The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

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Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
RumblyTumbly said:
Like "The Washington Football Players" or the "DC Pro Football Athletes"
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One of the suggestions is actually Washington Football Club.

Washington Football Club

Washington Football Club
Does a team even need a nickname?

Throughout most of the sporting world, including Europe's major soccer leagues, teams are primarily known by where they play.

Washington could forge ahead by dispensing with a nickname entirely. It's a move that might even appease both sides of the argument by simultaneously serving as a reminder of why the name had to change and an acknowledgement that nothing would suffice as a replacement.
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RumblyTumbly said:
A) Change the name into the most generic sounding thing ever. Like "The Washington Football Players" or the "DC Pro Football Athletes" or go for colors "The Washington Burgundy and Golds".
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I'd go with something like the "Washington Casino Workers", "Fire Water Fiends", "Losers of Colonialism" or the "DC Tech Support Agents" and rename the field to the "Designated Shitting Stadium"
 
I think Washington should sell naming rights to advertisers. Why not? They do it in major leagues overseas (the most recent champs of China's major basketball league is named after a bank; how very "socialism with Chinese characteristics"), and pretty much everything else about this league can have a logo slapped on it. The Washington Nike? Just do it.
 
Snyder shouldn't have bothered caving. They were always planning on burning it to the ground regardless.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/...xual-harassment-verbal-abuse-female-employees

Washington Redskins executives accused of sexual harassment, verbal abuse
The report surfaced hours after the Washington NFL team retained top attorney Beth Wilkinson to conduct an internal review of its operations.

By Thomas BarrabiFOXBusiness

Redskins employees hit with sexual harassment allegations from 15 women
The Washington Post reports former Washington Redskins employees say they were sexually harassed by former scouts and members of owner Daniel Snyder’s inner circle.
A group of 15 female former employees of the NFL’s Washington Redskins accused top team executives of sexual harassment and verbal abuse in a damning report on the team’s internal culture on Thursday.
Washington team employees accused of workplace misconduct include top player personnel executives Richard Mann III and Alex Santos, who were fired earlier this month, and Larry Michael, the team’s longtime radio play-by-play announcer, who announced his retirement on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported. The incidents were alleged to have occurred from 2006 to 2019.

The women allege they were subjected to unwanted sexual advances and remarks from team employees and that executives with knowledge of the harassment failed to take action. In some instances, the women say they were pushed to wear revealing clothes or flirt with sales clients.

“It was the most miserable experience of my life,” one of the accusers, former Washington NFL team marketing coordinator Emily Applegate, told the Washington Post. “And we all tolerated it, because we knew if we complained — and they reminded us of this — there were 1,000 people out there who would take our job in a heartbeat.”

The report surfaced hours after the Washington NFL team retained top attorney Beth Wilkinson to conduct an internal review of its operations. Wilkinson said the probe would investigate “allegations of workplace misconduct.
Washington team owner Daniel Snyder declined the newspaper's requests for comment on the allegations. In a statement, the team said it "takes issues of employee conduct seriously."

"While we do not speak to specific employee situations publicly when new allegations of conduct are brought forward that are contrary to these policies, we address them promptly,” the Washington NFL team said.
The accused employees include individuals described as members of Snyder's "inner circle." Michael was accused of commenting on the attractiveness of a female intern. Santos was accused of making inappropriate remarks of a sexual nature to team employees and reporting covering the franchise, while Mann was accused of commenting on whether a female employees' breasts were enhanced. All three men declined to comment.

Other accused individuals included former president of business operations Dennis Greene, who allegedly asked female employees to wear suggestive clothing, and former chief operating officer Mitch Gershman, who was accused of verbal abuse and improper remarks. Greene declined comment and Gershman denied wrongdoing.
Snyder was not personally accused of any harassment but was alleged to have presided over a company culture that condoned verbal abuse of staff.

The allegations were another setback for a Washington organization that has dealt with intense scrutiny in recent days. The team announced earlier this week that it would retire the Redskins nickname and logo amid pressure from corporate sponsors. Critics have long argued the logo was racist.
The team’s three minority owners -- FedEx CEO Fred Smith, Black Diamond Capital CEO Robert Rothman and NVR Inc. Chairman Dwight Schar – are attempting to sell their stakes due to dissatisfaction with Snyder's leadership.
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I have to wonder (((who))) is trying to get the team cheap. Bezos?

