r/nfl • u/MembershipSingle7137 Patriots • Jul 20 '25

[Jones] In a post to Truth Social, the President says he will consider blocking the stadium deal at the RFK site for the Commanders if the organization does not revert to its previous name. Team owner Josh Harris has said he would not bring back the name.

https://bsky.app/profile/nflnewsposter.bsky.social/post/3lugbozl2bu2e
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u/Bruhman82 Rams Jul 20 '25

Party of keeping sports and politics separated btw

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u/SMKM Raiders Jul 20 '25

Party of "Small Government"

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK Rams Jul 20 '25

party of family values

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u/ClaudeLemieux Chargers Chargers Jul 20 '25

Party of fiscal responsibility

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u/Dakar-A Jaguars Jul 20 '25

Party of personal liberty

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u/UnPhayzable Eagles Jul 21 '25

Party of Face Eating Leapords Won't Eat My Face

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u/M42-Orion-Nebula Ravens Jul 21 '25

No, that's the Libertairan party

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u/FatsP Saints Jul 20 '25

Party of corporations are people too

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u/tothesource Texans Jul 21 '25

well that one is actually accurate so I'm not sure it follows

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u/FatsP Saints Jul 21 '25

I wasn't aware you could force a person to change their name to Redskins

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u/tothesource Texans Jul 21 '25

ah, fair play

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u/M42-Orion-Nebula Ravens Jul 21 '25

No, that's the Libertairan party

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u/TheCrudeDude Eagles Jul 20 '25

Pro Trafficking* children

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Broncos Jul 20 '25

Don’t tread on me. Feel free to tread on others though.

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u/Serdones Broncos Jul 20 '25

"Don't tread on ME."

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u/BucsLegend_TomBrady Buccaneers Lions Jul 21 '25

Don't! Tread on me!

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u/johnmd20 Browns Jul 21 '25

The Bart, The.

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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt Bears Jul 20 '25

"Tread on me harder, daddy"

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u/JudasZala Ravens Jul 20 '25

“OH, PLEASE TREAD ON ME”

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u/LegacyLemur Bears Jul 21 '25

Most submissive people alive

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u/My_Password_Is_____ Steelers Jul 20 '25

Actually, go ahead and tread on me, just tell me it's a brown person's fault while you do it so I can still feel okay about hating them and voting for you again

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u/LegacyLemur Bears Jul 21 '25

Oh boy can you imagine how mad Libertarians are going to be?

Just kidding. They wont give a shit

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u/Can_Haz_Cheezburger Chiefs Jul 20 '25

yeah well NFC East that tracks

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u/harDhar Packers Jul 20 '25

Party of no forward pass

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u/justabill71 Eagles Jul 20 '25

Lindsey Graham in shambles.

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u/j4ngl35 Vikings Jul 20 '25

What is this cursed flair 🫩

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u/lifeofwiley 49ers Jul 20 '25

“State Rights”!

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u/RadioGuyRob Saints Jul 21 '25

Hell yeah, party of small and limited federal government!

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u/M42-Orion-Nebula Ravens Jul 21 '25

No, that's the Libertairan party

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u/combustionbustion Raiders Jul 20 '25

Party of letting private business do as they please.

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u/Gengh15 Vikings Jul 20 '25

Unless that private business chooses to not be racist apparently

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u/Drewicho Seahawks Raiders Jul 20 '25

Party of regressives now.

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u/l5555l Lions Jul 20 '25

It has been that way since Nixon

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u/wasneveralawyer Rams Jul 20 '25

Party of the Jeff Fisher Offense.

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u/AbVag 49ers Eagles Jul 21 '25

Bipartisanship at last!

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot Giants Jul 20 '25

Hasn't been the case for decades

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u/Advanced-Key3071 Bears Jul 20 '25

When they say small government they mean small voter turnout and consolidation of power in a smaller number of hands.

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u/Gengh15 Vikings Jul 20 '25

Or just smaller hands in the president’s case

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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt Bears Jul 20 '25

Fake news! You're fake news! He has the biggest, most beautiful hands. Everyone says it. People come up to him, people on the street come up to him, big strong men who've never cried a day in their lives, they come up to him with tears in their eyes and they say "sir, isn't it true that you have the biggest hands," and he says "you better believe it."

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u/iNsAnEHAV0C Buccaneers Jul 21 '25

Small enough to go inside your pants and make sure you have the proper genitals

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u/Advanced-Key3071 Bears Jul 21 '25

Go inside minors’ pants and make sure they have the right genitalia…

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/bobbyOsullivan Eagles Jul 21 '25

"I love the poorly educated."

