OT: Washington Admirals???

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Silly name for a dumb *** city! Perfection! Regardless, may they continue to suck and make cowboy-like stupid moves!

 

[AntiG]

Washington Commies in red and gold!

 

[AntiG]

Snyder virtue signaling to the Democrat "Squad" lol

 

[BuggsyRU]

Lol. Ok. If 10% of people being upset is enough reason to change then pretty much everything needs to be changed. Find me a statue or monument that doesn’t piss of some group
Somewhere.

that 10 percent poll is also BS. Commissined by Dan Snyder and refuted because of the way the questions were provided.

When a second, more scientific poll, which directly asked Native Americans if they were offended, 50 percent said they WERE offended...

65 percent said they were offended by sports fans performing a “tomahawk chop,” and 73 percent said they were offended by fans imitating Native American dances.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/...-how-native-americans-view-the-redskins-name/

That 10 percent figure is our BS. But you are not offended, thank god, so Native Americans who felt the word "Redskins" and all the things associated with it are terrible.... should just suck it up because some close-minded Caucasian in NJ thinks its no big deal.

 

[MADHAT1]

Stop whining about a forced name change.eadHorse: :BeatDeadHorse:
Start whining ( like me) about the damm name it was changed to.:YesNo

 

[Retired711]

That I knew too.

And I remember it as the AAFC.

You're ahead of me then -- until I looked it up, I didn't know the 49ers or Colts had been AAFC teams. (Although I am far from old enough to be around when the conference played, I do remember it being referred to as the AAC.) I only knew about the Browns having started as an AAFC team. I also thought that the Browns had shared Cleveland with the Rams, but the Rams left just before the Browns came into existence.

I'm sure you know this, but the younger generation may not be aware that the Cleveland Browns were named for their coach, Paul Brown, and that Brown was an outstanding figure who led the Browns to championships in all four of the AAFC's seasons and to championship game appearance in the NFL every year through 1955 He was noted for calling every play from the bench at a time when few coaches did that. Brown would send in the call via a messenger guard.

I'm sure you also know (but again, the younger generation may not) that Brown's quarterback was Otto Graham, one of the most dominant players of his generation. He still holds the record for the best winning percentage of any NFL quarterback.

My mother met Graham's brother in 1966 when we were living in Orlando, Florida. The brother was quite impressed that, at age fifteen, I knew who Otto Graham was even though I was only five when his career ended. Graham was that noted a player.

Finally, it made sense to incorporate the 49ers into the NFL as a counterpart to the Rams in Los Angeles. I don't know why Baltimore got into the NFL when the AAFC died.