Paintrain's all encompassing 'discuss all things offseason' thread (Version 2.0)

[Dirtbag59]

I freaking knew George Preston Marshall would do something from the grave to sabotage this. Honestly the fact that Joe Gibbs became our coach back in the 80's most have been to fix some negative karmic imbalance caused by good old George Preston Marshall. Only good thing the guy ever did was allow Jack Kent Cooke a chance to buy part ownership back in 1961.

1933 news article refutes cherished tale that Redskins were named to honor Indian coach - The Washington Post

The proof is in a July 6, 1933, edition of the Hartford Courant, which Witten unearthed after the sports Web site MMQB tipped him off about it.

The edition includes a short Associated Press dispatch quoting Marshall saying: “The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.”

Instead, Marshall explains, he gave up “Braves” to avoid confusion with a Boston professional baseball team of the same name. He apparently picked the Redskins name so he could keep the existing Native American logo.

Honestly this whole controversy has pulled me both ways many times. And though I hate coming across articles like the one above theres others that make me feel.....less guilty about supporting the team keeping the name.

Redskins name change not as easy as it sounds - ESPN

"I've talked to our students, our parents and our community about this and nobody finds any offense at all in it," says Tim Ames, the superintendent of Wellpinit schools. "'Redskins' is not an insult to our kids. 'Wagon burners' is an insult. 'Prairie n-----s' is an insult. Those are very upsetting to our kids. But 'Redskins' is an honorable name we wear with pride. … In fact, I'd like to see somebody come up here and try to change it."

If the above quote sounds familiar its the same one cited in BA's open letter to the senators demanding a name change.

With that said I kind of feel like the name change issue has gotten to the point where it deserves its own 2014 thread.

So anyone that wants to light that batch of fireworks with the 5 cm fuse have at you.