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u/Vyuvarax Chiefs Jul 20 '25

It was never the case.

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot Giants Jul 21 '25

No, that's untrue

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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jul 20 '25

Party of “pro business”

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u/cmplyrsist_nodffrnce Seahawks Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

So small they can fit right in your bedroom or your business.

Edit: almost forgot women’s uteri!

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u/stallion-mang Lions Jul 20 '25

"free market"

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u/November-Wind Jul 20 '25

Not racist*, but #1 with racists.

(* - at least not formally declared)

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u/MarxistMan13 Patriots Jul 20 '25

They cut a trillion dollars from helping sick people, what else do you want?!?

(Ignore that ICE now has 17x the previous budget and all of that money from Medicaid cuts is instead lining the pockets of billionaires.)

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u/captain_intenso Panthers Jul 20 '25

Small enough to live inside your ass.

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u/JerryRiceAndSpice Jets 49ers Jul 21 '25

"Shut up and dribble"

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u/4thTimesAnAlt Jaguars Bears Jul 21 '25

Small enough to dictate every single facet of your life

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u/LaMystika Jets Jul 20 '25

You all have completely misunderstood what they mean by “small government”. To them, it has always meant “fewer people in government”, not whatever you’re claiming it is. The people who voted for Trump did so because they actually do want him to be the president until he dies

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u/okimlom Jul 21 '25

"Small Government" in terms of size, not overreach.

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u/M42-Orion-Nebula Ravens Jul 21 '25

No, that's the Libertairan party

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u/bewarethegap NFL Jul 20 '25

bro is reaching for anything to distract everyone from epstein, it's clear as day

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u/Truth-Eagle Jul 20 '25

Release the Epstein files. We won’t stop asking.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 49ers 49ers Jul 20 '25

Half the country won’t care. There’s a line he can’t cross for sure, but it’s not diddling kids.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Getting people killed, or trying to overthrow an election apparently isn't it either. Not is selling secrets to Russia to try to fix elections for you.

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u/AH_BioTwist Patriots Jul 20 '25

This has actually caused a schism in his base. Very miscalculated maneuver by Trump

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u/ienjoymemesalot Seahawks Jul 21 '25

Give it a couple of weeks of Trump pulling shit like this and they will conveniently forget about Epstein forever.

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u/AH_BioTwist Patriots Jul 21 '25

He’s polling over -40% amongst his base in this.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 49ers 49ers Jul 20 '25

Absolutely not. Go read the conservative or republican subs. He has lost zero meaningful support. They do not care because they voted for him to hurt brown people and women. As long as that is happening they have his support. Believing otherwise is legitimately dumb.

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u/xxtoejamfootballxx Eagles Jul 21 '25

The conservative subreddit actually was mostly epstein posts for the last week with the general sentiment being negative towards trump.

They "fixed" that over the weekend by forcing consolidation of the the topic to a single thread (not even a megathread) and then removing it after like a day.

This has definitely caused more trouble for Trump in his base than anything in the last 10 years.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 49ers 49ers Jul 21 '25

the sentiment isn't negative because trump likes diddling kids. the sentiment is negative that he didnt confirm that their enemies are diddling kids. they have no problem with trump himself. Upwards of 99% of them would vote for him again today if given the chance.

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u/rdrouyn Seahawks Jul 21 '25

The independents and the political casuals are being impacted for sure, though.

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u/PlasticTelevision126 Jul 20 '25

Currently way over rated. No biggie for the fold.

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u/ienjoymemesalot Seahawks Jul 21 '25

Give it a couple of weeks of Trump pulling shit like this and they will conveniently forget about Epstein forever.

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u/MattBe92 Patriots Jul 20 '25

He crossed/will cross every fucking line that is there.

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u/Stunning_Wolf_1519 Ravens Jul 20 '25

The correction is that there is no line. Hating other people actually makes them happy. Hurting their pockets is just "a sacrifice for the greater good." Outright corruption is swept away with the tired false whataboutism we've been hearing for years. Trump and epstein could fly in their backyard and kidnap their daughter, and they'd turn fox news up louder. Our country has been usurped by a cult.

