FedEx asks Redskins to change name

[comochiefsfan]

JUST IN: @FedEx has asked the Washington @Redskins to change its name. Here is the statement:

“We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name.“

— ABC 7 News - WJLA (@ABC7News) July 2, 2020

Here we go. I think part of the reason we’ve been safe from this kind of stuff is because the Redskins have always been a bigger target. Now that there’s pressure from sponsors Snyder is going to feel the heat like never before.

If they go down, make no mistake, the mob will come for us next.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by stevieray

Speaking of branding, when the Redskins are have the company of : Lions, Eagles, Bears Bills Titans Giants etc..all names of power and prestige...I find it hard to be considered a slight or negative image.

I get what you are saying here. When I envision "redskin", I think football, then I think of some badass warrior fighting off asshole colonists. It's taken on quite the honorable connotation I think.

But I'm not them, so whatever.

[ptlyon]

The Washington pigskin pumpers

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by loochy

But I'm not them, so whatever.

pretty much

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by stevieray

Same here.


....it won't be the same, though.

Speaking of branding, when the Redskins are have the company of : Lions, Eagles, Bears Bills Titans Giants etc..all names of power and prestige...I find it hard to be considered a slight or negative image.

Originally Posted by loochy

I get what you are saying here. When I envision "redskin", I think football, then I think of some badass warrior fighting off asshole colonists. It's taken on quite the honorable connotation I think.

But I'm not them, so whatever.

I mentioned this somewhere in the discussion, but if we step back and look at things in the big picture, team names are by definition an honor. When you name a team, you're borrowing the mascot's attributes that you want people to associate with you. Brave, strong, ferocious, tenacious, whatever. You're not going to name a team after something that you view as a negative.

So people can get offended however they want, and certainly there's a potential for different people to perceive names differently. But they simply can't argue that a team name is intentionally an insult.

(This ignores the Boaty McBoatface possibility such as the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, but that's an outlier.)

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by BDj23

Nope

It will be the Cleveland Indians then either the Chiefs or Braves.

I was being half-sarcastic. Point I was making was nothing is immune to this approach these days.


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[gblowfish]

How bout calling them the D.C. "Awakened Caucasians" or DC/AC?

[bdj23]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

I was being half-sarcastic. Point I was making was nothing is immune to this approach these days.


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Oh I know. I got your point. I was just being serious about my response. That's the only reason I actually care about the Redskins issue - eventually it will be the Chiefs issue.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

If advertisers do the same thing with the Chiefs, I'll bet they'll be satisfied enough with a logo change and a stadium policy of people not wearing headdresses and all that. And if they do go the whole nine yards and demand a name change, I guess I'll be watching Patrick Mahomes throw TDs and win Super Bowls for the Kansas City Whatevers instead of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Yeah, if forced by advertisers, get rid of the Arrowhead part of the logo. Rename the stadium Lamar Hunt stadium wouldn't be so bad as a fan.

[Ghost of Maslowski]

really looking forward to the day Monday Night Rehabilitation premieres

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I mentioned this somewhere in the discussion, but if we step back and look at things in the big picture, team names are by definition an honor. When you name a team, you're borrowing the mascot's attributes that you want people to associate with you. Brave, strong, ferocious, tenacious, whatever. You're not going to name a team after something that you view as a negative.

So people can get offended however they want, and certainly there's a potential for different people to perceive names differently. But they simply can't argue that a team name is intentionally an insult.

(This ignores the Boaty McBoatface possibility such as the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, but that's an outlier.)

[loochy]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Yeah, get rid of the Arrowhead part of the logo. Rename the stadium Lamar Hunt stadium wouldn't be so bad as a fan.

Native Americans have a monopoly on arrowheads now?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by loochy

Native Americans have a monopoly on arrowheads now?

Again, it's less about the words than about how they've been used. No one is targeting Arrowhead Water because they haven't historically used a bunch of Native American imagery. The Chiefs have, and that's why it's "on the radar."

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I mentioned this somewhere in the discussion, but if we step back and look at things in the big picture, team names are by definition an honor. When you name a team, you're borrowing the mascot's attributes that you want people to associate with you. Brave, strong, ferocious, tenacious, whatever. You're not going to name a team after something that you view as a negative.

So people can get offended however they want, and certainly there's a potential for different people to perceive names differently. But they simply can't argue that a team name is intentionally an insult.

(This ignores the Boaty McBoatface possibility such as the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, but that's an outlier.)

Context doesn't matter anymore.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by loochy

Native Americans have a monopoly on arrowheads now?

meanwhile, white people created football, see how silly it gets when you keep playing it out?

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by stevieray

meanwhile, white people created football, see how silly it gets when you keep playing it out?

It's already gotten beyond silly. They banned an episode of Golden Girls for ****s sake. Because the girls were getting a mud facial treatment at a spa and it caused an awkward misunderstanding with a black woman who wasn't wearing her glasses. It was funny but now it's racist somehow because "DUR DATS BLACKFACE!!@!! BAN IT!!"