The NFL’s Washington Redskins football fans are on the warpath to get their iconic mascot image and “Redskins” name back. So is the family of the Blackfeet Chief who was the face of the team.
The “Redskins” name, which had been used since 1933 – some ninety years — was abandoned by the “woke” leadership of the wimpy current NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, who fully bought into the radical Diversity Equity, Inclusion (DEI) mindset of the left. Why does anybody listen to this overpaid woke doofus?
The descendants of John Two Guns White Calf, who was prominently featured on the team’s logo from 1972 until 2020, want to restore that proud heritage. He is also the face on the U. S. Indian Head Nickel.
“The fans want him back, and we want him back,” Thomas White Calf, a great nephew, said. “Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history.”
The only people who don’t want him back are the far-left culture warriors who don’t even attend football games, yet demand fans abide by the psychotic causes they embrace.
The woke moronic palefaces in the NFL front office and those that protested the “Redskins” name should be red-faced over their idiotic antics to ban it. These ignorant twits could easily field a team called the “Nitwits”.
There are no people on the planet with red skin. Native American Indians colored their skin red because they believed it was the color of war. One thing the many diverse North American tribes — from the East Coast to the West — had in common was their definition of colors, with red war paint symbolizing blood, strength, energy, power, and success. It was the reason after early settlers did battle with these fierce warriors the terrified settlers called them “redskins.”
The term “redskin” was first recorded in the late 17th century and was applied to the Algonquian peoples generally, but specifically to the Delaware. “Redskin” referred not to the natural skin color of the Delaware, but to their use of vermilion face and body paint. And in what is now South Dakota when the Lakota tribe’s Black Elk prepared for battle at Wounded Knee he said “I painted my face all red.” They did this because it scared hell out of their enemies.
Or maybe what this brouhaha was about is that the politically correct crack pots think the Redskin footballers are guilty of “transracial” fraud, like Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who was head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, who tried to pass herself off as black. Or Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren who passed herself off as an America Indian. Or maybe it’s the lefties in the blue states trying to eliminate as many of their red state rivals as possible.
No matter what, I, and many others encourage the team’s owners to change the name of the team back and stick it to this small minority of twits who in today’s woke environment most likely believe that neither team should lose because it would be bad for the self-esteem of those players with the least amount of points at the end of a game.
The name “Redskins” pays tribute to the ferocity, strength and courage of the Native American warrior and has nothing to do with skin color or is in any way disparaging. Just the opposite. I just wish the management of the Washington team, which hasn’t played in a Super Bowl since 1992, 32 years ago, would live up to its former moniker and show some backbone.
As their song says: “Hail to the Redskins!”
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Speaking Of Football: The NFL Washington team (I refuse to use that stupid new monicker) has a 3-1 record going into its 1 pm game against the Cleveland Browns Sunday, Oct. 6 in D.C.
The 1-3 Browns and their beleaguered, massively overpaid, lawsuit riddled, and criminally suspect quarterback, Deshaun Watson, has been sacked more than any other NFL quarterback this season. The Browns will go up against classy Redskins rookie Jayden Daniels who has posted the highest completion percentage by a QB through their first four games in NFL history (82.1%). He surpassed Tom Brady’s 2007 percentage of 79.2.
Cleveland’s only win came Sept. 15 against the hapless Jacksonville Jaguars while they lost, 20-16, to the Las Vegas Raiders, last Sunday.
Meanwhile, the 0-4 Jaguars of Jacksonville, one of only four NFL cities to never have had a team play in a Super bowl, (the other three being Houston, Detroit, and Cleveland), bumbled their way to their fourth consecutive loss, 24-20, against division rival, Houston’s Texans, now 3-1.
Jacksonville will play at home this Sunday, Oct. 6, against the 2-2 Indianapolis Colts, who beat the previously undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday, 27-24. Historically the Colts don’t fare well in Jacksonville, but the way the Jaguars have been playing this year, the odds makers have made the visitors a three point favorite as of this writing.
One of the most fun spots locally to watch the games is 12 South 2nd Street in Fernandina at PJD’s Beer & Wine Garden. Veterans and their guests can watch at Fernandina’s 626 South 3rd Street’s American Legion Post 54 which also has the NFL Ticket. There are other spots in the area, but PJD’s and the Legion are two of my favorites for sports, cold beer, fun crowds, and bar food.