I love seeing NFL teams fail at the game, but not like this.
 
I guess I could see the reasoning that they think they don't have the time to commission a new name, logo, mascot, etc. and work through the bureaucracy of getting it copyrighted and such before the season begins… but it's still dumb.

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"We chose to take a page out of American history: we removed the native and kept the land." :story:
 
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They have plenty of time, this experiment with brandlessness is just Snyder throwing a tantrum about having to change anything. I have little doubt he's banking on the pressure from sponsors and merchandise companies slacking off after the season and he can just trot out the old name again. It won't work, but the name change has never been a rational thing for Snyder.
 
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Still not watching the NFL any more, but have some thoughts...


Would cancel the NFL season right now. If baseball is having all these ChiCom Flu problems, and it isn't a contact sport, can only imagine what would happen with the NFL, which is a contact sport. Would guess contract negotiations are going on between the NFL and networks/streaming services/anyone else. Same reason as baseball. Player contracts will need to be addressed. Maybe a lump sum for the season, say, a proportion of what the player would earn for a full year. Proportions could vary - a 20% payment to someone making $5 million a year will be much more than the same 20% to someone making minimum salary, about $600,000/year. Would guess there would be minimum and maximum payouts. At least that's how I'd do it. Likely coaches/scouts/front office unaffected, since their salaries are again a fraction of player salaries.

These approaches limit the financial damage to the teams. Then you have to look at networks, streamers, and their advertisers. If you are a contracts lawyer such negotiations might put a lot of bread on your table. Contracts can be very complex to draw up, modify, and sometimes adjudicate. Can also tell you contracting people can work wonders when you really need something on contract. Nobody is at fault here - act of God. Should any disputes end up in mediation/arbitration/court, you can bet the mediator/arbitrator/judge will make the decision based on the act of God.

And the NFL owners need not go on some poor-mouth rant to try and fuck the players over. The only owner I know of for which the team is their primary business is the Bidwills, who own the Arizona Cardinals. All the other owners, least in the NFL, have other business ventures and/or shitloads of money.
 
No. We need to stop pretending this disease is so much worse than the flu, and we don't stop sports (or the rest of the world) for the flu. Get the kids on the fields doing what they do. Sell tickets, sell hot dogs. If a player doesn't want to play or a hot dog vendor doesn't want to vend hot dogs, fine, call someone else up from the bench who does. Players will get sick and people in the crowd will get sick. One in a thousand might even die, but the rest will get better. And life will go on.
 
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No. We need to stop pretending this disease is so much worse than the flu, and we don't stop sports (or the rest of the world) for the flu. Get the kids on the fields doing what they do. Sell tickets, sell hot dogs. If a player doesn't want to play or a hot dog vendor doesn't want to vend hot dogs, fine, call someone else up from the bench who does. Players will get sick and people in the crowd will get sick. One in a thousand might even die, but the rest will get better. And life will go on.
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Nah cancel it all because sports are pozzed by BLM shit anyways. Let it all die.
 
Apparently a group including The Rock have bought out the XFL. I still want to see at least some NFL games this year, but if they have to cancel, here's hoping at least the XFL can have a third chance at life in the spring. I did enjoy some of their games last season and I don't even care if anyone makes fun of me for it at this point.

COVID-19, national anthem protests, domestic violence… I just wanna watch handegg for God's sake!
 
Preseason has been pretty quiet so far (no major covid outbreaks like baseball's dealing with lol), such that the biggest news of the past few weeks is that Earl Thomas is getting released by the Ravens. Sounds like nothing's changed since he left Seattle - being a diva after getting paid, fighting with teammates and feuding with the front office, etc.
 
Just put something watchable on the screen. Something we can watch and get invested in without being reminded how shit the rest of the world is in. No political messages on the jerseys/fields and no players just deciding they don't feel like playing today with absolutely zero consequences.

Just look at what the NBA is doing and don't do that. It can't be that hard.
 
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