid cowboy fans or just do not know what they are talking about), but they were referring to the football team, not the Native component... So it will not change, and if it does I will be upset cause the name is about history of the team. We already did a change for PC reasons when we changed the words in Hail to the Redskins (the scalp em part), so we have done our part.

Danny Boy will not let it happen, he loves the team and knows the history.

[SkinEmAll]

As I said before, I just dont see this ever happening, but if they are forced to change their name, I guess I'll have to change mine too, ya know just because it implies so many degrading, barbaric, hateful,things.






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[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by SkinEmAll

As I said before, I just dont see this ever happening, but if they are forced to change their name, I guess I'll have to change mine too, ya know just because it implies so many degrading, barbaric, hateful,things.






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Good point. My last name is Cannon, I don't want to offend peace-loving hippies, so I guess I'll have to change it to Lillywhite or some such bullshit.