I heard today that this new website that is run by Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, has decided they will not call the Washington Redskins, the Washington Redskins on their website. The website has been advertised as TheMMQB.com, but it gets redirected to mmqb.si.com, which means it is on the Sports Illustrated website. MMQB stands for Monday Morning Quarterback, but I don’t know why they try to disguise that it’s a Sports Illustrated website. Anyway, on this website, they will refer to the Redskins as the Washington football team, instead of calling them the Redskins.
I saw on their website, that they have an article titled “A Public Relations Nightmare”, which is a short interview with former Redskins’ quarterback Joe Theismann, which leads you to believe that it is about the Redskin name. But as one of the comments below the article says, the title is misleading compared to the content of the interview. If they don’t intend to mention the team name Redskins on this website, it must be some type of political stand that the name is offensive to Native Americans. A professional football website is no place to take a political stand, but I guess they can do what they want with their website, no matter how stupid it is.
The Washington Redskins have had that name since they started in the National Football League in 1932. That’s 81 years of not being political correct. How dare they? Every now and then this offensive name stuff comes up, but nothing ever changes, and I hope it just dies away again. However, Washington D.C. is the city that renamed their basketball team the Wizards, instead of the Bullets, apparently Bullets encourages violence in that city. I’m sure the violence has dropped tremendously in that city since the name change to the Wizards. With their history, you never know if they will force the Redskins to change their name eventually too.
I don’t have a lot of Native American friends, but I have asked them if names like the Redskins, Chiefs, Braves, Seminoles, etc, bother them, and the unanimous response has been no, and most of them looked at me like it was a stupid question. Now I’m sure there are some Native Americans somewhere that are offended by the Redskin name, but some people are offended by just about anything. After hearing that this website will not call the Redskins by their correct name, it saves me time that might have been wasted looking at their website. So for that I say thank you.
Almost every time I hear this offensive name issue come up, it’s not brought up by a Native American. If it doesn’t bother them, then why should us pale faces make a big deal out of it? By the way, pale face, cracker, honky – none of those terms offend me in the least. Daniel Snyder, who has owned the Redskins since 1999, said recently that he has no intention of changing the name of the team. I’m not a big fan of his, but on this subject, I agree 100%.
Where does all this nonsense end? Are the Chiefs the next target of these hyper sensitive buffoons? If you get rid of the Redskin name, what about the Cowboys? They used to fight with indians. Should that be the next team name to go? Then maybe the Vikings, Raiders, and Buccaneers? Those were violent groups of people, so why not waste time hassling them too? People should use their energy to accomplish something worthwhile rather than to force others to go along with their way of thinking.
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