Posted on 09/10/2015 1:10:09 PM PDT by PROCON
The District of Columbia's congresswoman on Thursday introduced a bill to strip the NFL of its federal antitrust protection as long as it allows Washington's football team to use the name "Redskins," a moniker some see as racist.
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said the National Football League and Washington's football team "should not be benefitting financially from federal antitrust exemptions while they continue to promote a disparaging moniker that has been found by legal authorities to be a racial slur."
A federal judge in July upheld an earlier decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that the name is "disparaging to Native Americans" and is thus ineligible for federal trademark registration.
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The murder rate is skyrocketing in her city, unemployment sucks, the economy sucks, the city is a shit hole and she thinks that she has time and energy to get a football team to change its name? She is an idiot.......
Naming football teams. How far Congress has fallen.
Agreed. The “Washington Redskins” should move ten miles north to Maryland. Then they could call themselves the “Savage Redskins”.
DC doesn’t even deserve a non-voting delegate.
Ha!
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