Last Thursday, NFL owners approved the sale of the Washington Commanders. While that move felt like it may never happen as Dan Synder did all he could to sabotage this once proud franchise, it's official and with new ownership....may come yet another new name for the artist formerly known as the Washington Redskins and Football Team.
According to ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr., the new ownership group may change the name to rid themselves of any lingering Dan Synder stench. via: SI While appearing on the Rich Eisen Show, ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. took the development a step further when he revealed that the new ownership group could look to change the team’s name. Eisen bluntly asked the senior writer if he felt the idea was even conceivable. “I think there’s a pretty good chance of that to erase any part of the Snyder legacy to have a complete do-over,” Van Natta said. “I would not be surprised at all, Rich, to see a name change and a complete rebranding.”
Idk who JP Finlay is, but dude it's fucking 2023, there are odds on everything...of course Bet Online has odds for new potential team names. It's not that wild!
I fucking love this (potential) move and, frankly, think more teams should follow suit. I don't need to get into the whole racially insensitive mascots debate. Sure, Redskins was not an "n-word" level slur, like I'm not worried about typing it on DOL, but it still wasn't a nice name for a professional sports franchise or a word I'm gonna use to describe Natives. It was time to move on, but Commanders is a flat-out terrible team name. It's too clunky, Commies is the shortened version, and the logo + unis are ass (let's not forget they screwed up the years in their crest, too!). Washington completely botched this move (what else is new??). IMO it's a bottom three team name in North American Big 4 Professional Sports. In no particular order, the bottom three names are Washington Commanders, Cleveland Guardians, and New Orleans Pelicans.
But Dozo's here to help! You have a second or third chance here to get it right. People that say go back to Washington Football Team are about as boring as a book on the history of paint drying. That's lame as fuck and basically an MLS team name. You can do better. When new names were floated around, I wanted Washington Pigskins and biasedly still think it plays. You're still "The Skins," and you can easily switch the lyrics to "Hail to the Redskins." Instead of being racially insensitive, you just have to worry about pissing off animal rights activists that cry into their almond milk about using a pig carcass to make a ball (at least you're not wasting the remains!). Let's be honest, they aren't as scary. You don't have to worry about them. You could have a cool pig mascot or even a football if you wanna be boring, but surely, it's a better option than Commanders. The next best choice is Red Hogs, and it's more likely than Pigskins, although I like it for basically all the same reasons. It pays homage to the team's history and rolls off the tongue better. Hogs is a sick name. It's football AF. Most of the names on that list fucking stink. Presidents and Ambassadors are clunky, just like Commanders. Spartans makes me think of MSU. OWLS????? Washington Red Hogs is the perfect rebrand and shits on the alternatives. Look Washington, you have another lease on life; ideally, after this change, it'll can stay put for the next hundred years (or until football is outlawed/humanity collapses). Don't fuck it up! P.S. IMO, the Cleveland Guardians should've become the Cleveland Spiders, and who fucking cares about the Pelicans? It's just a terrible name, but it's an irrelevant franchise and fits them.
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