Well, the Redskins moved from Washington, DC to Maryland and I'm still a fan!

Seriously though, I would be devastated if they were to move to - say, Los Angeles? Not that there's any danger of them moving but still, I don't know how I would react.

I know that there are a lot of people in Maryland in general and Baltimore in particular who have conflicting emotions about the Colts. It would be weird I think to be from a city that lost one team and got another like St. Louis, Houston, Baltimore, etc.

I guarantee that if the Cowboys were to move to Richmond, or Norfolk (I know it's impossible) I would still loathe those bootlickers!

It's not on the same scale but Richmond lost the AAA Braves a few years ago and now we have the AA Flying Squirrels (San Fransisco Giants farm team). I still root for the Atlanta Braves but not the Gwinnett Braves. I cheer for the Squirrels but I don't care for the Giants.

A number of my friends were Atlanta Braves fans but they have or are gradually switching over to be Nationals fans. Not me, I've got too much Braves stuff to change now.

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I would stay a fan if my team moved but if they moved & changed their team name then it really wouldn't be my team anymore

I am more of a coach fan then a team fan. I grew up watching the Steelers since that is where my Dad was raised. I fell in love with the Nolan style of smash mouth ram the ball down your throat style of play. I stayed a fan when Cower took over since he had same style. Even though I love the steelers I dont follow them as much with new coach, since he sucks.

So if Cower was to ever get a new coaching job I would probably add them to my list of teams I love to watch.

#1 Steelers
#2 Saints (live here so have too, plus Payton is good coach)
#3 & 4 NY Giants and Denver

I like following the last 2 since the QBs are local boys and used to watch them play at Newman.

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How do you feel about all this talk of them changing the name??

With teams moving and towns getting a second team, several somewhat recent ones haven't made sense to me:

1. Houston - they refused to build the Oilers a new stadium and they left for Nashville (thank you Houston) yet just a few years later they build a new place to get an expansion team

2. Cleveland - the Browns move to Baltimore never made sense to me, they had a rabid fan base. Them getting a new team made sense due to the large fan base

There are others but these stand out the most to me.

I was 7 or 8 when the Colts left town in the middle of the snowy night. My mom was from northern Virginia, so it wasn't a hard switch for us/me to the Redskins.

When the Browns moved to Baltimore and the team became the Ravens, I did not care - a) I was in college and b) I didn't care about anything AFC. When I started living and working in Baltimore in the early 00s, I was going to a ton of Ravens games and having fun rooting for them, but I was never really a fan.

The 'Skins being competitive last year brought my attention back to them. And when the Ravens won the Super Bowl and I didn't care, I realized I was just a 'Skins fan (and a Flaco hater).



As far as the Redskins name, I get it to an extent. But... It's not a racial slur. And hasn't been in decades (centuries?). It's hard for me to understand anyone getting worked up by it. Words change their primary meanings from time to time. If you ask most anyone what redskin means they are either going to say a football team or a potato. They aren't thinking "racial slur for Native Americans."

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Well, it's not the topic but you did ask...

I am a Redskins fan. I have been for as long as I can remember. Obviously I'm not offended by the name. Let me explain why, I have numerous reasons.

First, and most importantly, from what I have seen and read the vast majority of people who responded to polls (both recent and months or years ago) have expressed either positive or indifferent answers. Indeed, there was a large group of people who weren't even aware that "Redskins" was supposed to be offensive.

Support of the name among Native Americans is much greater than the detractors. I've done a lot of research about this and have read or watched interviews of both the pro and con sides. What I have learned is that Native Americans by and large don't really care. There is one tribe (the Oneida of New York) who is very vocal in their opposition to the name but when you talk to almost everyone else they don't care.

I keep reading quotes from Native Americans saying the same thing, "We have more problems to worry about like unemployment, alcoholism, suicide, etc. - you know, real world things - than what a professional sports team calls itself. A lot were offended that "once again, the white man is telling us how to think".

Here's one link: Not everyone is offended
...and another: Va Tribe says what's really offensive
Read this one and find out that most Native Americans (90% keeps coming up) have no problem with it: No consensus

Second, along the same lines. Do you know how many high schools use the nickname "Redskins"? And how many of them are majority Native American students or are actually on reservations? Look at this: High School Redskins
or this: Rick Reilly on Redskins

The bottom line for me is that we LOVE our Redskins. Why would we want to call our team by an epithet? We glorify our team's ability to go out and compete at the highest levels. The only people nowadays that would ever use the term Redskins in a derogatory manner are Cowboys, Giants and Eagles fans. And they're not talking about Native Americans when they do so.. they're talking about a group of ethnically diverse players and coaches who play a game somewhere near Washington, DC.

I think it's just another example of PC bullsh!t gone too far. Bob Costas - white guy, Peter King - white guy, Bill Simmons - white guy, etc, etc, ad nauseum.

How about they get off of their high horse soapbox and try to change something meaningful. There are plenty of things in this world that could use a little bit of attention from these grandstanding, politically correct, moronic windbags.

Other than that, I have no opinion...

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I will admit ignorance on this. I didn't realize all this happened until reading comments people were putting on articles announcing his death. I was basing it off what I heard others say about why he left Houston and did not do my own research. I was around 10 when they announced we (Nashville) was getting a team and that's all I really cared about. The only thing I heard was that it was some kind of weird deal by our then mayor to get a team in town. I should have looked deeper into it at some point but all I was seeing was that I now had a NFL team minutes from my house.

Unfortunately Majority Rules Does Not Apply In The US

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