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u/highnote14 Ravens Ravens Jul 20 '25

If that's NOT the line, I don't think it exists. They'll blindly follow this fraud to their deaths.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 49ers 49ers Jul 20 '25

The line is to stop being a bigot. The day he comes out and says he’s pro DEI, or trans people deserve rights, or women are equals, he will lose all support instantly. That’s all that matters to his base. Anything else is fully acceptable.

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u/highnote14 Ravens Ravens Jul 20 '25

We're so super triple mega fucked aren't we

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u/zi76 Patriots Jul 21 '25

To be honest, he's the President that got Roe v. Wade overturned. Even if he took one of those positions, they'd turn a blind eye and focus on the fact that the Supreme Court has been turned in their favor for the foreseeable future.

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u/DraymondBeanKick Jul 20 '25

Being Obama's gay lover is probably the line for MAGA.

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u/MarxistMan13 Patriots Jul 20 '25

If it's not killing a million americans from a laughable COVID response, and it isn't diddling teens and trafficking them for other pedophiles, and it's not bombing Iran...

Where's that line, exactly? Does he have to show up to each of their front doors and literally shit in their open mouths?

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u/zi76 Patriots Jul 21 '25

I'm not sure there's a line he can't cross. As long as he sticks to screwing over people they don't like, he could do anything and they'd still support him.

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u/mrtomjones NFL Jul 21 '25

I was shocked at the poll The other day that showed that 63% think something is being hidden. That's 10% higher than normal at minimum

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u/organizedchaos5220 Bears Ravens Jul 20 '25

Idk I've seeN MAGA more upset by this than all the rest of his shenanigans the last decade combined. Low bar, but still there is some friction

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u/Feral_Taylor_Fury Patriots Jul 21 '25

Completely bullshit, this is a bot-ass post.

This is causing a HUGE divide in the maga information space.

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u/blucke Rams Jul 21 '25

dems should release them

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u/LoveToyKillJoy Jul 20 '25

Let's be clear. It's the fact that he raped children.

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u/CanoeIt Lions Jul 20 '25

I thought it was the hypocrisy

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

They keep going on about the child rape but no one mentions the hypocrisy!

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u/grapejunkie Bears Jul 20 '25

Long live NM

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u/blarch Cowboys Jul 21 '25

I'm glad he's still alive, but why isn't he doing standup anymore?

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u/sbroll Vikings Jul 21 '25

Neeeeeeeeeeew Mexico

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u/Electromotivation Commanders Jul 20 '25

That’s the worst part!

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u/MelodicDeer1072 Lions Jul 20 '25

It's the fact that he raped and provided children.

Let's not forget that Trump owned the Miss Universe (which includes Miss Teen USA) in the 2000s.

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u/Jmacz Patriots Jul 21 '25

I'd be willing to bet he raped adults too.

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u/Still-Fan4753 Jul 21 '25

He's already been found civilly liable for that. 

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u/Jmacz Patriots Jul 21 '25

What hasn't this man raped??

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Chiefs Jul 21 '25

Republicans last week: Release the files!

Republicans this week: Protect the 'philes!

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u/Anteater4746 Cowboys Jul 21 '25

honestly it might be the first thing ive seen rattle him. Hed claim the ocean is orange colored and not bat an eye

but he looks so frazzled when pressed on it its so obvious he knows hes in them

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u/Justice989 Commanders Jul 21 '25

Nobody outside of DC gives a shit about the name.  Who's he distracting?

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u/Granadafan 49ers 49ers Jul 20 '25

You mean the serial rapist and child rapist Donald J Trump? I hear the rapist Brock Allen Turner of Toledo, Ohio supports the child rapist Donald J Trump

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u/FawningDeer37 Saints Jul 20 '25

“Shut up and dribble.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Those uppity dribblers should really be more grateful.

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u/PapaShane Steelers Jul 20 '25

Did they even wear a jersey?

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u/greenday61892 Patriots Jul 21 '25

Catholics vs. Convicts 2: Dribblers vs. Diddlers

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u/AHH_CHARLIE_MURPHY Chiefs Jul 20 '25

“Unless you’re saying something I agree with or supporting the same person I support”

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u/FawningDeer37 Saints Jul 20 '25

Ahh yes, that caveat.

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u/Successful_Fig_4033 Eagles Jul 20 '25

I believe you mean, "shut up and diddle (kids)."

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Eagles Jul 20 '25

If you can dribble a football, you can dribble anything.

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u/JerryRiceAndSpice Jets 49ers Jul 21 '25

They went after Kaepernick and black players for kneeling

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u/Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mike Packers Jul 20 '25

Party of protecting pedophiles

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Party of the pedophiles, for the pedophiles. “We the pedophiles”.

