Hail To A Name change..... Sports/NFL

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And you love addressing points no one raised. If you’re going to respond to a specific post, your reply should be somehow related to what you’re quoting. This wasn’t.

Boru

Duide [sic], this is a message board, not the CERN collider.

Thank you, I was confused about that point.

I have been a lifetime Washington fan. I know the history of the owner. I was talking about him, not you.

I know you weren't talking about me, but you were talking to me.  And your response had nothing to do with what I said.

How is the owner not attached to this subject? He's been pressured for years long before now, decades in fact, to change the name. The fact it took other rich corporations to get him to do this is relevant. 

It's relevant to the topic, but not relevant to my comment. 

He wouldn't have done it if those in his own class with power had not said anything.

Agreed, but that's got nothing to do with what I said.

And I really am not giving Fedex [sic] or Nike that much credit either. If the Redskins had the same record as the Patriots and were winning Super Bowls year after year like the Pats have, not sure Fedex [sic] or Nike would be doing this now. But the Redskins suck and I think that played more into why Fedex [sic] and Nike did what they did in putting pressure on the owner.

Good to know.  I don't care, but good to know.

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I think we should change the name to the "Washington Atheists" and our mascot would be a barbecued kitten.

THAT would have been an appropriate response to my comment.  You should have led with that.

Boru

[Brian37]

I know how my late mother would have responded to this news if alive today. 

She was always a traditionalist and a script thinker. My late mother was a HUGE Redskin fan, like me. But I know her, if she was still alive today, she would be pissed at the name change.

She wouldn't disown me for agreeing a name change was in order, but it would become one of those things we'd have to avoid talking about to keep the peace.  

An aside, without googling can you tell me the Redskins original name and what city it originally started out as, and it's original name?

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Another trivia question, this Redskin linebacker played for the team from 1965 to 1978, And just like his last name namesake, despite one letter, had a stuffed doll made with his image in Redskin uniform for a major fast food chain, who gave out these stuffed toys as a promotion. both the team and fast food chain had similar color motifs.

I can give you 55 reasons. Name me the player.

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I was just researching the 55 Redskins doll I had as a kid. But couldn't find shit on it. Looking at it now, it was common for unlicensed people to sell tokens and nick nacks without the team's permission. It also cold be that my mom picked that up somewhere from a place that mimicked the team and used the number without agreement of the team.

I might have had a bootlegged doll. My memory is not faulty in that I did have a stuffed #55 Redskins doll. But maybe looking back at it now, it wasn't a team authorized product.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I know how my late mother would have responded to this news if alive today. 

She was always a traditionalist and a script thinker. My late mother was a HUGE Redskin fan, like me. But I know her, if she was still alive today, she would be pissed at the name change.

She wouldn't disown me for agreeing a name change was in order, but it would become one of those things we'd have to avoid talking about to keep the peace.  

An aside, without googling can you tell me the Redskins original name and what city it originally started out as, and it's original name?

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Another trivia question, this Redskin linebacker played for the team from 1965 to 1978, And just like his last name namesake, despite one letter, had a stuffed doll made with his image in Redskin uniform for a major fast food chain, who gave out these stuffed toys as a promotion. both the team and fast food chain had similar color motifs.

I can give you 55 reasons. Name me the player.

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I was just researching the 55 Redskins doll I had as a kid. But couldn't find shit on it.  Looking at it now, it was common for unlicensed people to sell tokens and nick nacks without the team's permission. It also cold be that my mom picked that up somewhere from a place that mimicked the team and used the number without agreement of the team.

I might have had a bootlegged doll. My memory is not faulty in that I did have a stuffed #55 Redskins doll. But maybe looking back at it now, it wasn't a team authorized product.

Chris Hanburger, Jr.

Boru

[Brian37]

I know how my late mother would have responded to this news if alive today. 

She was always a traditionalist and a script thinker. My late mother was a HUGE Redskin fan, like me. But I know her, if she was still alive today, she would be pissed at the name change.

She wouldn't disown me for agreeing a name change was in order, but it would become one of those things we'd have to avoid talking about to keep the peace.  

An aside, without googling can you tell me the Redskins original name and what city it originally started out as, and it's original name?

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Another trivia question, this Redskin linebacker played for the team from 1965 to 1978, And just like his last name namesake, despite one letter, had a stuffed doll made with his image in Redskin uniform for a major fast food chain, who gave out these stuffed toys as a promotion. both the team and fast food chain had similar color motifs.

