I say generational not because I think it will have some massive effect.
It's simply because this name...Dan Snyder's shined-up turd...will now endure forever. The thought of people using Commanders 50yrs from now, 100yrs from now, whatever...it becoming the history of this team forever tied to...
Well, i certainly dont have it all figured out, and have never claimed to.
I do know what a shit-sandwich looks like though....and this one was prepared extra special by Dan himself. Some people have acclimated to the taste and some never will. Both are bound to happen.
But to answer your...
As to pissing off the "entire fanbase"...I didn't really say that. I actually acknowledged that he takes arrows either way.
And, as to the future effect of the name on the the franchise...I simply sited that the decision by Harris, which is a generational commitment, was made on the back of a...
Feels like the "he couldn't have done any better" and "he was going to take arrows either way" POV is a bit of a losers mentality.
He could have done better, he should have done better, and sure you take some arrows either way...but, less if the name wasn't actual trash or borderline racist. In...
Understanding it will make zero difference...for anyone looking to share your opinion with the team:
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Seems logical if it was rebuffed by the nfl the team would acknowledge that there was engagement in the process with the league that resulted in a no go.
As you point out it hasn't been stated explicitly, but it sure doesn't seem like that's what's happened here.
I'd rather be wide awake during a colonoscopy than have to live with Commanders till the day I die.
But, I'd also never want to go back to Redskins.
In the end it's just so disappointing Harris didn't have the balls to make a tough call and stuck with the status quo.
I always figured I'd outlive Dan and get to live through the team being passed to his boy, Gerry. Generational Snyderdom 😆.
I get that some people can accept this....and some of us will just have to.
Doesn't change the fact that this was an opportunity to cleanse this org of the wet fart that...
There's a little recency bias there...I'd say it also holds some of the worst.
It reminds me of Snyd-dogs sexual harassment era, derpy Ron Rivera, and general incompetence as much as anything.
To me, being told by new ownership that the putrid legacy of Dan Snyder will hang over this team literally forever feels pretty definitive.
But hopefully, we're in for more of those positive defining moments on the field.
I'd say the issue to address is asking fans to use their bodies as billboards for the pet-name (that most ppl dont like anyways) of the loser sex-pest former owner.
It's maybe kind of in the same vein of folks that wouldn't drive a Tesla if they think the owner is a twat.
Commies will always...
Regardless of the fashion sense applied to it, the brand for this team is now and forever Commanders.
And, it will always stink of the cheap incompetence that typified the Snyder-era. It just is what it is...but, now it's forever.
People buy the gear because it's what exists if they want team gear.
But, I have yet to meet someone in real life who actually likes the name or branding that we are now stuck with forever.
The right decision does not foist the lazy, cheap, pet-name of the loser, sex-pest, former-owner on an entire fan community in perpetuity.
Just my opinion, of course.
Up until now, so have I.
But, like I mentioned somewhere else...Harris isn't infallible. He's presided over the abject failure of "The Process" with the 76ers.
This won't be the last bad decision he makes. And, as a lifelong diehard Washington fan, current ownership making a flatly terrible...
After thinking about this a little, one of the things that it suggests to me is that while Josh Harris may have grown up a diehard fan...for the last 25yrs he's been no more than a casual.
Which is fine, but I did hope we were getting someone with a more authentic connection to the fanbase...
The lamest part of the name and #TakeCommand may be that they lifted it straight from a defunct AAF team...because Synder was cheap and lazy
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