Considering they lost the trademark and lost massive amounts of sponsorships, it doesn't make fiscal sense to go back.
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It’d be really funny if the team just went “no” and then packed up and moved somewhere else
Washington orange skin pedophiles.
i wonder when and if the US will become a democracy where not 1 person can dictate absolutely everything. you know, like in north korea.
Managed democracy
In the confusion, the Commanders decided to change their name to the Washington Epsteins because they knew that Trump was only happy around his late best friend Jeffy Epstein.
The cultural revolution....
This is the small government conservatives have been dreaming of.
Can't get much smaller than just the one senile, easily-bribed pedophile rapist. Touché.
Orange-painted childfucker took it personally.
He's trying so hard to pivot off the Epstein files.
Maybe everyone should remember why they changed.
Dan Synder sexually harrassed and discriminated against the cheerleaders and other female staff. He would make his cheerleaders rub up and ask them to fuck his buddies. A real piece of shit!
Like most of the NFL owners, he got away with it. Just paid them off. Trump's kind of people.
Everytime Trump tries to misdirect people, it leads to other rapist. He can't get away from them.
Just said that in a thread about the plastic straw thing...
We're going to see a flurry of shit because they're desperate to change the topic to anything.
He might go real crazy and legalize weed or something too, something that regardless of anything else can be spun as a "win" to the population at large.
Yeah just the other day he was asked about this football team name. And he was like “eh I don’t recall care.”
Now he has an opinion.
I would love to go see the New York Giants play the Washington Epstein Papers
The Washington Didnt Kill Himselfs
The press office for the Washington Commanders should totally post something like this on Twitter.
That’s cool n shit but he raped kids.
I really liked when they were "Washington Football Team" for a season. Now that's a name i can root for
GO FOOTBALL TEAM!
If Washington is supposed to be the capital of the U.S., Red White and Blue makes sense to be their colors. The Washington Sentinels had it right.
I vote "The Washington Sportsballs"
I'm from Cleveland. We had the "Cleveland Indians".
Now we have the "Cleveland Guardians".
There was a period where they announced the name change coming up, but hadn't decided on a name.
I was like "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not be the Cleveland Rockers".
But some people were calling for the Cleveland Spiders.
And I saw one person who wanted the "Cleveland Municipal Baseball Team". Or the Muni's for short.
I said "As much as I hate the Rockers, or the Spiders, the Cleveland Municipal Baseball Team might just be the most boring team name I've ever heard.
Me personally? I wanted the team to buy a local radio station. 100.7 WMMS. The Buzzard. They even have a kickass buzzard mascot that dates back to the 1970s. It's something that would be old, but also new. I'd be able to get behind replacing Chief Wahoo with this face. And 100.7 is already where they broadcast Indians/Guards games anyways. Could have rebranded as The Cleveland Buzzards. And since they own the radio station, their jersys/logos would have been local advertising for the radio station which plays rock.
Used to be a cool radio station, but like all other radio, iheartmedia swooped in, bought it, and stripped out all identity, stripped out the on site DJs, and replaced it all with a national playlist. Which plays the same songs, and the same commercials at the same times.
This used to be rock and roll, do cocaine on the air and rock out all night! Now it's corporate bullshit with a nostolgic logo preserving the hollowed out husk of a corpse of what used to be great radio.
......oh, right. We were talking about trump, and I went on a rant.
Could be worse. I love my Toronto Raptors but really? Raptors? I mean I get it it was the 90's and it was a hugely popular movie but could they not have picked a more timeless and culturally relevant name? Use the original Huskies for example?
Nah we gonna do a dinosaur from Jurassic Park.
FML
If it makes you feel better, rapors were real dinosaurs. They didn't actually come from the movie/book Jurassic Park.
We have The Cavaliers. A name that everyone agrees is shortened to The Cavs, because nobody knows what the hell a cavalier even is. So we just say the cavs, and move on with our lives.