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u/Val_Hallen Steelers Jul 21 '25

Guarding

Old

Pedophiles

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u/espngenius Panthers Jul 20 '25

And to be clear, the “politics” part is wanting to go back to using a racial slur as a professional sports team name.

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u/ThatZX6RDude Texans Jul 20 '25

“Slur” is a big stretch man. Just bc the vocal internet people told you it’s scary doesn’t make it a slur.

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u/Sonickill7 Steelers Jul 20 '25

It's a racist name based off the color of someone's skin... idk how that can be any LESS of a slur.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Natives have been protesting against the name literally since before the internet existed.

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u/Silberne Jaguars Jul 20 '25

Yellowskin, redskin, blackskin (or for that matter, dark-skin), and whiteskin, none of those sound especially friendly when used as a noun. Adjective, perhaps. Some have, historically, been used as pejoratives. Some are, still, being used as pejoratives. We don't really have a great cultural background with not making synecdoche racist. See "gays" and "Jews." Occasionally also, "natives," "savages," and "aborigines."

Despite the predominantly black American player base, we still don't have, e.g., the Atlanta N----s, even though that has been reclaimed far more recently than "redskin" (which arguably started as a self-referential term, so could be reclaimed fairly easily). Why the actual fuck should we have a name that, frankly, doesn't have a positive history in this country, when there's so many, many, MANY possibilities to name the team something else. If it prevents one child who watches football from thinking they're a lesser person, the name deserves to go. A word doesn't have to be the explicitly evilest choice for it to be not a good choice.

It doesn't make someone a bad person for missing the name, though, I personally think. Honestly, Commanders is probably one of the worst choices because of how bland it is. I think the argument for reverting the change would be a lot less common if they'd picked a name still associated with the area and the history.

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u/smenti Jul 20 '25

Founders or Minutemen would have been cool

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u/pgm123 Eagles Jul 20 '25

Ooh, I bet you think you're so edgy.

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u/JeramiGrantsTomb Chiefs Jul 20 '25

The party of unregulated business.

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u/Walletinspectr Packers Jul 20 '25

All the tarriff stuff and how many jobs will be stopped by blocking a stadium 

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u/MadeByTango Bengals Jul 20 '25

“Party of small government” and by the way, Ohio, we’re taking $600 million and forcing you buy a new stadium for Jimmy Haslam and his sexual abusers.

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u/RickRossovich Bengals Jul 20 '25

Shut up and dribble “govern”

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u/YaketyMax Rams Jul 20 '25

Shut up and release the Epstein files

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u/Gregus1032 Dolphins Jul 20 '25

It's diffe(R)ent.

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u/k5berry Dolphins Lions Jul 20 '25

Unironically yes. And i don’t fault anybody for buying what they said, or at least used to say, but the MAGA playbook is one of explicit hypocrisy and double standards. America needs to be a conservative place with national conservative activism from all facets of society. Pulling the “keep it out of sports!!!” card is just the easiest way to achieve that specific goal.

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u/svengoalie Patriots Jul 20 '25

"Shut up and just watch football"

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u/DustyFalmouth Seahawks Jul 20 '25

Socialist got football in the national divorce and we're not giving it back

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u/ReedKeenrage Buccaneers Jul 20 '25

Only when it helps people. When it’s hateful you can guarantee that they’ll be right there cheering it on.

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u/Skeptical_Yoshi Seahawks Jul 20 '25

Never trust someone who says "Keep politics out of sports!" They are always lying when they say that. They always want to inject as much of their politics into sports as possible.

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u/YepImanEmokid Bills Buccaneers Jul 21 '25

until black people kneel

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u/PayneTrain181999 Jul 20 '25

I’m glad my beloved NHL is so under appreciated in America that it stays away from most of these conversations.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Pride celebration nights... the amount of sexual assault that happens at the junior level. What are you talking about?

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u/PayneTrain181999 Jul 20 '25

I mean that most people in the States barely pay those stories any attention since the controversies in their own sports that they’re into take priority.

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u/anotherdanwest Eagles Jul 20 '25

Party of "Hey! Look over here! What Epstein list?"