I can give you 55 reasons. Name me the player.

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I was just researching the 55 Redskins doll I had as a kid. But couldn't find shit on it.  Looking at it now, it was common for unlicensed people to sell tokens and nick nacks without the team's permission. It also cold be that my mom picked that up somewhere from a place that mimicked the team and used the number without agreement of the team.

I might have had a bootlegged doll. My memory is not faulty in that I did have a stuffed #55 Redskins doll. But maybe looking back at it now, it wasn't a team authorized product.

Chris Hanburger, Jr.

Boru

^^^^ BINGO, but you had to look that up, admit it. 

An aside, I was a very superstitious and fearful kid growing up. At night I feared the dark and had tons of stuffed toys i would surround my body with in order to fall asleep. His doll was one of them on top of the giant Winnie The Pooh..... <---- got the "h" this time.

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You got the Hanburger part right. But what was the original name of the team and what city did they originally start in prior to moving to DC?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Chris Hanburger, Jr.

Boru

^^^^ BINGO, but you had to look that up, admit it. 

An aside, I was a very superstitious and fearful kid growing up. At night I feared the dark and had tons of stuffed toys i would surround my body with in order to fall asleep. His doll was one of them on top of the giant Winnie The Pooh..... <---- got the "h" this time.

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You got the Hanburger part right. But what was the original name of the team and what city did they originally start in prior to moving to DC?

Of course I looked it up. I look up a lot of the questions you ask - not because I’m particularly interested in getting them right, but because I keep trying to get you to understand how bad you are at crafting trivia questions. This is the Information Age, boyo. Learn to construct a question that can’t be answered with a simple Google search.

The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves (I looked that one up as well).

Boru

[Brian37]

^^^^ BINGO, but you had to look that up, admit it. 

An aside, I was a very superstitious and fearful kid growing up. At night I feared the dark and had tons of stuffed toys i would surround my body with in order to fall asleep. His doll was one of them on top of the giant Winnie The Pooh..... <---- got the "h" this time.

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You got the Hanburger part right. But what was the original name of the team and what city did they originally start in prior to moving to DC?

Of course I looked it up. I look up a lot of the questions you ask - not because I’m particularly interested in getting them right, but because I keep trying to get you to understand how bad you are at crafting trivia questions. 

The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves (I looked that one up as well).

Boru

Thank you master, I guess I am just a "grasshopper".

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Of course I looked it up. I look up a lot of the questions you ask - not because I’m particularly interested in getting them right, but because I keep trying to get you to understand how bad you are at crafting trivia questions. 

The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves (I looked that one up as well).

Boru

Thank you master, I guess I am just a "grasshopper".

You’re just lazy.

Boru

[Brian37]

Don't give me any crap that I don't know how to craft trivia questions. You didn't know it, because you don't know what I know. I am sure you know lots I don't know.

Everyone in the world has different information someone else may not have.

Another example, name me the college Jerry Falwell dropped out of prior to founding Liberty University. And give me it's original name too, not the one that exists today.

Unless you know off the top of your head, you will have to look it up.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Don't give me any crap that I don't know how to craft trivia questions. You didn't know it, because you don't know what I know. I am sure you know lots I don't know.

Everyone in the world has different information someone else may not have.

Another example, name me the college Jerry Falwell dropped out of prior to founding Liberty University. And give me it's original name too, not the one that exists today.

Unless you know off the top of your head, you will have to look it up.

I don’t know this off the top of my head. Looking it up didn’t help, since I was unable to find any information about Falwell dropping out of college. Is this a trick question?

Boru

[Brian37]

Don't give me any crap that I don't know how to craft trivia questions. You didn't know it, because you don't know what I know. I am sure you know lots I don't know.

Everyone in the world has different information someone else may not have.

Another example, name me the college Jerry Falwell dropped out of prior to founding Liberty University. And give me it's original name too, not the one that exists today.

Unless you know off the top of your head, you will have to look it up.

I don’t know this off the top of my head. Looking it up didn’t help, since I was unable to find any information about Falwell dropping out of college. Is this a trick question?

Boru

No, since you say you look things up, it is out there. All you would have to do is look up Jerry Falwell's history.

He dropped out of a college that had two different names prior to starting his own in the same city.

These two professors wrote a book about his bigotry, whom taught, not at the same time, but after he dropped out of the college they taught at

.https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Falwell-Wil...B0012GEAHU