This would be the worst possible time to celebrate monuments, so it'd be funny if they did.

I always thought the best solution would be to keep the name and throw a whole ton of money at Indians to make their lives better. Given that most Indians get by these days as vice merchants, supplying white people with gambling and cheap smokes, maybe they'd come out ahead if everyone went on picturing them as noble warriors instead.

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Let's make no mistake, this is just to appease white women and male liberals with low libidos (functionally white women). It has nothing to do with making natives lives better at all even a little bit.

Washington Centaurs.

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Everyone who owns Redskins paraphernalia will have to throw it out and replace it with the new name, and everyone who never liked the Redskins anyway will buy the new stuff to show their approval of finally winning the "Washington NFL Team" war they've been waging. $$$$$

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Washington Dentures
Washington Wigs
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Washington Revolution
Washington Snipers
Washington Hogs
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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Washington Whigs
Washington Apples
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Warshington Dishes

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It seems odd they would include "Redskins" so many times in their statement if they intend to change it.

They are apparently unhappy with FedEx field and would like to terminate that deal, and if they are going to play chicken with Nike they may have no intention of actually changing it.

It's going to be Redtails.

They should go for what's popular now: Washington Hamiltons

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It’s really unfortunate FedEx wasn’t aware of the team name before they put their dollars towards the naming rights of the stadium . Clear bait and switch by the Redskins. Fuckin’ Indian givers .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I dont think they'll wind up changing it.

The fact that they've gone this far makes me think they already have (and it'll be Redtails), but it would be typical Redskins for them to make a complete mess of a situation and get everyone pissed at Snyder.

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Yeah seems like it's a foregone conclusion that they'll rename the team.

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Washington Deep State
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If they change it to Redtails, I do like the potential logos I've seen

What about the Washington Wizards? Clearly needs to be changed

In 1915, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were created along the lines of a fraternal organization. The highest-ranking leader of that latter-day organization was the Imperial Wizard. National officers were styled "Imperial" officers. State or "Realm" officers were styled "Grand" officers. A "Grand Dragon", for example, was the highest-ranking Klansman in a given state.

Washington Fightin’ Irish.

Nobody has a problem with that.

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You know me like that.

Now that I think about it, they can't keep the burgundy and gold and a name that starts with Red_____, can they? Otherwise, their fans, who have presumably been Redskins fans for generations, will go on using the forbidden word. Don't you have to burn it all down to the ground and start over?

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Don't you think that is going to happen no matter what name they go with?

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--yet I can't look away."

It'd be a lot harder to continue if you name them the DC Douglasses and put them in uniforms of Black Lives Matter Black and Elizabeth Warren Failed Campaign Green. Abandon all ties, declare it a new franchise on paper like the Baltimore Ravens, don't even honor the Super Bowls anymore.

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Washington Liberty

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Mystics.

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He should go with the Washington Americans. Burgundy and white uniforms with some blue trim on the helmet.

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The problem with getting rid of Redskins, you open the door to more name changes

Blackhawks
Braves
Indians
Chiefs, etc. will all be on the table.

Then, do we start changing names of cities and states named after Indians?

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

My mamma called 'em Redskins, I'ma call 'em Redskins.

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People will still be offended.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Tbh, I'd change them to the Red Hawks and go with the "R" logo they have used in the past.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Problem? That's the plan. You just got the order wrong. Indians are next, then Braves, then Chiefs and Blackhawks (not enough people care about the NHL, lol). The line on the Hawks used to be "well, they do it respectfully, it's not like they call themselves the Redskins." You won't hear that anymore.

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People will always be offended. Taking meaningless offense is our true national pastime, Vegas just hasn't figured out how to structure gambling on it.

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And that's why the Redskins should stay. Eventually, Hispanics will be offended by the Cleveland Browns.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

It's not as if we as a nation rolled out of bed this morning and realized "whoa, a team called the Redskins is mad racist!" People have been uncomfortable with this for decades. The American Indian Movement was occupying Alcatraz in the name of Indian rights in the 1970s; are we to believe the issue of the Redskins never came up?

The way I made my peace with it was by realizing that language mutates and evolves, and that to the extent that "redskin" was an racial slur in active circulation in the past, it isn't one anymore, and has come to mean nothing more than "a player for DC's NFL team." People want to equate it with [BLEEP], [BLEEEEP], and of course, most infamously, [BLEEEEEEEEEP] with the R, but I don't think it's on that level as much as people may wish it to be (which is frankly kind of weird, trying to will a slur into use). I think that dressing up as Indians should be strictly prohibited at any games involving Indian-named teams, and that teams should make real financial commitments to Indian reservations, not just throwing money at NGOs to write papers about things.

Is this a perfect solution? No, but we've had a long time to do something about this and we didn't do it, and to be quite honest, I'm tired of hoarding all these tiny little cultural victories when we're supposed to be fighting for economic victories. Remember healthcare? We wanted it? Now we're never getting it? But at least people in computer science won't use master/slave anymore and the Washington Redskins are gone. I can die with a smile on my face, and by my calculations, a lot sooner than was expected of me ten years ago.

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