This was just a matter of time

[Halldan1]

https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/fedex-puts-heat-on-washington-redskins-to-change-team-name/

FedEx puts heat on Washington Redskins to change team name
By Michael Blinn

At least one sponsor is speaking.

Not long after Adweek reported that big-name sponsors, shareholders and investors like Nike and PepsiCo were putting pressure on owner Daniel Snyder to change the Washington Redskins moniker, FedEx — the company that’s name graces the team’s home field — confirmed it had done so.

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“We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,” the shipping company said in a statement.

The franchise has long faced opposition from Native American groups and fans over its racist name, though Snyder has refused to change it, saying it represents “a badge of honor.”

Keeping the name now could prove problematic, as Snyder wants to move the team from its current FedEx Field home in Landover, Maryland after its lease is up in 2027. To return to Washington D.C., officials have been adamant he would have to change the name the franchise has had since 1933, according to the Washington Post.

 

[SHUisNJsTeam]

How come you never hear about anyone trying to get Notre Dame to drop the Fighting Irish? Shouldn’t that also be considered offensive!

 

[NYShoreGuy]

fedex founder has minority interest in redskins

 

[mikewalsh]

How come you never hear about anyone trying to get Notre Dame to drop the Fighting Irish? Shouldn’t that also be considered offensive!

I would think that "Drunk Irish" would be offensive, "Fighting Irish" not so much. I'm half Irish and my mother-in-law is off the boat, fighting Irish seems appropriate to me. LOL!!!

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

Change the team name to the Caucasians. Once you do that every group will want a team named after them.

 

[SHUSA]

Change the team name to the Caucasians. Once you do that every group will want a team named after them.

probably more equivalent if you called them crackers. "Caucasians" would be if the redskins were currently called a race like the native americans.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

probably more equivalent if you called them crackers. "Caucasians" would be if the redskins were currently called a race like the native americans.

Call them the crackers. I wouldn’t object. Especially since the word cracker originated in the MD VA area.

 

[HallX2]

Pander to everyone.

 

[TheGucc]

How come you never hear about anyone trying to get Notre Dame to drop the Fighting Irish? Shouldn’t that also be considered offensive!

fighting Irish = not used by oppressors to disparagingly refer to them

redskins = used by oppressors to disparagingly refer to them

This is not difficult, people.

North Carolina Tarheels = cool
North Carolina Hicks = not cool

 

[papacheesy2]

fighting Irish = not used by oppressors to disparagingly refer to them

redskins = used by oppressors to disparagingly refer to them

This is not difficult, people.

North Carolina Tarheels = cool
North Carolina Hicks = not cool

Also,
Fighting Irish = Not considered hurtful/offensive by most Irish Americans
Redskins = Yes considered hurtful/offensive by most Native Americans.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

Help with the term pirates? I don’t think it offends anyone. Yet very bad people. How does that work since many people have been harmed by pirates?

 

[shu09]

Pander to everyone.

Yup.

 

[TheGucc]

Help with the term pirates? I don’t think it offends anyone. Yet very bad people. How does that work since many people have been harmed by pirates?

I think enough time has historically passed since the prototypical “pirate” that especially since it isn’t an ethnically disparaging term that it’s basically relegated to ‘costume’ status, sort of like Spartans, or Knights, or Trojans, something like that

 

[lloyde dobler]

I think enough time has historically passed since the prototypical “pirate” that especially since it isn’t an ethnically disparaging term that it’s basically relegated to ‘costume’ status, sort of like Spartans, or Knights, or Trojans, something like that

Also because words have more than one meaning or context, which is totally lost in 2020.

In Seton Hall’s case, should a comeback in a baseball game nearly 100 years ago, resulting in the Pirates nickname, provide the necessary context? Of course it does. But nowadays, people don’t look for context. They search for negativity.

 

[mikewalsh]

Help with the term pirates? I don’t think it offends anyone. Yet very bad people. How does that work since many people have been harmed by pirates?

I don't think pirates would be offended by the team name Pirates

 

[rickj_65]

They should change their mascot to a redskin potato and watch everyone lose their sh*t.

 

[TrueBlue1989]

Also,
Fighting Irish = Not considered hurtful/offensive by most Irish Americans
Redskins = Yes considered hurtful/offensive by most Native Americans.

Show me the statistically reliable study that demonstrates that Native Americans are offended by the Redskin moniker. I am not saying it doesn’t exist but I have never seen it. My experience is that those seeking to expunge the name are largely white liberals. Next the mob will want “Washington” removed.

Fighting Irish is not offensive? By whose standards? I assume that Fighting Blacks will be totally acceptable and even embraced by you.

Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK. I find both highly offensive. Will you advocate that its name be canceled. Where does this stop?

It is such a sad time in our country when us virtuous, noble and enlightened people look back on history to point out all the many failings of our forefathers yet ignore their many positive contributions. It literally sickens me that our culture can even contemplate erasing Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, etc from history. Christianity will be next. Sad. We need prayers.

