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A few years ago, I was staunchly against such a change. While I still oppose it, my stance is not as rigid as it was back then.
 
With the current, ongoing destruction of the country, a name change for the Redskins would just be the latest nail in the coffin.
And compared to the current destruction of the country, football, or a name change, is insignificant.
Trivial BS like this doesn't mean a goddamn thing right now.
But, I guess it's a distraction, for some.

Sorry. Don't mind me folks. I'm prepping for the funeral.
 
Boone....it would be easy! We're experiencing the first phase of this right now! Most people I know who follow the NFL are not suffering withdrawal symptoms. The NFL, IMO, will survive, but there will be a steady attrition of the fan base. The sport is under attack from the Left as too violent with significant health risks, parents no longer want their kids playing the sport, the conservative side of the spectrum is growing tired of the virtue signalling and core disrespect of traditional values, everyone sees how the NFL has become just another corporate giant willing to blow in any direction so long as the money train keeps moving, the players are slowly imploding the league from the inside, there are fewer and fewer long-term stars or elite teams (even the Pats are now in decline), the teams themselves do not have sustained identities, younger generations are persuing other options for their leisure time/dollars.

The societal fracturing we see now is not going away no matter who is in power - it rots away all key institutions and the NFL, NBA, etc., are not exempted from the ensuiing carnage.

The NFL is led by very mediocre folks. Godell is a fraud hauling in $40 mil a year! That rabbit is out and running. The logic of what is happening in society now will inevitably catch up to them. They too will eventually find themselves tied to the bullseye as the crosshairs on the scope increasingly swivel to sports. Look at what is going on in the streets and cities! It's not indigenous. It's funded. It's resourced. It has a strategy and ideology. It has its own brown shirts. It knows how to co-opt legitimate movements such as the rightful claims for equal justice. It is impervious to moral and legal norms. It is armed. The leadership that should be containing it or eliminating the mass criminality (including politicians) are cowards on the take. There are many other worrisome social signals of collapse from the inside.

However this all plays out, the NFL will not be the same.
 
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The plain fact to me is pro sports has gotten so fat with treasure that unlike most entertainment businesses they simply don’t relate any longer to their customers.

Sports figures are not office workers but they are entertainers like stage and film actors, musicians, artists and others.

You don’t see stage plays or films stopped during performance for performer led protests or grievances.

Again I don’t have any problem with players or coaches using their earnings to support causes they believe in.

But the thought process that as a consumer I have to be intimately involved in every issue NFL or NBA players want to protest over before, during or after games is BS.

Once you open that door there are many issues that could become public in a sports setting in the future that are protested and the legitimacy of these issues could be much less than those over police misconduct.
 
The plain fact to me is pro sports has gotten so fat with treasure that unlike most entertainment businesses they simply don’t relate any longer to their customers.

Sports figures are not office workers but they are entertainers like stage and film actors, musicians, artists and others.

You don’t see stage plays or films stopped during performance for performer led protests or grievances.

Again I don’t have any problem with players or coaches using their earnings to support causes they believe in.

But the thought process that as a consumer I have to be intimately involved in every issue NFL or NBA players want to protest over before, during or after games is BS.

Once you open that door there are many issues that could become public in a sports setting in the future that are protested and the legitimacy of these issues could be much less than those over police misconduct.

I agree in the main with everything in your post. Don't forget what happened with the play Hamilton in NYC. In my mind, if the topic of a sport, play, article, etc., isn't overtly political (i.e., in the title) I don't want to see it. Media has clever ways of doing this. I do not load golfchannel.com any longer. Once NBC bought it out I knew it was just a matter of time. And it has arrived. They post ocassional virtue signaling pieces/images that have a clear ideological backdrop - but do not engineer into the software a comments capability. They can publish their propaganda with no opportuntity for voicing different opinions. This is corrupt media in the extreme and has a very obvious purpose. But, that's our society these daze - no one wants to hear the other side. Publish a counter-vailing opinion and one is either blocked or banned. Another way, of course, for fracturing/dividing society. And it's working.
 
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Yeah as really people need to entertain or play sports. Leaving of politics out of it. So that we can all enjoy. Just my two cents worth
 
I separate out non- football issues from ones drawn from within the game.

The discussion of hiring minority coaches is an in game issue and deserves NFL discussion.

But our foreign policy with North Korea or issues with political corruption should be left on the outside.
 
I dont want to hear about either on Sundays. Just play the game you're paid for and leave the mediots and drama seekers to discuss it outside of then.
 
I separate out non- football issues from ones drawn from within the game.

The discussion of hiring minority coaches is an in game issue and deserves NFL discussion.

But our foreign policy with North Korea or issues with political corruption should be left on the outside.
I dont want to hear about either on Sundays. Just play the game you're paid for and leave the mediots and drama seekers to discuss it outside of then.


This is where I am... and this season is likely going to be flooded with public displays across all levels of sport. I don't really want to hear about it while I am watching the game. Sports unify people. On Sunday afternoon, the only color that really matters to anyone truly within the moment, is the color of the Jersey that the other guy is wearing. When your team scores, you're high-fiving ANYONE wearing a Skins jersey. You don't stop to think about who they are.... where they came from... how much they make... any of it. It goes away for a few hours every day. There are a lot of bad things going on right now in this country, so i wish more people would realize exactly how pacifying sports truly can be when we can keep those issues outside of the stadiums.... It's a national platform, so I can understand why certain people would like to use it to send a message, but I really wish personal opinions happened on personal time. Protest, live feed to your followers on instagram or facebook.... tweet til your fingers hurt, whatever you believe in.... this is America and you have a right to do that. A right that is / should be afforded to anyone who is a citizen of this country....