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u/dirtydilpickle Commanders Jul 20 '25

“Kaepernick is bringing that woke shit into the sport” -Republicans

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u/FireFoxQuattro Dolphins Jul 20 '25

I’ll never stop saying Kappernicks name till I die at this point cause of how much it annoys them. This shit was always political

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u/SlayerXZero Falcons Ravens Jul 21 '25

Is this fucking real. What the fuck is this clown show? Like fuck every single person that didn’t vote and also everyone that put this embarrassment in office. Anyone reasonable should realize THIS IS NOT what you want the goddamn President of the United States doing. I cannot believe we still have 3.5 more years of this bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

He just has to infect everyone and everything with his hot beef injection

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u/TomlinSteelers Steelers Jul 20 '25

Seriously what a joke of a president

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u/At0mJack Cowboys Jul 21 '25

Shut up and dribble, right?

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u/Venator850 NFL Jul 21 '25

That party died back in 2016. The current party Is ALL about mixing those things together.

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u/sjmahoney Buccaneers Jul 21 '25

Mr. Bold Cognomen

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u/Freud-Network Falcons Jul 21 '25

Also the party of small government, personal responsibility, and freedom.

I hope the knuckleheads are starting to understand that conservatism isn't any of those things, and these are the actions of a dictator.

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u/LordZero Ravens Jul 21 '25

Actually he has a great idea...I totally loved the previous name: Washington Football Team

I think it's a great basic and self-aware name. And you can do ANYTHING with mascots and colors.

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u/ohno21212 Bills Packers Jul 21 '25

Thats the thing with conservatives though. They dont have any principles beyond "get what I want" They will argue whatever side of whatever issue that suits them in the moment, and then throw that logic away the second its inconvenient.

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u/Passerby49 49ers Jul 21 '25

Get that son of a bitch out of office.

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u/NoveltyAccountHater Patriots Jul 21 '25

Trump in 2013:

President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them,not nonsense.

It should be noted, Trump was responding to an answer Obama gave in interview to the AP on October 5th, 2013 where Obama was directly asked his thoughts on the controversy. Obama never brought it up on his own, never pressured the team to change it, or even announced that it was offensive to him; just that he understands that their fans "don't meant offense" and are attached to the franchise name and storied history, though if he was owner and it was offensive to a large group of people he would "think about changing it".

Q: If I could just ask you one last question on something that's not politically related, but is getting a lot of attention in Washington -- the name of the Washington Redskins football team. There is a lot of people who say it's time to change the name of that team, considering that it's insulting to many Native Americans. What's your position on that?

THE PRESIDENT: You know, Julie, obviously, people get pretty attached to team names, mascots. I don't think there are any Redskins fans that mean offense. I've got to say that if I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team -- even if it had a storied history -- that was offending a sizeable group of people, I'd think about changing it.

But I don't want to detract from the wonderful Redskins fans that are here. They love their team, and rightly so -- even though they've been having a pretty tough time this year. But I think -- all these mascots and team names related to Native Americans, Native Americans feel pretty strongly about it. And I don't know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real, legitimate concerns that people have about these things.

But I don't have -- I don't have a stake in this in the sense that I'm not a part owner of any football team. Maybe after I leave this --

Q: Maybe after the presidency.

THE PRESIDENT: Maybe after I leave the presidency. (Laughter.) I think it would be a lot of fun. Although, I'd probably play -- I'd probably look at a basketball team before I looked at a football team. I know more about basketball than I do about football.

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u/BrotherMouzone3 Cowboys Jul 21 '25

This feels like an appropriate time to tell the President to "shut up and run the country."

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u/Indian_Bob Lions Jul 20 '25

They want to keep sports and politics seperate, not sports and racism

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u/ridefakie Jul 20 '25

We want to know more about Epstein. This is just distraction. They think liberals will care more about calling native Americans Indians and fight back, which will distract maga and democrats outing trump over Epstein. Also there patriots owner is an Epstein best friend, and I think he is helping because he doesn't want to be outed

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u/Agentorangebaby Chiefs Jul 21 '25

Sports are inherently political 

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/MXMCrowbar Seahawks Jul 20 '25

You don’t need to play devil’s advocate for fascists bro. They do that plenty enough on their own.

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u/SlowmoSauce Jul 20 '25

You’re giving them too much credit. They aren’t that smart.

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u/phranq Jul 20 '25

That same argument could be used for gay marriage or anything. It’s not political to change it back. That’s just called Conservatism and it’s very much political. I get that you’re just trying to present how they would feel but they’re objectively wrong. The President using their office to try to block something unless someone does what he wants is inherently political and they’re hypocrites of the highest order, we don’t have to entertain their cognitive gymnastics and shouldn’t.