 

[HALL85]

Washington Indigenous People
Dallas Androgynous Horse Riders
New York Average Height Humans
Philadelphia Neutral Avians

That shouldn’t offend anyone....

 

[HallBall'n]

I think enough time has historically passed since the prototypical “pirate” that especially since it isn’t an ethnically disparaging term that it’s basically relegated to ‘costume’ status, sort of like Spartans, or Knights, or Trojans, something like that

Knights didn’t own slaves or the Greeks or Romans?

 

[GrMtWoods]

Show me the statistically reliable study that demonstrates that Native Americans are offended by the Redskin moniker. I am not saying it doesn’t exist but I have never seen it. My experience is that those seeking to expunge the name are largely white liberals. Next the mob will want “Washington” removed.

Fighting Irish is not offensive? By whose standards? I assume that Fighting Blacks will be totally acceptable and even embraced by you.

Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK. I find both highly offensive. Will you advocate that its name be canceled. Where does this stop?

It is such a sad time in our country when us virtuous, noble and enlightened people look back on history to point out all the many failings of our forefathers yet ignore their many positive contributions. It literally sickens me that our culture can even contemplate erasing Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, etc from history. Christianity will be next. Sad. We need prayers.

I had a customer who was a member of a Maine Indian tribe. He felt the term redskin was very offensive and would prefer it not used.

He obviously was not speaking for all native americans, but it was very easy for me to comply with his wishes.

Mr. Snyder is free to use or not use any words he wants, just like we all are. I'm not not telling others to not use any certain words or phrases. I'm merely being polite to a friend.

 

[Harty9]

Many Pirates owned slaves black, white, and all religions

 

[Halldan1]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29401445/stadium-sponsor-fedex-asks-redskins-change-nickname

Stadium sponsor FedEx asks Redskins to change nickname

• ESPN

FedEx, which has naming rights to the stadium in which the Washington Redskins play, made a request Thursday that the team change its nickname.

"We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name," FedEx said in a statement obtained by ESPN.

FedEx paid $205 million to the Redskins for naming rights to the stadium in 1998 in a deal that runs through 2025. Frederick Smith, the chairman, CEO and president of FedEx Corp., also owns a minority stake in the Redskins.

Team owner Dan Snyder has been under renewed pressure to change the nickname, with protesters reportedly targeting the team's sponsors, according to Adweek.

Former Redskins owner statue removed at RFK

FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo each received letters signed by 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a combined $620 billion asking the companies to sever ties with the team unless it changes its controversial name, Adweek reported Wednesday.

On Thursday night, Nike appeared to remove all Redskins gear from its online store. The other 31 NFL teams were listed and a search for "Redskins'' came up with no results. Nike did not immediately respond to an email message seeking comment.

In 2014, The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin asked FedEx shareholders to reconsider the naming rights agreement, but shareholders voted to stick with company officials and continue the business relationship, according to the Memphis Business Journal.

Snyder has been under more pressure in recent weeks to change the name given the social climate following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

Native American leaders want Snyder to change the name, which the franchise has used since 1933. In the past, groups protested the name and tried to win in court. Those efforts failed.

The Washington Post reported that Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, made it clear the nickname needed to be changed if the team wanted to return to the district.

That stance serves as a potential roadblock if the franchise wants to move back to the district when its lease on the land at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, is up after the 2027 season. Washington is looking at sites in the district, Maryland and Virginia.

District officials had made it clear they'd like the franchise to return to the city, where it played until leaving RFK Stadium after the 1996 season. The federal government owns the land, but last year Norton introduced a bill that called for it to be sold to the city at a fair market value.

ESPN's John Keim and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

I think enough time has historically passed since the prototypical “pirate” that especially since it isn’t an ethnically disparaging term that it’s basically relegated to ‘costume’ status, sort of like Spartans, or Knights, or Trojans, something like that

Time passed? Pirates still exist today. Heck I believe cruises were preparing for attacks less than a year ago. Pirates might not be as large in numbers as they once were but they still exist. Thankfully we are protected by US merchant marines.

 

[anon_ezos2e9wn1ob0]

America disgusts me right now. I'm embarrassed that so many of my countrymen are this stupid and fear for the future. Our freedoms are quickly evaporating and the tolerant left is coming for you, your kids, their kids, until everyone submits to their pathetic ways. They do not give a crap about people who work hard to provide, they cater to the people that are perpetually offended and demand everyone submit to their views or lose everything . It is the opposite of freedom, it is slavery at it's core.

 

[MBF72]

Arsenio Hall once said, partially in jest, that he was offended by the Cleveland Browns.
Were there any good pirates? If they acted legally, they wouldn't be called pirates.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

Arsenio Hall once said, partially in jest, that he was offended by the Cleveland Browns.
Were there any good pirates? If they acted legally, they wouldn't be called pirates.

The logic used is entirely hypocritical. How many people of these same people hate the history of this country and will take the day off from work to celebrate Indepenence Day?

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

Washington Indigenous People
Dallas Androgynous Horse Riders
New York Average Height Humans
Philadelphia Neutral Avians

That shouldn’t offend anyone....