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Wait! What? Critics including the corporate media that bash Donald Trump never mention his four-year record as president during which the U.S. had secure borders, low inflation, a strong economy, no wars, low crime, and no unions shutting down the economy. He also initiated the Abraham Accords that had Middle East countries siding up to Israel and isolating a rogue Iran.
All of Trump’s success has been completely reversed under the Biden-Harris administration. Harris is now trying to “Kamaflage” her record of the past three and one-half years thereby exhibiting why she is totally unfit for the job.
Since Harris is now in charge why doesn’t she fix things now instead of saying she’ll fix them if she is elected? Her VP pick Tim Walz couldn’t answer that question during the Tuesday, Oct. 1, VP debate with JD Vance despite having multiple opportunities to do so. And he and Harris blame Trump, for the Biden-Harris domestic and international generated chaos even though he hasn’t been in office for almost four years…Harris has?
Nothing the clueless cackling klutz Kamala says or does makes any sense.
A President Harris will give Americans everything that the Democrat Party says is best for them i.e. six more Supreme Court justices, a ban on individuals owning fire arms, more states (D.C. and Puerto Rico), the elimination of the filibuster, the end of private healthcare, only electric cars, no fracking, limited drilling, federalized elections, more government spending, higher taxes, government controlled education, more regulations on businesses, higher interest rates and inflation, open borders, weaker penalties for criminals, rogue nations and terrorist organizations threatening the U.S., deadly fentanyl pouring across the border killing our kids, and more than 425,000 convicted foreign murderers and sex offenders roaming our streets.
During their televised debate Tuesday evening, Walz, who appeared visibly stunned the entire time, made several blunders that drew guffaws and gasps. One was when he said he supports school shooters. He may have said it mistakenly, but he clearly said it. Walz also referred to himself as a ‘knucklehead.’ We won’t argue with that.
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First Gentleman Not: It’s been reported that Kamala’s husband, Doug Emhoff, impregnated the family’s nanny and paid her to keep quiet. Now the UK’s Daily Mail is leveling an allegation that he once slapped a former girlfriend in the face so hard that she spun around — in public view outside an A-list gala in France. https://mol.im/a/13916949 .
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who currently hosts a NewsNation show, has blasted mainstream media outlets for failing to follow-up on the Daily Mail’s exclusive about Emhoff assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
America’s most powerful liberal outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have all failed to follow-up on it leading to allegations of hypocrisy from critics including Cuomo, who believes the same outlets would be quick to seize on a similar story about a Trump family member.
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THEY Even Admit Bidenomics Bombed: Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote in a Sept. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed that the economy is “on the path to a soft landing” thus admitting that the U.S. is still on a downward trajectory, years after Covid and Trump’s administration.
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Meanwhile In The Middle East: Wisely ignoring Biden, Israel is blowing up Hezbollah’s military infrastructure and taking out its entire leadership; destroying the murderers in Gaza and its military capacity; and hitting Yemen’s Houthis.
All a befuddled Joe Biden does is shuffle around and mumble, ”ceasefire.” Even while hundreds of Iranian missiles are fired into Israel and Yemen Houthis are firing at U.S. warships this old fool stumbles, fumbles, and mumbles nonsense. Thank God he only has three and a half more months left to screw things up.
The Israelis took out a Hamas leader in his bed in downtown Tehran and sent Iran’s cowardly coffee-koozie-hat wearing muddled mullahs cowering into their bomb shelters terrified to answer the phone, pager, walkie talkie, doorbell or even open the microwave while Israel beats the poop out of its terrorist proxies throughout the Middle East.
It was Biden & Harris that yanked the sanctions on these crazed homicidal Iranian maniacs, enabling them to take in hundreds of billions of dollars to finance their worldwide terrorist mayhem after Trump had them on the financial ropes. Why? Is Biden, his State Department and Defense Department that inept and naïve or is it payback for one of Hunter and Jim Biden’s deals? Otherwise none of it makes sense.
Israel, western European countries, and whoever is in charge in Washington needs to take Republican SC Senator Lindsey Graham’s advice and take out Iran’s oil fields and refineries and Iranian spy ships. Israel will handle that country’s nuclear facilities, sending these crazed Persians back into the stone age.
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Meanwhile Back In The U.S.: Not all state governments wait around for the impotent twits in Washington D.C. to do something following a catastrophic event.
In a story only covered by local Florida media, and intentionally ignored by national corporate media, Tallahassee’s CBS-12 News ran an article Sunday, Sept. 29, headlined, “Operation Blue Ridge: Florida’s multi-state mission to assist in hurricane aftermath.’
