As a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys, anything to screw over the Washington Redskins, I am all for it.

To your average NFL fan they probably thought the Redskins already played in Washington D.C.. Nope, the team actually plays in Landover, Maryland. It's near the Virginia and Maryland border. It's about a thirty minute drive to get to D.C. from Fedex Field. Well Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, is actually trying to move the team back into the city limits.

What is crazy to me, that stadium is not that old at all. It's eighteen years old, which for a stadium is nothing. The lease for the stadium isn't even up until 2026. Well the old RFK stadium where the Redskins used to play in D.C. is government land now. The team wants to build a new stadium there. Well the government is not willing to give up that land, until the Redskins change their name.

According to the Post, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell informed Washington's mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, that the federal government likely would not permit the construction of a new stadium with the team's current name in place. Jewell has long been a critic of the team's name. “Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the ‘Blackskins’ or the ‘Brownskins’ or the ‘Whiteskins,’" she said in an ABC interview last fall. "So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different."

We will see how it all plays out, but I figure within the next decade, the Redskins will be changing their name. Some people have thrown some good ideas out there for a new name. I think Warriors would be good, but I hate teams that use the same name that another professional sport uses (Golden State Warriors). Washington Renegades is another good one, that way they could keep the R logo.

 

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