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Redskins Name Change Thread

How is it possible for some random college to trademark Red Wolves when there are 758 schools that are either Wildcats or Tigers?
 
How is it possible for some random college to trademark Red Wolves when there are 758 schools that are either Wildcats or Tigers?

Some schools try to be unique. For instance, the school many on here graduated from.
 
Its just a matter of how much Washington wants a given name, the fuck you money of the NFL will bend anyone to their will.
 
Its just a matter of how much Washington wants a given name, the fuck you money of the NFL will bend anyone to their will.

So true.

The delay in announcing a new name will, in part, be a function of how difficult, how expensive and how many of these negotiations need to be done.
 
One of the names being pushed is "Redwolves." There is a group in Columbia, NC, the Red Wolf Coalition, that already owns the domain "redwolves.com." They've been around a while, since 1997. They appear to be pretty legit, as they awarded scholarships to two young women for college attendance beginning in fall of 2020.

Just one of many hurdles before Washington has a name for its football team.


ETA:

Red Wolves were indigenous to all of the southeast US, from Texas to Virginia. They were hunted to extinction in the wild by 1980. However, a captive breeding population produced enough offspring that a group was released into five counties in northeast NC in 1987. The population grew until Illegal hunting considerably reduced the numbers again.

Seems like a good fit. The Skins franchise went extinct by 1980, was revived for a few years, then became extinct by the early 90s.
 
Seems like a good fit. The Skins franchise went extinct by 1980, was revived for a few years, then became extinct by the early 90s.

Just thought about it. They've been around forever but really have only been relevant from the early 70s to the early 90s. Could be worse, could be the Lions who have only been relevant a year or 2 since the 50s.
 
One of the names being pushed is "Redwolves." There is a group in Columbia, NC, the Red Wolf Coalition, that already owns the domain "redwolves.com." They've been around a while, since 1997. They appear to be pretty legit, as they awarded scholarships to two young women for college attendance beginning in fall of 2020.

Just one of many hurdles before Washington has a name for its football team.


ETA:

Red Wolves were indigenous to all of the southeast US, from Texas to Virginia. They were hunted to extinction in the wild by 1980. However, a captive breeding population produced enough offspring that a group was released into five counties in northeast NC in 1987. The population grew until Illegal hunting considerably reduced the numbers again.

Cross breeding with Coyotes is really the main issue with the viability of the species.
 
It looks like an NIL with a local tribe would have been faster/easier/cheaper, but I understand they probably want to move on from Native American imagery.
 
The Washington Swamp Rats!

Given the ineptitude of the Redskins... I like "Washington Congress" as a name.... builds off the success of the Washington Senators of years gone by in baseball
 
Washington's run of success came when Joe Gibbs convinced Jack Kent Cooke to pony up for the Hall of Fame offensive line. There was no salary cap, so it was just a matter of spending to keep "the hogs" intact for many years. Thus, Washington won three Superbowls with three QBs who might make the Hall of "Very Good."
 
Which is why Hogs would probably be the best mascot at least for football purposes.
 
Given the ineptitude of the Redskins... I like "Washington Congress" as a name.... builds off the success of the Washington Senators of years gone by in baseball

Makes me think of dirty sleazy DC sex. Nice.
 
That’s not the story I remember growing up. The one I remember is the name honored Civil War soldiers who fought so hard for the Confederacy that it was like they had tar on their heels.

This. This is the origin of the name.
 
This. This is the origin of the name.

No, the name predates the civil war. It comes from Eastern NC being a producer of tar and turpentine derived from Longleaf Pine sap. NC was an important world wide supplier of pine sap tar for sealing wooden ships and turpentine was medicinal before antibiotics. The laborers would get sap on their feet that was impossible to clean off. Civil war soldiers adopted the name as a point of pride to be from NC, but the name actually predates the civil war by a long time.

Wikipedia
“The origins of the Tar Heel nickname trace back to North Carolina's prominence in the mid 18th and 19th centuries as a producer of turpentine, tar, pitch, and other materials from the state's plentiful pine trees.[1] "Tar Heel" (and a related version, "Rosin Heel") was often applied to the poor white laborers who worked to produce tar, pitch, and turpentine. The nickname was embraced by North Carolina soldiers during the Civil War and grew in popularity as a nickname for the state and its citizens following the war.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Heel
 
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