Posted on 06/24/2020 1:37:21 PM PDT by C19fan
The Washington Redskins have decided to remove all references of original owner George Preston Marshall, who founded the team in 1933 and owned it until his death in 1969. According to the Washington Post, the Redskins plan to erase Marshall's name from franchise history by removing his name from all official team material. This means Marshall will no longer be mentioned anywhere in their Ring of Fame, on their History Wall, or on the team's official website.
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Marshall was also a part owner of the Boston Braves which later moved to Atlanta.
Oh, for crying out loud, please just knock off the stupidity.
Do they REALLY think this is going to placate anybody when the name of the team is still Redskins?
No doubt in my mind that the Redskins will become the Rabbits or some such BS.
Are we in Orwell’s1984? Stalin’s Soviet Union?
These people are rewriting history. So it will be as if George Preston Marshall never existed.
The sounds to me like 1984.
It involves so-called “Progressives”, PC ones at that, so they can’t knock off the stupidity. Stupidity is all PCdiots have.
You mean like this guy?
The Washington Lawyers
... no one cares in lawyers are offended...
His image in photographs will be airbrushed out, down the Memory Hole with him. They will probably go through their entire archive of promotional literature and team histories and remove all references to him as well. He will become a non-person.
I am favorable to the Washington Swamp Rats.
They should arrest the POS who is their current owner — but if they did that, they might actually be good at some point in the future.
Redskins suck,
Snyder is a loser fanboy
who will not see the team to another winning season, much less a Play-off win (I won’t mention the Super Bowl, because they have no business being in the same sentence — unless it is past tense).
And now they won’t even have their crappy history.
The Winners Always ReWrite History.
It is even easier today since it is not being written down except in a digital format that is easy to edit.
When was the last edition of Encyclopedia Britannica published
When was the last Edit of Wikipedia ?
(and they are trying to destroy Archive.org too)
Well, they can change the plaques, but they can’t change the facts.
On the other hand, I don’t really care, because I don’t care about the sport, or any of the people involved, or any of the people who are or will be fans.
Don’t forget the Washington Warrens. After Elizabeth Warren.
What about Senators owner Calvin Griffith? He actually said that he was moving his team to Minneapolis because at the time it was a much whiter community.
I had to look up his sin. Apparently, it was being slow to sign a black player. However, he did sign a black player in 1962, and since thats nearly 60 years ago, and probably most footballers are black now, Id say just let it go.
But there is no letting it go with the Marxists. They have found their wedge, and blacks are letting themselves be used as the tip of the spear.
When are the leftist book burners going to cancel a certain POTUS who put 110,000 Japanese Americans (most born in the US) into large inland internment camps?
Yes. This is totally Orwellian. Marshall goes down the memory hole and its like he was never there. Gotta say, its getting late in the day.
Nice!
Pharoah’s....
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