Letter from Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to fans

Washington Post ^ | 10-9-2013 | Dan Snyder

[Polyxene]

They could change their logo to a redskin potato and call themselves the “Spuds”!

[RedMonqey]

I agree—a good way for kids to learn the names of Indian tribes, or be familiar with the terms

If the KKK or some neo Nazi group were the ones pressuring the colleges and owners to rid themselves of these mascots as they were "empowering" a "fallen, degenerate race", these same groups would be agitating the owners to KEEP these same symbols.

It's all a matter of perspective....

[Gator113]

Breaking: Obama agrees to compromise. He prefers Foreskins.

[Zeneta]

To be fair.

Dallas has owned the Redskins over the years.

Washington is probably viewed like a troublesome gnat that just won’t go away.

From my prospective as a lifelong Redskins fan, anytime the Cowboys are defeated, I’m happy.

I give the Cowboys a ton of credit for what they have been able to achieve over the years.

Football is not what it used to be.

Winning and the love of the game has been lost to the money and showboats.

[gundog]

How about we all write Gov. O’Malley,D-MD and demand that the Black-Eyed Susan be removed as the State flower?

[Ditto]

I suggested they just get their friends in the Taliban to blow it up and they didn’t like that either. There’s just no pleasing some folks....

Tom Clancy RIP, but that kind of reminds me of the plot in Sum of all Fears ... the book by Clancy not the PC crap movie that was made where they were scared to piss off either the Indian or the Muslim thought police.

[foreverfree]

FWIW a poster in the comments beneath Snyder's letter points out that the poll Dan points to was taken 9 years ago...

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/downloads/political_communication/naes/2004_03_redskins_09-24_pr.pdf

ff

[M Kehoe]

Good evening.

I may have posted to this thread,...to lazy to look it up...

The Washington Redskins should rename the team to the Washington Foreskins because there are a bunch of Richard craniums in the district.

5.56mm