@indiancountry Please cover "Change the Name Rally!" Sun. Jan. 3 outside Dallas Cowboys stadium! pic.twitter.com/AYxXg0HTn1
— Miss Oglala Lakota (@MsOglalaLakota) January 2, 2016
Got this from the twitter feed of Mother Jones’ Editor-in-Chief.
You’d think the other rich fvcks in the NFL’s Rich Fvck Owners Club would take Dan Snyder aside and point out the calendar no longer says 1957… but I guess if you can’t show your frog-belly white arse in public, what’s all that money for?
Here’s video from a 2014 protest at the same stadium:
NotMax
Change the name of the team to the Concussions.
Truth in advertising.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
What you are trying so hard not to say is that he is a rich, entitled, fucking asshole.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Was just checking to see if I understood you correctly. I see that I did.
Elizabelle
For the record, the word “redskins” shows up in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight.
I do not think that was by accident. It’s in there, along with copious use of the N word (as usual), but I’m not sure I’ve heard “redskins” before.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: You must have not watched alot of old westerns.
Elizabelle
@BillinGlendaleCA: LOL. That’s true, not enough.
But I think this term was in there on purpose, because a lot of the movie turned on the aftermath of the Civil War and race relations.
Tarantino stood publicly with protests against police violence, and didn’t back down. He could have used other terms like Indians, injuns, Apaches, whatever. He went with redskins, because it’s become a terrible word and the audience would pick up on that.
I guess it could just be an homage to content from previous Westerns, but I think the word is doing more work than that.
NotMax
BTW, thanks to the commenters for refraining from dropping spoilers on the Chipmunks movie.
(I keed, I keed.)
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Don’t look at me, last movie I saw in a theater was a decade ago.
ETA: That was only because the kid had just finished her Air Force Basic Training and wanted to see one of the Harry Potter movies, before that was sometime in Bill Clinton’s first term.
Tommy
As a former season ticket holder of that team, which I don’t even feel comfortable typing out the name anymore, and somebody who worked in the industry in the DC area where Snyder made all his money to buy said team (and had friends that worked for him), to say the dude is a “total tool” would be an understatement. If you want your skin to crawl just head to the City Paper, who has had an ongoing feud with “Danny Boy” for years, and do a search.
His dick moves, and many not even team related, would take hours to detail. But my favorite is when he bought a huge mansion on the Potomac, couldn’t see the river from his house, so he just gutted the property of every tree, breaking about every law on the books. But when you are worth billions you just sue and drop money here or there and buy your way out of it.
I mean the dude is such a dick he even found a way to piss off his fellow billionaire neighbors. I would think that takes some effort!
Now off to watch the holiday episode of Sherlock! That should be an OK way to start this Sunday morning since we will have to wait until 2017 for any other new episodes.
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: Spoiler: David Cross isn’t in it, so I can’t say “I blue myself!” at a theater showing Chipmunks. That reduces whatever entertainment value this movie had from nil to negative.
Although Tony Hale is, so there’s always “And that’s why you don’t use a one-armed person to scare someone!”
ThresherK (GPad)
Hey, if the calendar still said 1957, Washington Washingtons would still have another old racial problem to conquer being the last NFL team to win a black player.
Seems they went 5-30-3 in the last 3 years before they joined the entire rest of the league. And I’m not looking it up but I’ll guess none of those new upstart AFLers could afford to hobble their on-field abilities with the monochrome personnel policy.
ThresherK (GPad)
@ThresherK (GPad): PS FYautocorrect. That’s sign a black player not win a black player.
different-church-lady
Oh those poor, misunderstood Trump supporters! If only some kind soul would talk to them!
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: Nothing changes until it starts to hurt the merchandise sales.
different-church-lady
@Elizabelle: They’re Hateful. What would you expect?
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy: I hope his basement flooded every spring.
Another Holocene Human
@different-church-lady: Wow, why did I click on that? Kosdrama is the worst.
different-church-lady
@Another Holocene Human: You clicked on it because I desperately needed a companion for my facepalming. You did it for me. And don’t think I don’t appreciate it.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: That is why Roger Goddell doesn’t have the stones to tell that dirtbag to do somehing about that sorry excuse of a field. I dread the Seahawks playing there.
Blondie
@Tommy: My husband and I are longstanding fans of the Washington semi-pro football team – hubbo calls them the Washington Cicadas, ’cause they only show up to compete every 17 years. (He’s also suggested changing their logo to a potato.)
We figure the team is cursed by its owner – Dan “Fvck YOU!” Snyder has been voted the very worst owner in ALL of professional sports. We have a working hypothesis that the team gets so many really, really bad officiating calls b/c the officials hate him, Roger Good(hair)ell hates him, and the fans hate him. Nothing will change until he changes or sells the team.
burnspbesq
A protest at a Cowboys game seems disturbingly likely to end in gunplay.
Drunk, amped-up, armed Tesxans? What could possibly go wrong?
Steve from Antioch
Yes, we have a bunch of men running around inflicting injuries on each other that will result in debilitating conditions and, in many cases, brain damage down the road.
But the important thing here is not to call the team a naughty name.
Fucking pathetic wankers.
Mnemosyne
Yet another reason it’s nice to live in a blue state — California has officially banned high school and college sports teams from using “Redskins” as the team name, effective 1/1/2016.
Steve from Antioch
We like ourselves, don’t we?
Zinsky
What makes it most offensive is that these billionaire NFL teams and owners pay little or no income tax, yet are always more than ready to take tax hand-outs from cities to relocate or stay in that city. They also use their location as financial blackmail to extort dedicated sales taxes and other revenue-sharing schemes which end up looting the public purse…