http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Trademark-board-rules-against-Redskins-name-5561236.php

when are people going to wake up to the fact that government overreach is going to topple this country? you get one wrong person in power in some bureaucracy and they can almost unilaterally change the law and business.

All this gd PC bull****. Let's change the name of this football team now after all these years because we don't want anyone to be offended

it's not really that red. it's the trademark office deciding 70 years later that the name is no longer ok. this is making up the rules as you go along bs.

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this is making up the rules as you go along bs.

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this is making up the rules as you go along bs

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That's pretty much how the government operates.

So they will now be the Native American Skins?

New name: scumbag pols.

Totally agree with the decision. As one with Native American roots (3/16) myself, I'm offended by the name.

New name : The Washington Whities

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Being from Texas, I hate the Redskins. Always have. Hate. Hate. Hate.

Yet.....

This could cause me to buy some gear.

As one with 1/4 blood Native American I am outraged by this decision. This has nothing to do with Indians and has everything to do with the corrupting influence of political correctness.

Read the ruling. The court is saying that the original decision to provide the trademark was wrong...that it was a negative stereo type at the time of the original ruling. They are reading history through the eyes of their PC present.

Garbage.

Dan Snyder should keep the Redskins name and update their logo to be an Indian holding potatoes.

Would your attitude be the same if the name was the Washington Honkies?




And no, you can't take it back. PC police wins all the time

So the Trademark office is taking back the trademark?

Isn't there a name for that?

Hey didn't Merica defeat the indians twice.

this country is doomed, what happened to winners makes the rules.

this isn't a result of PC anything. They originally lost in 1992 and this was their final chance at court with the patent office. They can appeal again, but they'll most likely lose by mid 2015

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this isn't a result of PC anything. They originally lost in 1992 and this was their final chance at court with the patent office. They can appeal again, but they'll most likely lose by mid 2015

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You're an accountant. Shut the **** up.

Can't wait for the GLBT lobby to get the packers to change their name.

^I am sure Anise Parker is already working on it with some grad students from the University of Wosconsin

Washington Leaches?

mookie ftw

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So the Trademark office is taking back the trademark?

Isn't there a name for that?

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I see what you did there.

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You're an accountant. Shut the **** up.

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not anymore, broseph

for the record we should start a campaign to eliminate FIGHTING Irish.

The Washington Elizabeth Warrens

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this isn't a result of PC anything. They originally lost in 1992 and this was their final chance at court with the patent office. They can appeal again, but they'll most likely lose by mid 2015

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Setting policy because people are thin skinned little *****es is most definitely liberal pc idiocy.

^^^^Is that the slippery slope they just fell down?
A short, bearded, ginger that likes to box can go say the Notre Dame nick name and mascot are offensive and the trademark office will not renew the trademark, right??

They should change it to the Washington Rednecks. I would love to see the silouhette of Kenny Powers on that helmet. Plus, it would show the indigenous peeps how to deal with a slur... embrace it! You don't hear the Irish complaining about Notre Dame. How 'bout them Ragin' Cajuns? Yokels all over Appalachia would be sporting their gear!



I bleed Maroon and I wipe burnt orange.

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You're an accountant. Shut the **** up.

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What did you change to, and when did you do it?

[This message has been edited by Mac Gregor (edited 6/18/2014 1:27p).]

i'm a PE analyst and have been since March. I still use my CPA, obv, but i'm taking the straight finance route and working my way up

Glad this happened.

I think a lot of people on this board would think that a team with a name like the Wetb*cks, Spics, Negroes, etc..., would be okay.

The team was originally named the braves. Boston Braves. They changed their name to differentiate themselves from the Boston Braves baseball team. This wasn't an attempt to honor anyone.

Just because you accept it as a team name doesn't make it right.

Many of you would have accepted A&M as a segregated campus. Just because it was segregated for many years doesn't make it right. Maybe your relatives accepted a segregated A&M.

The Patebt Office isn't saying that they don't have the right to the name. They just won't allow them to trademark the name. A business decision (free market) will force the change.

This is the correct decision.

Many people disagree with decisions when they are first made. They evolve and eventually agree.

Many Texans didn't agree with the end of slavery, Brown vs. Board, or the end if segregation when the government or courts ruled on these issues and they became reality.

This was the correct decision.