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Red Wolves, with fans howling in the stands after big plays? Such a missed opportunity.
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The numbers on the helmets was cool, an old school feel. The 'W' is just generic.
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Meh, that's so DC.
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They shouldn't use American Indian names in sports. Sports isn't the place to "Keep Native Americans alive." However, if they were to honor native Americans they should be more like the Seattle Seahawks and actually respect their culture or the Florida State Seminoles who work with the local tribes.Silverphin likes this. -
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I watched a Pat MaCafee clip on this, and they were chanting "Let's go Commies!" since most people won't bother to say "let's go commanders". That's probably going to be a thing, making it more racist and hateful than the Redskins by far.
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UH1 Iroquois
CH37 Mojave
CH47 Chinook
OH58 Kiowa
UH60 Blackhawk
AH64 Apache
RAH66 Comanche
Yes, this retired soldier is showing off lol…but I find it so incredible that I agree with you completely on the Washington Redskins name. A lot of history destroyed in the name of not offending the un-offended…only those who feel guilty for feeling guilty.
The Commanders?
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I really don't understand how people don't get why Washington's previous name was offensive. There have been many Native Americans who said that Redskin is a slur.
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Also, I already looked it up. I don't care. It really doesn't matter why something happened in the 1930s.MikeHoncho and texanphinatic like this. -
Anyway, like the Cleveland Guardians baseball team name change, and frankly the Titans of many moons ago, it's pleasant in a very generic way. Like the kind of team name that would be suggested by a sports videogame when you start a new team, or that you would find in a movie or something. I personally thought the Redtails was the best choice, but I thought in general keeping the red part would have been neat. Red Wolves, Redhawks.MikeHoncho likes this. -
Pretty cool name but holy crap was that ad or whatever just absolutely way too dramatic! That music was stupid! I'm just getting older and I can't stand that crap. "DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN WE ARE COMMANDERS" I get it, you gotta try and hype people up. Ron Rivera screaming in the locker room was when it really got stupid. It is a cool name, but I think Commando's would have been way cooler. I mean, such a subtle difference Commander vrs Commando, but way cooler sounding...."Terry McLaurin goes FULL COMMANDO IN THE END ZONE." They should just go ahead and sign Antonio Brown right now.
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So by completely disregarding the fact the Washington Redskins were named to HONOR the native Americans on the team, including the first NFL Native American coach in Lone Star Dietz erases a historical fact that a people who the first in America and the LAST to receive US citizenship. That little eraser to get rid of a name that some find offensive also erases the reminder of a people who were truly offended by this nation and it’s history.
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If it was named the Washington Lone Stars, that would have been cool. Why didn't they rename it to that?
And if you are not offended by things that happened in history, then you are not growing as a person. We should strive to be better now than we were in the past. Humanity should always strive to be better and grow.
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