No Surprise: New Name Doesn’t Command Love from Redskins Faithful

Pity the sports activities entity previously often called “The Washington Soccer Crew” (nee “The Redskins.”)

Till the George Floyd killing despatched company America into unreasoning ethical panic in 2020, the one individuals who had an issue with “The Redskins” have been weenie Washington Put up sports activities writers and weenie native Dem politicians. The followers cherished the title. The proprietor cherished the title. Heck, 90% of American Indians had no downside with the title or the emblem.

However the BLM freak-out claimed the Skins’ scalp when, within the phrases of The Put up, “a lot of Washington’s high sponsors threatened to chop ties with the crew over its title.” After a yr and a half of “The Washington Soccer Crew” (for some purpose, they rejected “The D.C. Castrati”), the crew introduced its new title February 2: The Washington Commanders. 

Response to going Commando has been .. meh. The Put up writes that:

In keeping with a citywide Washington Put up ballot, near half of D.C. residents have a unfavourable view of the crew’s new title, with 32 % disliking it and 17 % saying they “hate” it. 4 out of 10 residents are optimistic in regards to the new title, however their optimistic emotions towards the change are mushy, with solely 5 % claiming to “love” the Commanders and 36 % saying they “like” the brand new title. Eleven % say they don’t have any opinion of the title.

So the followers are ambivalent – those who have hung round by means of all of the shedding and the scandals. The Put up notes that “Fan curiosity has waned, and the crew’s common attendance at FedEx Discipline was among the many league’s worst final season.”

However you recognize who’s blissful? Weenie sports activities writers and weenie native Democrats. Now that the crew has come to heel, they put away their rolled up newspapers and reached for the treats. 

“Because the Commanders kicked off a brand new period, the crew was met with renewed curiosity from native officers, who two years earlier dangled a brand new stadium as a carrot for a reputation change,” the Put up says.

Play ball with lefty elite lefty opinion and complete reservoirs of taxpayer money grow to be accessible. As for the followers, properly, robust. As Commanders President Jason Wright advised the Put up, “Inside our core followers, it’s been blended, and the context is that 80 % of these followers didn’t need the title to be modified within the first place.” 

No, however the individuals who matter did.