http://www.businessweek.com/articles...nfl-team#r=rss

Seriously, this was an actual attempt to rename the franchise. First comment sounded a lot like The Skinbasket:

Quote Originally Posted by Skinbasket clone
I don't know where to begin..... 1) the Roc's, when they share overlap with the Ravens is stupid 2) the Washington metro has NEVER used tokens and Metro's.... really. 3) Leopards is just ridiculous 4) skins with a ridiculous tribal tattoo background, I can't believe you idiots get paid for these ideas, why don't we just cut to the chase and call them the douchbags

I grew up in DC and environs and I've been a Redskins fan since I realized football was a thing. I get it, if an expansion team came out with the name Redskins they would rightfully be screamed off the map, because it is offensive. The thing people seem to ignore is that this team has had that nickname for about 80 years. Here's the other thing that bothers me; it used to be people measured intent into their outrage. Neither the organization or the fans intend for it to be offensive, we don't use it as an
epitaph, we dont have a guy in a native american costume running around, we don't do the ridiculous chop or condescending indian chants, we don't even reference scalping in our 80 year old fight song. Give us a break. If there is any group that's been marginalized to an even quasi comparable level to that of the native americans it's washingtonians who don't even have congressional representation, don't have direct control over their city budget because it has to approved by congress, and have to put up with the mouth breathers you idiots elect and send to our city so we can babysit them for 2-4-6 year terms respectively. And we don't even get a casino priviledges. If you've got enough time on your hands to really work yourself up into a phony outrage about something so banal and trivial then seriously, find a hobby. Take up knitting, or I don't know, smash your head repeatedly into a wall, whatever, just shut up and leave us alone
QFT.
The absurd 'new' ideas: