autoreplace for washington r******s

i don't care about hockey but that is 100% solid branding

Maryland Myrmidons

The Myrmidons of Greek myth were known for their loyalty to their leaders, so that in pre-industrial Europe the word "myrmidon" carried many of the same connotations that "robot" does today. "Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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

point is the average football fan lives 30-50 miles from DC and looks like this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEeXxjTXoAASsNv.jpg

average nats fan lives in chevy chase and looks like this

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5bad586b3f8e152ccafcac98/master/pass/Current-KavanaughTantrum.jpg

it's very odd to me how people seem to think no people of color watch football when a majority of all football players are people of color

I was thinking this

just going off of experience as someone whose spent my entire life living within a 30 mile radius of DC. obviously the washington team has fans of color but football isn't big in the city itself

football fans are still pretty white though

Of course most fans will be white, whites compromise about 76% of the population.

9% of viewers being Black means a fuckton of viewers are Black

ok i regret posting that because i was only ever making a flippant generalization that the football team has never been a big part of DC metro culture like the wizards or even the nats are, they belong to maryland and virginia. i've met more WFT fans from baltimore (from the post-colts pre-ravens era) than i have from DC city proper. i spent six years in PG county (the home of go-go music AND... fedex field) and i still met surprisingly few fans who were native to the county. the idea of snyder using something like go-go to brand his team just strikes me as cheap. of course chuck brown was supposedly a big sk*ns fan so what do i know.

lived in silver spring now for 5 or 6 years and i don't think i've seen a single bumper sticker in that time. might be a different story if the team didn't suck

Uh they put the stadium in the richest black county in the country for a reason.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sweaty-betty-film-review-854659

Good movie

I see http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg-crap-festooned cars in DC proper on a regular basis. Almost always driven by black people (if I can see the driver).

I feel like I see more cars with Capitals and Nationals crap, though. Probably has something to do with not sucking.

Also never forget the local Cowboys fandom. Note the stats in this City Paper piece on black residents’ affinity for the local team, though: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13042042/why-are-there-so-many-cowboys-fans-in-dc

Tanya Snyder says 8 final names remain for Washington:
Red Hogs, Defenders, Armada, Presidents, Brigade, Commanders, Red Wolves and Washington Football Team.
(via @AdamSchefter podcast)

— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) September 7, 2021

^Crap selection is indicative of a crap front office. I hope they just stick with 'Washington Football Team', an impossible choice for the fans to yell during tense moments on the field. GO, FOOTBALL TEAM!!

hogs (without red) would actually be decent

the rest are only differentiated by the level of pandering to the Troops

the Washington Christian Nationalists!

red hogs is upsetting

lol presidents is amazing i need everyone to pray for this name

presidents is very John Carpenter/Escape From
NY and i completely support it

presidents is the only one of those that's better than washington football team

red wolves is the most cowardly pick, both bland and not fully distancing themselves from the original name, so it'll be the one

Washington Football Team is by far the best

washington racist football team would be better

washington r******s
washington raacists

armada is pretty funny because it doesn't seem like a particularly american thing? the spanish armada, sure, the english armada. yep. but when you start searching for united states armada or american armada or washington armada, you start getting a lot of nissan ads and ski manufacturer stuff

Yeah Armada should be playing Tottenham Hotspur or some shit

Here are a few i came up with that follow the r******s formula:

The Washington Rainbows
The Washington Raviolis
The Washington Realists
The Washington Regattas

They're all good but Raviolis is my favorite

Rednecks, surely

Rights

Redheads is also nice.

Redscares

Red Snappers

Red Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk

Washington Radishes

Haha redheads would be so awesome

washington residents

Red Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk

I sincerely like residents

just . . . astonishing (from defector + wapo)

The funniest insight into Snyder’s warped brain comes from the rundown of his relentless pursuit of petty feuds with the many enemies he’s come to suspect of dishing gossip to journalists, and his attorneys’ tenuous but often successful legal maneuvering to gain access to the private communications of those enemies. Most prominent among that group is former WFT president Bruce Allen, who Snyder fired in December 2019 following a 3–13 regular season. Snyder became convinced that Allen was connected to the big trumped-up global conspiracy business, and his lawyers insisted they had “rock-solid” evidence of this whole deal, but it turns out what really knotted up Snyder’s undies may have been that Allen didn’t congratulate him for hiring head coach Ron Rivera two years ago:

In January 2020, after the news conference announcing Rivera’s hire, according to these people, Snyder learned that Allen had sent a congratulatory text to Rivera. Snyder was insulted, these people said, that he didn’t receive a similar text from Allen, whom Snyder had fired a few weeks before.

This was significant enough of a sticking point between the two men that Snyder attempted to use the pandemic and the threat of withholding money contractually owed to Allen as leverage, in order to force his former subordinate to send along a nice text message. Hilariously, even this failed to secure the desired congratulations:

Later that year, the team, citing the pandemic, attempted to get out of paying Allen all of the money he was owed under his contract. Allen fought back, and Snyder agreed to pay his full salary. But in a message sent to Allen’s lawyers over settlement terms, one of Snyder’s lawyers included a condition that Allen wouldn’t agree to meet, according to text messages reviewed by The Post.

“In addition, I understand that Mr. Allen has agreed to send a text message to Mr. Snyder stating, ‘Congrats on the hire,’” Snyder’s attorney wrote in July 2020, seven months after Snyder hired Rivera. Allen’s lawyers resolved the pay dispute, but he never sent this text, according to a person with knowledge of the case.

lmao what a fucking baby my god

apparently it’s commanders

let’s hope everyone just calls them the commies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM

I still say The Washington Raviolis is a really good name for a football team.

Washington Commander Salamanders

Washington Football Team was such a great name R.I.P.

yeah I loved seeing shit like "@ Football Team" on the schedule

new name sucks, didn't like "Guardians" for Cleveland either but at least that one kind of sounds like "Indians" which I think is important when you change a name like this. therefore Washington should've gone with "Pigskins"

xxp: oh, I see that joek has been all over Twitter for hours now. whoops.