Throughout history, there have been events that haven taken place, and Sports have been a sanctuary during those times when healing is necessary. When Baseball came back post 9-11. Numerous tribute videos to sports players that have passed like Sean Taylor or Pat Tillman. New Orleans post Katrina. When Americans are hurting, SPORTS has brought them together, and I truly fear if the door opens, that ability to unify and heal is going to be truly lost, because those lines will be drawn in an area that has historically erased them... even if only for 3 - 4 hours.
 
Skins are starting to get more and more pressure from investors to change the name. I know its going to happen.
 
Figures too that just as they turn the corner hiring competent football minds & draft well the mob pushes this unneeded garbage.

Oh how I hope Dan doesn’t bend the knee
 
The difference between sports then and now, is that in prior years the country had politicians on both sides of the aisle that were capable of addressing issues and being thought leaders.

Today, we don't have that so it has devolved into a Twitter war of anonymous handles and radical groups whose goals are not tolerance but the imposition of their views to the exclusion of all others.

Team sports athletes are now the intermediaries. The media is going to them to ask questions they normally ask politicians, and you are seeing players becoming lightning rods.

It's a new world, but not necessarily a better one.

Why not better? Again, because it's unsustainable. Sports figures become heroes or villains to specific groups and what you will see is a break down of support for teams as players and coaches fail to satisfy everyone's need for validation.

What I will say based upon my own experience traveling the world is that intolerance, bias, gender discrimination, authoritarian seeking groups on the right and left are not unique to the United States.

Players in the Bundesliga wear 'Black Lives Matter' patches on their jerseys but in Germany only a few years ago there were riots and protests in several cities with acts of violence targeting ethnic Turks and other recent emigre minority groups from Syria and Afghanistan. In fact, violence against the former 'guest workers' from Turkey has been ongoing since the early 1990's when the German government sent a number of these workers 'home' despite living in Germany for 20 plus years and having children born in the country. I actually met a number of these Turkish deportees in Istanbul in the 2000's.

So, instead of congratulating themselves perhaps the Germans can look and see how our problems reflect back to their own recent experiences.

We have a lot of progress to make here. But the one thing I don't want to see is politicians and sports figures get up and talk about how horrible things are here, making believe that the world is composed of tolerant, rationale, freedom-loving societies and somehow the US is out of step.

The protests and calls for reform here are actually illegal in a number of our fellow nation-states around the world.

Let's admit the truth in how far we have come and how far we need to go.
 
The difference between sports then and now, is that in prior years the country had politicians on both sides of the aisle that were capable of addressing issues and being thought leaders.

Today, we don't have that so it has devolved into a Twitter war of anonymous handles and radical groups whose goals are not tolerance but the imposition of their views to the exclusion of all others.

Team sports athletes are now the intermediaries. The media is going to them to ask questions they normally ask politicians, and you are seeing players becoming lightning rods.

It's a new world, but not necessarily a better one.

Why not better? Again, because it's unsustainable. Sports figures become heroes or villains to specific groups and what you will see is a break down of support for teams as players and coaches fail to satisfy everyone's need for validation.

What I will say based upon my own experience traveling the world is that intolerance, bias, gender discrimination, authoritarian seeking groups on the right and left are not unique to the United States.

Players in the Bundesliga wear 'Black Lives Matter' patches on their jerseys but in Germany only a few years ago there were riots and protests in several cities with acts of violence targeting ethnic Turks and other recent emigre minority groups from Syria and Afghanistan. In fact, violence against the former 'guest workers' from Turkey has been ongoing since the early 1990's when the German government sent a number of these workers 'home' despite living in Germany for 20 plus years and having children born in the country. I actually met a number of these Turkish deportees in Istanbul in the 2000's.

So, instead of congratulating themselves perhaps the Germans can look and see how our problems reflect back to their own recent experiences.

We have a lot of progress to make here. But the one thing I don't want to see is politicians and sports figures get up and talk about how horrible things are here, making believe that the world is composed of tolerant, rationale, freedom-loving societies and somehow the US is out of step.

The protests and calls for reform here are actually illegal in a number of our fellow nation-states around the world.

Let's admit the truth in how far we have come and how far we need to go.

Every single person I've talked to about current events ends up with me giving them a more global perspective of societies around the world. People are so encouraged to stay in their comfort zone any more that they have no idea how the rest of the world thinks, and it makes them extremely foolish, causing even more oppression (no matter how much they state they are fighting it).

Lots of self proclaimed geniuses, not enough realizing learning is constant if you truly wish to be knowledgeable. I really appreciate the perspective you have stated here.
 
For what it is worth, I cried for 15 minutes this afternoon because the reality is that my team (the most important thing to me outside of my health and family) is being stripped from my life after 34 years of fandom. Does the fact that I am now offended count for anything?
 
I just hope the reality of a change is that the result is different than Bullets/Wizards.

A team that won the NBA title and went to the Finals another 2 times in DC lost its identity and much of its fan base thereafter.

Wizards signified nothing and the other choices like Sea Dogs were a joke.

The new name has to represent well and not be just a name picked out of a hat.

I just find it ironic that a former 1985 Chicago Bear LB is front and center in picking a new name for a Washington franchise.
 
Hoping against hope that functioning brains can somehow defeat the hollow-headed , I'll wait for something to actually happen, either way, and then render my opinion, and response.

I know you can't wait.
 
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