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Originally Posted by tshile
I think you're being overly optimistic.
There's a bigger play at work here. And even if there isn't, the constantly shifting 'standards' of political correctness guarantee nothing if the team name is changed to anything that can be perceived as relating to any culture, race, creed, etc.
My opinion: if you change the name and leave any links to Native Americans in place, you're simply asking for us to go through all of this again at some point in the future. Personally - if we're going to change the name I prefer we change to something that doesn't mean decades of defending it again. I'm rather tired of the whole issue.
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I might be overly optimistic, but when I start seeing frivolous lawsuits such as the one against the Cleveland Indians for $9 billion, then I start to see that this is a money thing more than anything else. And money talks, people listen. Everybody has their price, even these special interest groups. If the price is right, they go away satisfied and hopefully you've brokered a deal to either keep your name and logo, or change it to something that still remains Native American. Obviously that's still important to Daniel Snyder.