My favorite movie is Jurassic Park. No seriously, check my post history. There's 3 Jurassic Park references just from Saturday alone.
So, I'm authorizing a trade deal. Cleveland retains the 2016 NBA finals win, and all assosiations from the past of Labron James. Because quite frankly, I'd be lynched for taking that away from Cleveland. It's like....all we got. Our hopes and dreams relies on the fact that one time we won a championship. It might happen again. So, we retain that history in this trade.
Outside of that, Cleveland becomes the Cleveland Raptors, Toronto becomes The Toronto Cavaliers.
Deal?
I still wish they would've done the Spiders, but as I understood it, even setting aside the "literally worst record in pro baseball" thing, there was some weird licensing shit.
We have an AHL hockey team here in Cleveland. The Cleveland Monsters. Back in the 1990s, there was a different hockey team. The Cleveland Lumberjacks. And back in the 1930s-1970s (as well as a short lived reboot in 2003-2005) we had another AHL hockey team called the Cleveland Barons.
So in 2006, when they announced Cleveland would be getting an AHL hockey team, everybody said "BRING BACK THE LUMBERJACKS!!!" Well, a couple of problems there. The Lumberjacks were never part of the AHL. They were part of the (at the time) recently defunct IHL. Completely different league. So, you can't "bring back" the AHL Cleveland Lumberjacks, because they never existed.
Which is the case for the Cleveland Spiders. You can't bring back the American League Cleveland Spiders, because they were part of the American Assosiation. When AA folded, the Spiders moved to the National League, which at the time was it's own seperate league. The formation of what we know as the MLB didn't start until 1903, and the Spiders were defunct by 1899.
So working within the context of what was happening at the time, the American League and the National League were two different seperate competing leagues with no connection to each other at all. Kind of like how the UFL today is not in any way connected to the NFL. Except that the AL and NL were much closer in size and popularity than UFL and NFL.
So, you can't bring back the AL Cleveland Spiders. They never existed, and the Spiders never even existed in the MLB.
All that being said, I still think the Spiders is a stupid name, with a stupid logo. I'm not entirely opposed to the Guardians name, but I DO think their logos are just garbage. It should be the face of the statue that's across the street from the ballpark. The imagery makes itself. I've heard it's because they can't own the copyright on the image of the statues. So, my suggestion is, do what Disney did. Disney can't own the copyright on public domain works like Snow White or Pochohantas. So they make their own fictionalized cartoon version of it. They make a version they can copyright. Do that. Make a version that is unique to your baseball brand, but also recognizable so that tourists leaving the stadium can see that big ass statue, that you can even see from inside the ballpark, and say "Oooooh, the logo is based on that!". While at the same time, keep them out of court.
Yes. I have opinions on Cleveland Sports.
Cleveland Spiders would have.... well.... rocked.
There's an extra "h" in your username.
When the NHL added a new team, I was hoping they'd name the team the Utah "Washington Football Team"
Call them the orange skins
I liked it also and wished they'd stayed "Football Team"
I'd have liked them to be called the Washington Birds. Not a specific bird, just any bird.
Kind of like when you go to a grocery store and see their generic brand, but it has really awesome packaging, so you buy that instead.
Publix is a great example of this.
I think he actually cares about being remembered as the pedophile president.
Yeah, weird right? He doesn't seem to care about anything, but this is his trigger? Like, how many kids did he rape?
Well the best lawyers and most corrupt judges still can't twist what happened on that island potentially decades ago to be part of his official duties, so he could actually go to jail. I suspect avoiding jail was the primary reason he even went for president again.
I'm thinking double digits
I LOVE having a Small Government!
The Epstein Files are buried where the new stadium is going to be built.
...stop fucking kids...
Tell him to fuck himself instead of women and children
The Caps need to change their name to The Washington Crackers.
I will not repeat what he wants the ~~Bullets~~ Wizards to name themselves.
What a dick!