Redskins Name Change
« Previous EntriesIntroducing A T-Shirt Celebrating The Washington ‘Football Team’
Friday, May 17th, 2013I’m not going to conduct a poll about it, and I’m not going to target-question American Indians, but I will venture to say some Washington football fans are uncomfortable with the team’s name. I know because I’m one of them.
So we partnered with Sneeki’s Tees, which designs awesome D.C. sports stuff, to make a T-shirt [...]
Dan Snyder’s Great Awful Quote
Thursday, May 9th, 2013Read the story over at USA TODAY Sports (image via @katzm).
Stephen Colbert: Redskins Have ‘Most Offensive Name In Sports’
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013Stephen Colbert featured Maryland congresswoman Donna Edwards last night, and he worked in a shot at her hometown Redskins:
Maryland’s 4th also includes FedEx Field, home of the Washington Redskins, the most offensive name in professional sports … other than the Arizona Asian Kids Are Good At Maths.
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Let’s Talk About That Infamous 2004 ‘Redskins’ Poll
Friday, February 22nd, 2013Another day, another round of skirmishes over the Redskins name. Today’s sally is led by Tom Garrett, founding father of a “culture and society” blog called TheAxisofEgo.com, whose post for that site got a signal boost by being re-posted as a “Special to” over on Hogs Haven.
Garrett offers a lengthy, sesquipedalian defense of the Redskins [...]
The British Name For Redskins Is Much Better Than ‘Redskins’
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013The talented funnyman behind Dave’s Art Locker has done it again, re-imagining all 32 NFL team names and logos as if they were British. Click through for all 32 (via USA TODAY Sports), and enjoy the two previous Redskins logos Dave’s done, one inspired by comics and the other inspired by Peyton Manning’s face.
It Appears The Redskins Aren’t Changing Names Anytime Soon …
Monday, February 11th, 2013The Redskins are currently leading their website with two employees at a high school that still uses the name “Redskins” for its sports teams. And guess what? They like it!
A separate but seemingly related Larry Michael propaganda video features another person from another high school that uses the nickname. I’ll warn you, though: It’s enough [...]
The Worst Argument Against Changing The Redskins’ Name
Monday, February 11th, 2013The debate over whether or not the Redskins should change their name has flared up this offseason, and while nothing is imminent, the pro-name change movement seems to be gaining momentum. And while we have made it clear that we support changing the name, there are intelligent arguments to be made to the contrary.
On [...]
‘Skins’ Wine Glasses (PHOTO)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012You may recall Mr. Irrelevant reader Michael McElroy’s awesome guest post, A Case For a ‘Skins’ Name Change. Well, here he is again.
My roommate, who knows nothing about football or really sports in general, recently got an engraving machine. My birthday was yesterday, and I guess he remembered me telling him about the “Skins” name-change [...]
DMV: ‘Anything Redskins-Related Is Not Allowed In Here’
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011I’m late on this, but Mike Wise visited the National Museum of the American Indian and found out what folks there think about “redskins.” Wise was trolling hard, but if you can read it with an open mind and still be anti-name change, I don’t know what to tell you. [Mike Wise]
Breaking down Grossman’s five [...]
A Case For a ‘Skins’ Name Change
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011Mr. Irrelevant reader Michael McElroy (@mikeyvanilli) won our first Predictions contest in uncanny fashion, so he gets to make a post. Here we go.
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I’m a Redskins fan living in Philadelphia, and thus find myself routinely getting into the same disagreements with Eagles fans. They start out with logical criticisms and taunts.
Them: “Your offensive line [...]