A Letter from Danny

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/18/broadcasters-are-using-wasington-team-name-a-lot-less/

Broadcasters are using Wasington team name a lot less

Plenty of fans, media, and league officials are longing for the good old days, when the NFL’s biggest controversy centered on the inevitability that the Washington franchise will, at some point, have a new name.

Until the name changes, plenty of broadcasters have tapped the brakes on using the name. Via Brad Gagnon of Awful Announcing, Deadspin has crunched the numbers.

Based on scripts of NFL broadcasts through the first two weeks of the each of the last two seasons, the team name was said 186 times and “Washington” was used 156 times in 2013. In 2014, the team name has been mentioned only 67 times. “Washington” has been used 169 times.

Last year, the team name was used 30 times more than “Washington.” This year, “Washington” has been used 102 times more than the team name.

It’s a trend that will continue, and it’s an issue that eventually will resurface, lingering until the name changes, and beyond.

 

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https://tv.yahoo.com/news/-daily-show--segment-leads-to-shouting-match-between-redskins-fans-and-native-americans-164823087.html

'Daily Show' Segment Leads to Shouting Match Between Redskins Fans and Native Americans

Several Washington Redskins fans are unhappy about a Daily Show segment they participated in that pitted them against Native Americans in the ongoing debate over the team's controversial name.

The segment, filmed Sept. 13 for a yet-to-air episode, involved a heated back-and-forth, with the fans feeling unaware of what they had signed up for, according to the Washington Post.

Kelli O'Dell, a 56-year-old former teacher, was in tears during the segment and has asked the show not to include any footage of her, although a show producer said he couldn't promise that she would be omitted. Two days later, O'Dell tried to file a police report but was told no crime had been committed.

"This goes way beyond mocking," O'Dell said of the way she and her fellow fans were treated. "The Native Americans accused me of things that were so wrong. I felt in danger. I didn’t consent to that. I am going to be defamed."

Among the Native Americans who participated in the segment was Amanda Blackhorse, lead plaintiff in the case that led to the Redskins losing their trademark on the name. "I said to them, ‘You sound like an alcoholic, someone who’s in denial and who doesn’t want to believe what they’re doing is not right,' " Blackhorse said afterward. "They don’t see anything wrong with it. "

Fan Brian Dortch said he regrets wearing a Redskins jacket, which a Daily Show producer insisted that he wear. "I am just an average fan," Dortch said. "These are activists who have media training and talking points."

Update 3:45 p.m. PT: The television show South Park is set to skewer the ongoing controversy during its season 18 premiere on Wednesday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnK-jYzaWtw

 

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http://www.hulu.com/watch/691075

It is here!!!!

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/25/fedex-feels-pressure-over-connection-to-washington-team/

FedEx feels pressure over connection to Washington team

Washington owner Daniel Snyder has had a pretty good three weeks. Apart from a rollicking home win over the Jaguars and the apparent emergence of Kirk Cousins as the guy they’d hoped Robert Griffin III would become, the debate regarding the team’s name had landed on the back burner, behind Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy and Ray Rice.

But the issue remains, and the company that has purchased the naming rights to the stadium owned by Snyder now faces pressure over the relationship.

Via the Associated Press, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma has launched a boycott of FedEx based on its relationship with the team. The Osage Nation has called on other tribes throughout the country to follow suit.

Osage Nation, an 18,500-member tribe, has instructed its employees to not use FedEx when an alternative service for getting something from one place to another is available until the Washington team adopts a “less inflammatory and insulting” name.

Through a spokesman, FedEx pointed out that FedEx Field hosts things other than Washington football games. The company also added that it has closely followed the “dialogue and difference of opinion” regarding the team’s name.

In June, FedEx CEO Fred Smith declined to say whether he believes the team’s name should change. Smith also owns a small piece of the franchise.

Other Oklahoma tribes previously have asked Washington to change the name, covering more than 500,000 total Native Americans.

 

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/redskins-selling-expired-world-cup-budweiser-beers-at-fedex-field-161517369.html

Redskins selling expired World Cup Budweiser beers at FedEx Field

As if Dan Snyder didn't have enough controversy on his plate —getting leveled in this season's "South Park" premiere and again by the "Daily Show" a day later for his insistence on keeping a racially charged mascot — the Washington Redskins owner is washing down that crow with expired World Cup beer.

In a nifty piece of investigative journalism by The Washington Post'sDan Steinberg, we learned the Redskins are indeed still selling the since expired Budweisers at FedEx Field.

As Steinberg notes upon plugging the fan's almost four-month-old code into Budweiser's "Track Your Bud" website, the "Bud has passed its freshness date" — a warning that is accompanied by the brewmaster's promise to "buy you a fresh Budweiser. Please contact us."

Cue emails from bitter beer-faced fans still hungover from a 45-14 loss to the New York Giants.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbYs7QagnDc

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/01/murphy-says-washington-name-has-been-discussed-at-the-league-level/

Murphy says Washington name has been discussed “at the league level”

Supplanted of late by other controversies, the debate regarding the Washington name lingers. On Tuesday, Packers CEO Mark Murphy acknowledged that the debate also has migrated to the upper reaches of the NFL.

“There have been discussions at the league level,” Murphy said Tuesday at Marquette Law School, via Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We have had some discussions at owners’ meetings. Dan [snyder] has made presentations. Quite honestly, I think with all the issues we are facing, with domestic violence and concussions, it’s probably not at the top of the list.”

He’s right, but eventually it will be.