autoreplace for washington r******s

now i want the seahawks to complain about infringement

hopefully this means the fight song lyrics will be changed to “hail to the football”

Were they forced to rename the bullets or did it just happen? I remember it happened seemingly over night.

it was a response to the assassination of yitzchak rabin, of all things

no one remembers because on the night the bullets changed their name, the entire world ended, just as so many people had warned

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/ever-wonder-why-name-change-bullets-wizards

"My friend was shot in the back by bullets,” Pollin said. “The name ‘Bullets’ is no longer appropriate for a sports team.”

tbf if they went back to being the bullets, but like powerpoint list bullets, it would be a perfectly appropriate team name for the city and region to get behind

Washington PowerPoints

wow, i never heard that story about how the rabin assassination triggered the bullets name change

The Washington Executive Summaries

the wikipedia for the wizards makes a really weird claim that rabin's assassin "got the idea when he watched the Bullets play a basketball game and heard the team name and suddenly snapped.[15]" the source is a link to a very thorough article about the name change that doesn't mention anything about that, and i can't find a single other thing making that claim.

washington wizards is the worst name in pro sports

The Washington Executive Summaries

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, July 23, 2020 9:44 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol. workable shortening to "the execs"

say that ten times fast

https://i.imgur.com/yu1exl1.gif

The Washington Crawfish Son

The DC C-Notes

they really have a ton of good options

iirc abe pollin built dc's whatever-it's-now-called-hoops-and-hockey arena on his own without* public money, so he was cool with me

(* i'm sure there were easements and transport/metro concessions made, but relatively speaking. dude was not snyder)

the wikipedia for the wizards makes a really weird claim that rabin's assassin "got the idea when he watched the Bullets play a basketball game and heard the team name and suddenly snapped.[15]" the source is a link to a very thorough article about the name change that doesn't mention anything about that, and i can't find a single other thing making that claim.

washington wizards is the worst name in pro sports

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'd be really shocked if Orthodox Israeli Yigal Amir watched NBA hoops

Reggie Jackson did it

The Washington Lanyards

YES

that's my favorite

that's so good

I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.

Most of the country would wonder why they decided to name themselves after a one-hit wonder 80s band from California.

excuse me, you mean three-hit wonder 80s band (four if you're being generous)

OK fine but I bet you there’s only one most people can still remember today

i'd say for the whippersnappers today, they're more likely to associate "go go" with either dancing or inspector gadget than the new wave band or chuck brown's scene

ha, apparently I wasn’t the first one to think of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_City_Go-Go

In December 2017, the Washington Wizards unveiled the Capital City Go-Go's name and released their logo. The team's name alludes to the go-go music genre that started in the mid-1960s to late 1970s local to Washington, D.C.

Why are we talking about whippersnappers when as far as I can tell, that team's fanbase is largely made up of portly white grandpas in the suburbs?

Washington Supremacists

The Washington Hamiltons

seriously, it's time to make a hard push for Hatcats

Washington Generals

I’m digging the helmet logo being replaced with uni number.

I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, July 24, 2020 11:19 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the missing thing is that if you took a map of the dc/md/va and marked the regions where washington football team fans live and then mark the regions where go-go music is performed and listened to there would be zero overlap

the washington washingtons

The DC Statehoods

The DC Marvels

The DC Avengers

The DC Hulks
The DC Spidermen
The DC Mickey Mice

You can stop

it's rumored that they have or are considering 'sentinels' so

ick

Washington Amazing Randys

AC/DC

the washington warblers
the DC Compact Disks
the capitol records

*discs

The Washington Toshingwons

Washington Corrupt Bargains

Hopefully they learn something from the other Washington team with a new name

https://www.theringer.com/2020/7/23/21336242/seattle-kraken-nhl-team-name