Washington Redskins (A.K.A. Commanders)
 

All this time...and the best they could come up with was Commanders ??

Wow

Just saying

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Commando - Wikipedia

Commandos would be better and more appropriate as the coach and other employees call a lot of the plays along with the quarterback. You do not have a lot of leaders on a football field at game time. Maybe off the field but it would be chaos if a lot of NFL players were managing the plays at the same time.

Just plain "Washington" was better.

give it time; they will find something wrong with this new name, too

I'm waiting for the objection to the "Master's Tournament". Perhaps, like the Redskins, they could go for "The Augusta Golf Tournament". Then later change it to "The Augusta Azaleas" :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Commanders is biased against enlisted military members. Should have named them, the "Washington Swamp Things."

Should have just dropped the 'Redskins' part of the name.
Commanders is degrading to the commanded.
CLM. (Commanded lives matter!):icon_wink:

Talk to an American Indian, vast majority have no problem with Redskin in the name.

Ridiculous changing all of these names.

Wash football
 

Already the Dan Snyder haters have begun calling the team "The Commies."

Next in line will be the "Chiefs" for the Woke brains.

Not without the Cleveland Indians to balance it:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Then, the Atlanta Braves should be changed by the Washington cowards:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Not fair to call them the chiefs discriminates against the lowly Indian Braves

Nah. The Alligators would complain. It's pretty humiliating even for an alligator (or turtle, or mosquito, or whateverthehellitis that is being referred to), to be called a "thing".

There'd be riots and everything!

Should have kept the name and changed the mascot.

Exactly! Of course, that would be discriminating against the White Potatoes or the Sweet Potatoes. Although, they could have left the "skins" part and just added "Fore" on the front.............:1rotfl:

It seems that most sports team names have something to do with the city or area in which the team is located. Yes, there are some that are named after animals but think of the Yankees, Tampa Bay Lightning, New England Patriots, San Fran 49ers, Boston Celtics, Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks.

Why not something like the Washington Congress, Presidents, Monuments.

Commanders doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything.

Well, the "Commander" in Chief does live in DC... :icon_wink:

Bleh. My team no longer exists. RIP.

Should have changed the name to the pigskins. Why not, then they could still simply be called the skins for short. Oh, I forgot, that would be offensive to the swine community. Never mind.

I'm all for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chief's having their names changed. Not for any political or racial reason; just to not have to hear or see the tomahawk chop.

Don’t watch ! GO BRAVES chop til you drop. ( That’s World Series champion Braves)

All of the name changes are a joke. These were complements. Redskins Indians etc

Commanders? Maybe better than Ensigns, or ButterBar Boys?

At first I thought maybe The Washington Chichen S___, but really they should be The Washington Pacifiers.

If Washington fans had any principles, they would have stopped watching that junk years ago. Teams can do whatever they want while the stupid public keeps spending money on it.

Most fitting would be : Muckrackers.

Carpetbaggers?

How bout Carpetbaggers?

Minority here: I like the name. Commanders. "Take Charge - Achieve Objectives - Win"

What made me laugh is that when they revealed the name, they showed a new logo stating "Washington Commanders", and in the logo it says Established 1932.

That is completely incorrect. You gave up your 1932 designation when you caved and pulled the actual team name that was established in 1932. It should read established 2022.

HTTR from a 55 year fan. Will always be Redskins to me. Only change needed was ownership.

Good Lord, don't give anybody any ideas! :icon_wink:

maybe it's me, but i see the Redskins as a positive name, i never saw any 'race' in it. to be as powerful & strong as an indian is a good thing.

Win? Foreign concept to them

I thought they would change their name because of the negative connotation. I really thought they would change it to The "Virginia Redskins".

Redskins
 

Maybe commanders due to our president being commander in chief, don't you know!!

Winner!
 

ROTFL

This post can be closed - we have a winner.

Commanders! :1rotfl: How long before someone complains that term is offensive. They should have not even bother with it and left it the way it was.

They renamed my beloved Cleveland Indians the Guardians!

Tired of all the woke/PC mess
 

They shouldn’t have changed the name anyway. For decades teams have had names like this and not a person had issues with it.
Now this wokeness movement has come along & can’t do anything without trying not to “offend” anyone.
I’m of Irish decent & the Boston Celtics have been a favorite team of mine going back to the Larry Bird days & that’s still one of my favorite basketball teams of mine but I’m not crying because they use Irish themes for their team/merchandise. Goodness what’s the harm?
Don’t give into this woke/PC garage & just have fun watching a game, it offends me to have to put up with this movement, why don’t those who started it think about that?