Josh Harris Speaks... Commanders is permanent name.

I have been more than impressed with his stewardship so far.
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 decision feels almost nostalgic 😆.
 
Not sure if anyone already said this, but it feels like the actual dagger here was the culture change.

DQ got the players to buy in and create this Commanders Code they all talk about. They live it and breathe it and their play on the field this year made it MEAN something. Not just to them in the building, but to us as fans.

There used to be, in the past, something we all referred to as ‘Redskins Football’ and it felt like a badge of honor. That we know the team would be tough in the trenches, run the ball tough, play tough. It was a throwback to the Hogs, to the Diesel, to the Joe Gibbs era.

For decades since we’ve not been that team. Redskins football was a memory. WFT football was a non-entity. Commanders was a name not an identity.

But this year the team GAVE the commanders an identity. We’re exciting and we don’t quit. It’s a brotherhood (another catchword they’ve been using all season!)

In some ways this has been the biggest change and the biggest contributor toward success. And will be moving forward. Free Agents are going to want to come here because we’re not a laughing stock any more. We’re the Commanders, and love or hate the name, it’s now beginning to MEAN something bigger.

Snyder may have given us this crappy name, but this year the players and coaches TOOK it by force and made it mean something. I hope it continues to mean something moving forward so that in a couple of decades, with some Superbowls under our belt, we can look back, with a smile, and remember JD, Scary Terry, and Dan Quinn and the era of ‘Commanders Football’.
 
I think it was the right decision. Sometimes, the right decision just isn't one we like.

I agree. Through the passage of time this will become a non-issue. Even those that are most angry will eventually move on. We have not been the Redskins for 5 seasons already. If the team starts wearing uniforms that look more like the classic ones, a brand new state of the art stadium is built at RFK, and we build a strong winning tradition not just a sporadic winning season here and there…eventually even the most upset people today will let it go.
 
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.

Sticking fans with Snyders trash, literally forever, because you had a single good year of jersey sales on the back of JD5 is just stupid. Those jerseys sold because of JD5, not some sudden acceptance of maybe the worst name in pro sports.

There is a very short list of folks with $6B+ laying around. The last time we found a rich guy with an authentic connection to the team, we got 25 years of complete hell. For what it’s worth, his partners in Rales and Ein have a rather authentic connection themselves.

It’s not just JD5 jerseys selling. It’s Commanders gear in general. Look around, it’s everywhere now.

Sure, all it takes is for the play on the field to fall off, but we saw that play out as the Redskins, where folks quit buying and wearing gear, referring to them as the Deadskins, Snyderskins, etc.

As for worst name in pro sports, the Browns, Dolphins, and Packers alone in the NFL are worse. Another 20 are just as generic if not more.
 
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.
Why just stop at the name? Lets get rid of all the players drafted under Snyder too.
 
Snyder was a fan growing up, went to games, had a belt buckle. Harris is definitely all in on this team. I have been more than impressed with his stewardship so far.

Honesty, I do not believe Snyder was ever a fan. I just don't. Snyder, like Harris, is slightly older than me. I think he had a casual awareness of them during the George Allen era and then jumped on bandwagon during the Gibbs era. No evidence, just a vibe. I have no doubt his dad took him to a game once. But did he collect cards, watch Redskins Sidelines, listen to Ken Beatrice, and know the players' names? I'm sorry, but I just do not believe it. He would hardly be the only person who ever embellished his past.

I would speculate Harris, now owning 3 different teams in different areas sees the Skins more as a business unit than something emotional or nostalgic.
 
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.
I don't think we are stuck with the branding forever. Look how many redesigns of Redskins there were over the decades.
 
I don't think we are stuck with the branding forever. Look how many redesigns of Redskins there were over the decades.
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.
 
I'm not going to try to argue you out of your feelings. You are right to feel what you feel. I hope you find peace with the name and joy with the team.
 
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 answer lies in your post. At the end of the day if people are going to buy the gear because “it’s what exists” than what is really the issue that ownership needs to address? Hurt feelings?

I firmly believe that if no money was being made on the Commanders brand they would change. They are making money.
 
I think it was the right decision. Sometimes, the right decision just isn't one we like.
Totally agree, I don’t like the name Commanders as much as the next man, but the chances of getting another bad name was/is always in the back of my mind.

Unfortunately life isn’t always gran, and we don’t get what we want… let’s put a few more seasons of what we got this season and maybe a division title, a SB appearance and the name of this team could be the piggy wiggles and I highly doubt it’s a concern…. Winning does breath a lot of good things and hides a lot of negative things.

I do however wish he would have just from the jump stated the name Commanders was here to stay, kinda felt a bit lead on to think there was going to be a change. And for sure uniforms should be changed to resemble at least a bit of our past…. He can give us that right?
 
The answer lies in your post. At the end of the day if people are going to buy the gear because “it’s what exists” than what is really the issue that ownership needs to address? Hurt feelings?

I firmly believe that if no money was being made on the Commanders brand they would change. They are making money.
Exactly, isn’t the Black JD5 the #1 selling jersey in the NFL? … this was a major factor as to the name staying as you stated
 
The answer lies in your post. At the end of the day if people are going to buy the gear because “it’s what exists” than what is really the issue that ownership needs to address? Hurt feelings?

I firmly believe that if no money was being made on the Commanders brand they would change. They are making money.
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 stink of Doofus Dan and that's a stank I just can't literally put on myself.
 
We all can speculate also about limitations, and hurdles, that they may be facing to change it again. We don't know. We know what the 'rulebook' says, but that's us as fans reading some policy the NFL has in place.

For all we know, Goodell (and other owners) is strongly against it and advising that way. There likely are factors involved that nobody on the outside of a select few people even understand and know about.

I'm not going to look at this decision as a defining moment in Harris' ownership, because we just don't know. We know it's not changing, but the possibilities of why it's not chaning is so long it's almost impossible to hash it out.
 
Listening to people call into 106.7 this morning, I don't think people are quite aware of how intensive this process is. Granted people who call into the radio, generally, are not the brightest bulbs. And then you have Drab T-shirt who might be the dumbest person alive.
 
I'm not going to look at this decision as a defining moment in Harris' ownership, because we just don't know.
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.
 

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