Redskins stripped of trademarks:

[89Hen]

The Redskins logo was not one of the things stripped from Snyder's team. Looks like we may have some legal issues here.

[bluehenbillk]

Personally, with their decades of inept play I find the Buffalo Bills nickname to be disparaging and prejudicial.

[TheDancinMonarch]

Personally, with their decades of inept play I find the Buffalo Bills nickname to be disparaging and prejudicial.

[JMU DJ]

The Redskins logo was not one of the things stripped from Snyder's team. Looks like we may have some legal issues here.

I do know that the Redskins logo was created by a native American (Wetzel? Think that was the name I read earlier... somewhere). So there's that.

Also, this beer is disrespectful to us Marmots!

[BDKJMU]

So for 82 years the Patent and Trademark Office didn't have a problem with the name, and now all of a sudden they do?

So you're saying it's bad to change a position or thought on something?

Well DC is the land of flip flopping...

[kalm]

So you're saying it's bad to change a position or thought on something?

Well DC is the land of flip flopping...

Changing your position (even if it's the right thing to do) is for unprincipled, wishy washy, liberal pussies!

[andy7171]

Please give other examples of truly offensive names.

God. Walk down your micro brew row at your local grocery store and just pick one out.

I always thought of you as a smart fella, guess I was badly mistaken.

Again. He's an eagles fan living in Metro DC. He's loving this controversy. Just wait until DeSean catches his first TD vs Philthy.

[dbackjon]

Anyone who doesn't see a difference between Redskins and any other name is a jackass.

Or in denial,
Or trying to be hip and ironic and failing

[kalm]

Anyone who doesn't see a difference between Redskins and any other name is a jackass.

Or in denial,
Or trying to be hip and ironic and failing

Sure. But do you want the government defining what is and what isn't porn?

[kalm]

I think 89 might find this agreeable.

Washington, D.C., anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who has been on a long campaign to name pretty much everything after Ronald Reagan, said renaming Washington’s football team the “Washington Reagans” is a “great idea.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... g-redskins" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[89Hen]

God. Walk down your micro brew row at your local grocery store and just pick one out.

I always thought of you as a smart fella, guess I was badly mistaken.

Again. He's an eagles fan living in Metro DC. He's loving this controversy. Just wait until DeSean catches his first TD vs Philthy.

I don't give a rats ass if they were called the Greasy Wops and their mascot was a guy in a wife beater. And if DeSean catches a TD against the Eagles, I guess the Skins may actually cover once and not lose by 30.

[89Hen]

Or in denial,
Or trying to be hip and ironic and failing

Sure. But do you want the government defining what is and what isn't porn?

They already do.

http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/

[JMU DJ]

I think 89 might find this agreeable.

Washington, D.C., anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who has been on a long campaign to name pretty much everything after Ronald Reagan, said renaming Washington’s football team the “Washington Reagans” is a “great idea.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... g-redskins" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What 89 might also find interesting (and may become Portugal's new #1 fan as a result) is that the best (arguable) player in the world was named after former President Ronald Reagan.

Asked about how his parents came to name him, former Manchester United star Ronaldo told AS: "Ronaldo was because my mother was always an admirer of Ronald Reagan, who was president of the United States, and wanted to give me his name as a gesture of admiration for him.

[89Hen]

So I'm being labelled a bleeding heart liberal and a conservative all in one thread.

[89Hen]

The Redskins franchise will make TONS of money by changing their name, as long as they pick something good. I don't think they will get rid of the burgundy and gold, but if it were my team, I'd consider RWB like the rest of DC's teams. Lots of Skins fans actually hate the colors anyway (I think Andy is in that camp), or at least hate when they wear yellow pants and burgundy shirts (I actually prefer that combo).

One name that was thrown about for at least a little while was "Red Tails" named after the Tuskeegee Airmen. Kinda meh on that, but it's better than Wizards.

[kalm]

I think 89 might find this agreeable.



http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... g-redskins" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What 89 might also find interesting (and may become Portugal's new #1 fan as a result) is that the best (arguable) player in the world was named after former President Ronald Reagan.

Asked about how his parents came to name him, former Manchester United star Ronaldo told AS: "Ronaldo was because my mother was always an admirer of Ronald Reagan, who was president of the United States, and wanted to give me his name as a gesture of admiration for him.

Well Ronaldo's mom was a dumb Portuguese whore!

[CID1990]

Who said they should be named the Foreskins because DC is full of dickheads?

That one gets my vote

[Skjellyfetti]

Who said they should be named the Foreskins because DC is full of dickheads?

Says the State Department employee.

Psst. You are one of the dickheads.

[BDKJMU]

We've been down this road before. 2009:

"Court rejects appeal over Redskins trademark

...U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Native Americans calling the pro club's trademark "disparaging."

At issue was whether plaintiffs were decades too late in filing a lawsuit, or whether that registered trademark should have been denied years ago since as plaintiffs claim " 'redskins' is today and has been historically a disparaging racial epithet that brings them into contempt, ridicule, and disrepute."

The legal dispute is over what's called the doctrine of laches -- negligence or delay in asserting a claim.

The justices without comment refused to intervene in the dispute, effectively ending the suit.

A lawsuit was first filed in 1992. Among the plaintiffs is Suzan Shown Harjo of Washington, a Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee and a longtime advocate for Native American rights.

The Redskins name and logo was adopted in 1933 when the team was based in Boston, Massachusetts, and had been known as the Braves. In a legal brief filed with the court, the team said the name was changed to honor the Redskins coach at the time, William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz, a Native American.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a formal trademark in 1967, and it has been renewed several times since. The team has said it has spent "millions of dollars ... promoting, advertising, and protecting its mark."
A Patent Office appeals board in 1999 canceled the trademarks, but the Redskins successfully appealed in federal court.

The question for the courts was interpretation of a federal law that allows cancellation of a registration "at any time" if the trademark comprises "matter which may disparage ... persons, living or dead ... or bring them into contempt, or disrepute."

A federal appeals court ultimately decided that the law's protections did not apply in this case and that the suit was filed too late. Native Americans have said the trademark should never have been granted in the first place....."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/16/sco ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[andy7171]

Secretly I hope they do change the name. Because the team is fucked until Danny boys son dies as the owner. Assuming he never fathers a child. Either way I'll be long gone. I dropped rooting for the bullets when they folded to the PC crowd.

[CID1990]

Who said they should be named the Foreskins because DC is full of dickheads?

Says the State Department employee.

Psst. You are one of the dickheads.

you have no clue, sweetheart

I have never, nor will I ever serve in DC

[JoltinJoe]

A Patent Office appeals board in 1999 canceled the trademarks, but the Redskins successfully appealed in federal court.

The question for the courts was interpretation of a federal law that allows cancellation of a registration "at any time" if the trademark comprises "matter which may disparage ... persons, living or dead ... or bring them into contempt, or disrepute."

A federal appeals court ultimately decided that the law's protections did not apply in this case and that the suit was filed too late. Native Americans have said the trademark should never have been granted in the first place....."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/16/sco ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The new challenge was filed in 2006 by some very young petitioners -- much younger than the original petitioners -- who are trying to argue that their petition could not have been brought earlier because of their age.

[JohnStOnge]

It's really bad to have the national government into controlling thought to this extent.

[89Hen]

It's really bad to have the national government into controlling thought to this extent.

Feds didn't say they had to change their name.

[JohnStOnge]

It's really bad to have the national government into controlling thought to this extent.

Feds didn't say they had to change their name.

Yes I know. But this is still a thought control effort.