What name should the Washington Redskins go by now?

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Washington's football team to call itself Washington Football Team until it settles on a new name

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The Washington NFL franchise, formerly known as the Washington Redskins, is officially going to change its name to the Washington Football Team.

The new team name is effective immediately, and it will remain in place "pending adoption of a new team name," the team announced in a statement on Thursday.
The name change comes after the team faced increased pressure to change its name due to its racist connotations, and the team announced on July 13 that it would be changing the team's name.

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[+4] - Sturgis - 07/25/2020The Washington Weasels

@tsarstepan,

So many possibilities...

At first I thought maybe The Argonauts, then realized that th CFL has the hold on it with their Toronto team. If there's ever a chance of mixing NFL/AFL/CFL that might be rough.

I'm keen on naming them The Washington Aardvarks. Hey, nobody thought the Arkansas Razorbacks made sense either. And yet it has served them well.

Plus there was a military fighter aircraft named Aardvark.

Maybe The Potomacs...

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They can call themselves whatever they want just as long as they drop the offensive term football.

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"Washington Millionaires" would be fitting

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@Sturgis,

Sturgis wrote:

So many possibilities...

The Washington Filibusters; The Washington Erratas; The Washington Amendments; The Washington Ex Officios; The Washington Yield Timers; The Washington Discretionary Spenders?

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@tsarstepan,

Given the nature of the game and the team's unparallelled dee-fens-ive swarmability:

Washington Swampers

Team Song: I Can't Stand the Drain

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@tsarstepan,

The Washington Lobbyists

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@glitterbag,

The Washington Weasels

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@Sturgis,

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The Washington Weasels

hahahahahahahaha. I think we have a winner hahahahahahah

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@tsarstepan,

How about Washington P.C?

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@tsarstepan,

The Washington Wusses

Oh, crap, I accidentally thought of a good one:

The Washington Winners

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Washington Mackems.

Mackem is a nickname for someone from Sunderland, particularly the football team.

Washington is a town within the city limits. It was referred to as Wasindone in 1096.

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@izzythepush,

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...Mackems.

Makes me think of macadamia nuts. Which might work...The Washington Nuts! (hey people get your twisted minds out of the gutter!)

I thinketh your Mackems oughta rename as The Chesterleys....

Okay, I'm going, I'm going...

(tell one bad joke and ya end up branded fer life)

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@Sturgis,

There’s a Chester Lee Street just down the road. It’s a town, not a street, but there’s probably a street of that name there.

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@izzythepush,

Yeah, I learned that when I googled Sunderland
(hence the bad "joke" I attempted)

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@Sturgis,

There was a BBC documentary about the origins of words and phrases. People were asked to scour attics for oldest use of phrases like Pear Shaped.

Pear shaped never did get a satisfactory answer but Mackem did. Someone found an old football programme from 18 something or other with the phrase,
“We tack ‘em and we mack ‘em.”
Which for those of us not from Sunderland is we take them and we make them, reference to Sunderland’s industry.

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@izzythepush,

I've heard pear shaped as an unflattering way to describe a woman's figure. I not sure what we are talking about right now, have I blundered unto unusual waters?

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@izzythepush,

Washington Potomacs. b pronounced 2 wys

1 < the River (Po-TOE' -MACKs)

2< the Tribe (POT' -Ah -MACKS)

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I would suggest not worrying about their new name an buying up
merchandise with the redskins name to flip on ebay.

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@farmerman,

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...pronounced 2 wys.

Dang! I've spent my whole life pronouncing Potomac as Puh-tome-ick. No great stress on any of the syllables.

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What name should the Washington Redskins go by now?

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