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2218614, If You Owned the Skins, How Would You Handle the Name Change????? Posted by WarriorPoet415, Wed Aug-14-13 12:06 PM
Just a light convo topic I was thinking of. (well maybe not so light)
Realistically how would you handle it?
I'm an unabashed life-long Redskins fan. It would hurt to see the name change, just cause I'm so used to it, but I think ultimately it would be the right thing to do. In 10-20-50 years, who would care? A lot of NFL teams were called something else at one point in history.
I think a lot of Snyder's resistance to the name change has to do with $$$$. It's a team worth 1.6 billion that's well marketed and established. You could take a hit by changing the name, but new merchandise sales would probably make that hit a bit softer.
All that being said, if I owned the team today, honestly, I wouldn't change the name right away. I'd phase out some stuff (imagery) over the next 5 years. As I understand it, you'd have to go to the NFL for approval for some stuff anyways, so an overnight change is impossible anyways.
5 years gives long-time fans a chance to say goodbye, maybe gives the franchise a chance to win another super bowl under the old name, and a lot of time to consider a really suitable name as a replacement.(not really a fan of the oft-touted Warriors) I'd keep the color scheme though.
Taking that long would probably piss some people off, but doing something like changing the name (or not changing it) of this particular franchise is gonna piss a lot of people off anyways, so it's whatever....
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