Simms, Dungy say they will not use term 'Redskins' this season
 

Two influential NFL voices -- including CBS lead analyst Phil Simms, who will handle Washington's Week 4 game -- said Monday they likely won't use the term "Redskins" when discussing the franchise.

Phil Simms (CBS), Tony Dungy (NBC) say they will not use term 'Redskins' this season | FOX Sports

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From the same article...

Jim Nantz
Troy Aikman
Boomer Esiason
Solomon Wilcots
Rich Gannon
And all of ESPN...
... will continue to use the team's name as always.

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In a related story...

Johnny Manziel let the Redskins know how he feels about the team name.

Sims and Dungy won't say Redskins in games
 

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...021749496.html

How stupid have we become? Read above.

Soooooooo, in being with silly politically correctness, I would guess Cleveland Indians, The Fighting Irish, New Orleans Saints, UNO Privateers and countless other teams' names would have to change.

Yes, you may ask why I mentioned The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and UNO Privateers?

Well, can people of Irish descent be not associated with always fighting. Rough, tumble, fighting, down on their luck Irish.

Pirates were very bad , very bad men. Blackbeard and our very own Jean Lafitteand ...etc.
Jean Lafitte Nat. Park and Lafitte , LA must go for name change too I guess.

STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:givemebeer:

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The wussification of America continues.

The WW2 generation would stomp their asses for being such *ussies.

Sims and Dungy won't say Redskins in games
 

I'm a Pirate. And I do take offense to UNO. My wife is the only person who knows I'm a pirate but still. I'm fairly nice. Only like the advantage if getting booty. Otherwise, I don't pillage. So why do the Privateers mascot have a scowl? From now on I am just going to call them oono instead of UNO.

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As it's been noted every time this sort of reply is given on the topic, none of the nicknames you describe are racial slurs, not even "fighting Irish".

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I am not going down this road!

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It's ironic that native american indians look with pride on the redskins

It's the image of toughness, resilience, pride

Having an ad or stadium section with proud indians would be a nice in your face

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All we keep hearing is "if it offends one person, they should change the name", and "you don't know what is offensive to another person". I totally disagree with that BS, but if that's the whiny way we're going to be in America, then how do you know what is or isn't a racial slur?

You can't make sense of it any more than I can. It's stupidity and self pity. This world has much bigger problems than a word that natives can't even agree on what it means to them. In the earliest days of this country Indians were commonly referred to as savages, and I would say that there undoubtedly WERE savages on either side of the fight. But then there were those who probably weren't doing anything to anyone, and that term I would imagine was quite offensive. Redskin just sounds like a fact being stated to me. I'm a whiteskin. Who gives a crap?

Maybe it did mean something else at one point in time, but guess what? Gay used to mean happy. Fagg*t meant a pile of sticks. Queer meant unusual. Nobody ever argues that those words have a completely different context today. And from what most natives seem to be saying, the term redskins is meant for honor. You want to argue with them? Go ahead, I'll wait.