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

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Originally Posted by scowan

Well if you are now a farmer tanned white guy you now have "red skin" and I know you are not offended.

On a serious note, I guess there is no real incentive to change the name for Dan Snyder until he tries to get a new stadium and starts asking for public money to help him build it. Then the Redskin name haters will come out of the wood work I'm sure.

I am really trying hard to find a way to make this offensive for me so I can understand. I am not an American Indian, I am a 45 year old white guy from Kentucky. Even if they called the team the Washington Honkys or the Washington Rednecks, I'm still just not getting offended. Maybe I just have thicker skin, I don't know. Someone needs to give me, a white guy, a name that will really offend me so I can understand. I'm conservative so maybe if you called me a liberal Democrat I might get it.

Its only a matter of time before the name is changed.

You are correct about the new stadium Scowan. Like most things this will end up being about $ and when DS decides he needs a new stadium and wants public $ to build it (there is no chance he will shell out his own dough for a stadium) he will change the name. Of course he will spin it to make it sound like its not about $ and he will use "we fought the good fight t keep the name" language but make no mistake about it, the name change will be all about $.