“Florida —itself reeling in Helene’s aftermath— has begun sending SAR (search and rescue) teams, helicopters, food, water, emergency management planners and personnel, StarLink connectors, generators, and a long list of additional supplies and help to North Carolina and Tennessee in a charitable sister-state rescue operation Governor Ron DeSantis labeled “Operation Blue Ridge. He also ordered Florida’s National Guard to state ports to make sure the striking nitwits don’t get in the way of ongoing hurricane recovery efforts. Calling a strike in the middle of a disaster isn’t going to do much to enhance the reputation of a union that’s already stained by reports of corruption and mob control.
“There can no longer be any doubt: Florida is the hurricane Boss. And God Bless Governor DeSantis. He will make an amazing President one day, hopefully soon,” wrote part-time Fernandina Beach resident and columnist Jeff Childress in his Monday, Sept. 29 column, Jeff Childers Coffee & Covid coffeeandcovid@substack.com
While Kamala Harris was fund raising and posing for photos on the West Coast and Joe Biden mumbled, coughed, whispered, and bumped into the furniture in his Delaware beach house and the White House, Donald Trump visited storm-ravaged Valdosta, Georgia and brought truckloads of emergency supplies and is working with Elon Musk to coordinate surging StarLink kits to North Carolina as fast as possible
During one TV appearance Biden barked at reporters that he worked “around the clock” on hurricane issues while the next day he said he was on the phone for two hours. It’s obvious this addled old codger has no idea where he is or what he’s doing.
Raise your hand if you’ve heard about striking longshoremen helping with the rebuilding and rescue efforts in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida or other States smacked by Hurricane Helene? Yeh, I didn’t think so. Next to Biden, Harris and Walz, they may be the most despised group in America.
Biden’s ineptitude sparked the satirical online Babylon Bee to generate my favorite headline of the week: “Hezbollah Reaches Out To U.S. For Advice On How To Govern With A Dead Leader”.
Great read this morning!
Hope we can all hang in there until we take what’s left of our country back.
Right on Dave as always – let’s pray that the Dems can’t cheat their way into a victory in November. Keep up the great work – our nation needs more honest media journalists!
The Washington football team is and will always be the Washington Redskins, save to the Belt-way bed wetters, their low-testosterone brethren accross the fruited plain. and the cowardly owners who bend the knee to this comtemptible crowd. Every survey of real Indians shows a large majority don’t mind Indian names for teams or places. Most consider them the honor they were inteded to before the woke killjoys and party poopers came along. I’m well struck in years now. But my health is good. So I hope and trust I’ll live long enough to see Redskins restored in Washington, Indians restored in Cleveland, and Comanders and Guadians carted to he woke junkyard where they belong. Come home Chief Wahoo. All is forgiven.
HTTR –in my heart for over 60 years and will be until I die!
Why would anyone vote for Harris/Walz after the last disastrous 4 years of failures? They’ve p-ssed away billions of OUR $$ on illegals and supporting foreign interests while turning a blind eye to hurricane-ravaged AMERICAN citizens. You may not like Trump but he tells it like it is, instead of Kamala’s regurgitated word salads. If I’m in a fight, I want someone I can count on. I don’t have to invite him to my birthday party.
Being a lifetime Redskins fan I refuse to call the team the Commanders.
About 20 years ago Judy and I traveled to Phoenix to see the Skins play Arizona. I wore my #9 Sonny Jurgensen jersey to the game and was surprised at the number of Skin fans around me on the visitor’s side. At least 50% of the Redsklns fans were Native American Indians who traveled from all over the area to attend the game and cheer for the Skin’s.
HTTR
Have been a Skins fan for well over 60 years. Went to Pasadena to see the win in Super Bowl 17 against the Dolphins. Russ Grimm was my next door neighbor for a few of his rookie years. My blood is burgundy and gold. Will never accept the name Commanders and won’t buy any new paraphenalia with that name on it HTTR.
Good on ya, Barbara – it’s folks like you that will help overturn the Marxist DEI infection in our country. Stand your ground – we’re going to take our country back this November. Hail to the Redskins and Vote for Trump !
Where’s Billy Kilmer and Riggo when we need ‘em ? Seriously, why do we let the DEI Marxist crowd dictate our lives ? Vote for Trump and stop the insanity.
Dave, although stuck in VA for now, I read your blog weekly. So glad you went “worldly” with this blog rather than local. Very refreshing and much appreciated–one that I can forward to many like-minded friends.