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Poll: What Should the Redskins’ New Name Be?
PJ Media ^ | June 18, 2014 - 9:46 am | by Bryan Preston

Posted on 06/20/2014 6:22:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder is not a particularly admirable man. He tends to treat the Redskins as if he’s playing fantasy football. They tend to lose more often than they win. He’s not exactly a fan favorite. But Snyder isn’t taking the U.S. Patent Office’s ruling against his team lying down.

The team has released a statement saying the ruling “will have no effect at all on the team’s ownership of and right to use the Redskins’ name/logo”. They’re correct, but it does allow others to use the name as they wish…the just can’t trademark it either.

Which, in the short term at least, means we’re likely to see a whole lot of pirated Redskins merch hit the streets. Dan Snyder just won’t make any money from it.

For its part, the NFL is trying to be Switzerland. It’s not going to say anything in support of or opposition to the Patent Office’s decision.

At some point, the Washington Redskins will be forced to change their name. It’s only a matter of time. The hostile occupying force that is now the Beltway cannot abide anything less than total capitulation from the rest of us. After that, maybe Washington will see fit to force Oklahoma (translation: “red people”) to officially call itself “Texas’ Pan-Shaped Hat.”

Snyder could have some fun with a Redskins renaming contest, though. Twitter has lit up with alternative names. Snyder could poll test them to see which ones capture Americans’ current attitudes.

What do you think the Redskins’ new name should be?

Washington RedTapes (12%, 154 Votes)

Washington Extremists of Undetermined Religious Background (20%, 252 Votes)

Washington Desk Jockeys (3%, 35 Votes)

Washington Bolsheviks (40%, 496 Votes)

Beltway Bandits (26%, 322 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,242


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: dansnyder; football; nfl; redskins
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To: Red Badger

The Washington Scalpers.

Considering what the Ruling Class in D.C. is doing to the Country, it fits.


121 posted on 06/20/2014 8:32:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Proud Antiobamunist since 2008...)
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To: Red Badger
Washington Drunken Indians
Washington Welfare Bums

122 posted on 06/20/2014 8:32:36 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Red Badger

Washington Windbags
Washington Wussies
Washington Redistributioners
Washington Pathetics
Houston Afros


123 posted on 06/20/2014 8:34:29 AM PDT by Rick66 (Allah hates me, the feeling is mutual.)
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To: vetvetdoug

That sounds good. They could make a deal with the tribe like FSU and the Seminoles.....................


124 posted on 06/20/2014 8:50:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,735 threads and 84,728 replies, as of 06-20-2014)
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To: Red Badger

Change the logo, not the name....

Sunburned, bikini clad, model.


125 posted on 06/20/2014 9:01:45 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Zeppo
That statement is simply false.

I hope I shall never have to warn you again, Zep!

Factual information is definitely out of place on this type'o'thread. Confine yourself to vague boolshiite, or it's to the Moderator you go.

Capito?

126 posted on 06/20/2014 9:48:48 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
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To: Red Badger
Baltimorons.

Tampa overcame this problem.

127 posted on 06/20/2014 9:50:42 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
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To: Red Badger

Yep, that’s why I picked the name.


128 posted on 06/20/2014 9:58:01 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: Red Badger
While there are benefits to having a federal trademark registration, not having one (or losing the registration) does not mean that your trademark has no legal protection.

There's a good discussion of the issue here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2014/06/18/loss-of-redskins-trademark-registration-is-overblown/

129 posted on 06/20/2014 10:15:57 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Kenny Bunk

Yep, I consider myself to have been suitably reprimanded.

I’ve been here long enough to know not to inject pesky facts into such a discussion. I can be a bit of a wet blanket at times. :-)


130 posted on 06/20/2014 10:17:45 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo

Washington Negroes?


131 posted on 06/20/2014 10:26:10 AM PDT by Nabber
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To: Red Badger

132 posted on 06/20/2014 10:30:20 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Foreskins.”

We already call them that. And when it’s particularly bad, the Deadskins.


133 posted on 06/20/2014 10:39:52 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Red Badger

The Washington Rubicundermis


134 posted on 06/20/2014 10:44:53 AM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: jobim

The Washington Balloon Knots


135 posted on 06/20/2014 10:48:35 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: Red Badger

Foreskins.

5.56mm


136 posted on 06/20/2014 10:50:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Red Badger

Cheasapeake Redskins


137 posted on 06/20/2014 10:55:28 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Red Badger

August 24 ,1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.

When the British arrived at the White House, they found that President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already fled to safety in Maryland. Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover food from the White House scullery using White House dishes and silver before ransacking the presidential mansion and setting it ablaze.

The White House, a number of federal buildings, and several private homes were destroyed. The still uncompleted Capitol building was also set on fire, and the House of Representatives and the Library of Congress were gutted before a torrential downpour doused the flames.


138 posted on 06/20/2014 1:24:10 PM PDT by Snowyman
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To: Rick66

Gary Klein
How about the Washington Brown shirts.


139 posted on 06/21/2014 2:44:54 AM PDT by gakrak (“If you put the Fed Gov in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”)
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