You are not understanding. Washington was bad. DC Indigenous People. Now everyone's happy.

 

[HALL85]

You are not understanding. Washington was bad. DC Indigenous People. Now everyone's happy.

Maybe the NFL can split the divisions in to red and blue states…Then we can have outrage in the stands every weekend.

 

[hbkmyr]

The logic used is entirely hypocritical. How many people of these same people hate the history of this country and will take the day off from work to celebrate Indepenence Day?

How many of those who are offended by the removal of the confederate flag will ignore history and take off work for Independence Day, a holiday celebrate by the country the confederacy tried to separated from?

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

How many of those who are offended by the removal of the confederate flag will ignore history and take off work for Independence Day, a holiday celebrate by the country the confederacy tried to separated from?

Ignore history? I think you're talking about people who embrace history as a whole, the terrible and the great parts. And yes there are terrible parts, but it's part of who we are as a country.

You must be the guy who cuts your drunk and drug addict uncle out of old pictures. I do have an uncle like that who is deceased. To many he would be a black sheep, however we bring his picture out at every holiday. He's a part of us and always be. We may not want to follow in his footsteps. But he's one of us. Me personally, I'm proud of that and the lessons I learned from seeing those things first hand.

 

[SOBO1]

Knights didn’t own slaves or the Greeks or Romans?

There is a dark side to essentially every aspect of human history. No one or nothing is clean.

 

[SOBO1]

Show me the statistically reliable study that demonstrates that Native Americans are offended by the Redskin moniker. I am not saying it doesn’t exist but I have never seen it. My experience is that those seeking to expunge the name are largely white liberals. Next the mob will want “Washington” removed.

Fighting Irish is not offensive? By whose standards? I assume that Fighting Blacks will be totally acceptable and even embraced by you.

Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK. I find both highly offensive. Will you advocate that its name be canceled. Where does this stop?

It is such a sad time in our country when us virtuous, noble and enlightened people look back on history to point out all the many failings of our forefathers yet ignore their many positive contributions. It literally sickens me that our culture can even contemplate erasing Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, etc from history. Christianity will be next. Sad. We need prayers.

 

[hbkmyr]

Ignore history? I think you're talking about people who embrace history as a whole, the terrible and the great parts. And yes there are terrible parts, but it's part of who we are as a country.

You must be the guy who cuts your drunk and drug addict uncle out of old pictures. I do have an uncle like that who is deceased. To many he would be a black sheep, however we bring his picture out at every holiday. He's a part of us and always be. We may not want to follow in his footsteps. But he's one of us. Me personally, I'm proud of that and the lessons I learned from seeing those things first hand.

I agree with you the country has warts. You can dislike something about it’s history and still love 99% of it. So I don’t think they’d be hypocritical to celebrate Independence Day. And I think there’s enough evidence to show that there is a group who hates the way that part of our history turned out. Not saying it’s a large group but it is a group. That dude who was a “propagandist for confederate ideology” who drove his car into protesters in Virginia will probably be barbecuing tomorrow.

 

[SHUisNJsTeam]

Show me the statistically reliable study that demonstrates that Native Americans are offended by the Redskin moniker. I am not saying it doesn’t exist but I have never seen it. My experience is that those seeking to expunge the name are largely white liberals. Next the mob will want “Washington” removed.

Fighting Irish is not offensive? By whose standards? I assume that Fighting Blacks will be totally acceptable and even embraced by you.

Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK. I find both highly offensive. Will you advocate that its name be canceled. Where does this stop?

It is such a sad time in our country when us virtuous, noble and enlightened people look back on history to point out all the many failings of our forefathers yet ignore their many positive contributions. It literally sickens me that our culture can even contemplate erasing Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, etc from history. Christianity will be next. Sad. We need prayers.

Perfectly stated!

 

[NYShoreGuy]

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

I agree with you the country has warts. You can dislike something about it’s history and still love 99% of it. So I don’t think they’d be hypocritical to celebrate Independence Day. And I think there’s enough evidence to show that there is a group who hates the way that part of our history turned out. Not saying it’s a large group but it is a group. That dude who was a “propagandist for confederate ideology” who drove his car into protesters in Virginia will probably be barbecuing tomorrow.

There's a small group that hate the way the Civil War turned out. Sure. There's a small group that hates the name pirates somewhere. Theres a small group that hates this, a small group that hates that, and small group that hates the Redskins. Let's stop catering to small groups.

 

[Halldan1]

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Amazing what a hit to the wallet can accomplish.

 

[NYShoreGuy]

Amazing what a hit to the wallet can accomplish.

Dan dont you feel its a sad last resort when money dictates something like this?

 

[jim34238]

They should change their mascot to a redskin potato and watch everyone lose their sh*t.

LMAO!

 

[hbkmyr]

There's a small group that hate the way the Civil War turned out. Sure. There's a small group that hates the name pirates somewhere. Theres a small group that hates this, a small group that hates that, and small group that hates the Redskins. Let's stop catering to small groups.

And a large group that hates Huskies.