only one NFL team has a racial slur for a name

[Eagle In Ohio]

Well done, sir

Let me ask you this ... answer yes or no ... no equivocating.

Would you go up to a nice little old Native American lady on a reservation and say: Hey redskin, how are you and all the other redskins doing here on this reservation?"

EDITED TO ADD:

Actually don't answer the question.

You seem like a decent person.

No decent person with any sense of common courtesy would do that.

And that's the end of the discussion about whether an NFL team should have that term as its name.

Well done.....

[Mississippi-Fan]

When I was on the "Chief Halftown" show!

I never thought to ask him how he felt about the Washington Redskins name.
Ah stah sah sessaway!

[jimbo]

I have a solution ...

Keep the Redskins name.
move the team to Boise Idaho.
change the team logo to:



Problem solved.

[Irish George]

if you don't get what the uproar is about...

I don't get the uproar over the name from the perspective of Skins fans, to be honest. Some folks who say if Snyder changes the name, they'll stop being fans, everyone is attacking us, etc.

To me, the important part is the Washington part; I was born in the D.C. area and they're my team. Did any of you become Eagles fans because the mascot was an Eagle? No. Most of you, I would assume, became Eagles fans because you were born in Philly or the surrounding areas that are generally full of Eagles fans.

I just can't bring myself to care about the name being changed because it's not the half of the name that's important. They could be the Washington Warriors, Generals, RedTails (though that name blows) and I wouldn't care, so long as they're Washington.

Now as to whether the name should be changed, I haven't done nearly enough research to make an informed decision. For every media journalist spouting off (and being derided for white guilt, fairly or not) someone else is trotting out a study that says Native American's aren't offended, and linguists are debating the origin of the word back and forth. I've seen very little proven as a definitive fact one way or the other, though I understand people like DQ using it as a hammer, it's a way to tweak the fan base.

So keep it, change it, means nothing to me either way, so long as Washington is represented.

Im not sure why you cant understand the uproar. Native Americans have made that clear for decades now. And if it "means nothing" to you either way, why would you not err on the side of not being offensive to America's native people?

[Irish George]

I think he asked it that way because...

By the way, I don't know. You're the one who used to be an Anglican and then converted. Why don't you tell me?

"is the Pope Catholic?" would be a cliche.

[Irish George]

Oh Nay, Tribal Members

I never thought to ask him how he felt about the Washington Redskins name.
Ah stah sah sessaway!

Oh Nay

[Kelly Green]

If You Have Half A Brain I Don't Have To Tell You

The answer is a foregone conclusion, Einstein.

[Kelly Green]

A Minor Point Of Order

Offered as a teaching tool for the younguns who never had the chance to get to know the Chief as we did.

Central Bucks East's boys swimming team had t-shirts made several years ago -- a lot of teams do that. The back of their shirt contained one thing:

It said, "Ees da sa sussaway" -- I never knew how it was spelled. Like you, IG and yours truly, East's coach was a Tribal Member. Chief Halftown's mother suggested it as a way for him to tell the guys in the control room to start the cartoon. In the Seneca language, it means, "Let's get it started" and the coach saw it as a perfect team motto for that season.

The Chief was an excellent bowler, by the way. I saw him during an appearance at a bowling center on old Route 1 in Levittown. The place was mobbed with kids and their parents.

[dusty41188]

Pretty soon they will say the Cleveland browns is a racist name I'm waiting for that one

[Phoward12]

Im not sure why you cant understand the uproar. Native Americans have made that clear for decades now. And if it "means nothing" to you either way, why would you not err on the side of not being offensive to America's native people?

Read it again man, I said I don't understand the uproar from the perspective of Skins fans, because I don't personally care if the name changes. It's not going to affect my cheering for the team, because the Washington part is the important part. The Washington Post ran something awhile back, a contest of sorts where artists designed new logos for possible name changes; some of them looked pretty neat.

Snyder might lose a few people from the fanbase, but I he'd make a mint from new merchandise. Someone else said this already, but financially, there's plenty of incentive even if he chooses to ignore the protesters.

[JuTMSY4]

Dope

Pretty soon they will say the Cleveland browns is a racist name I'm waiting for that one

Stop it

[JuTMSY4]

By the way, I don't know. You're the one who used to be an Anglican and then converted. Why don't you tell me?

"is the Pope Catholic?" would be a cliche.

Is the aramingo slathered in mayo?

[slag]

That's moronic.

[wynnron123]

The Redskins have been around for 76 years.

Before they were called the Boston Braves. So after 76 years with the Redskins name does anybody actually believe they will ever change it?

[Eagle Road]

Just curious, how many Caucasians on here would care if the team was called the Pale Faces?