Tony Dungy and Phil Simms will not use the derogatory name of the Washington NFL team this
fall when they are announcing..
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/phil-simms-considers-redskins-tv-25026312
Two influential NFL voices — including CBS lead analyst Phil Simms, who will handle Washington's Week 4 game — said Monday they likely won't use the term "Redskins" when discussing the franchise.
"My very first thought is it will be Washington the whole game," Simms told The Associated Press on Monday.
Simms will work the Thursday night package the network acquired this season and will have Giants-Redskins on Sept. 25. He isn't taking sides in the debate over whether Washington's nickname is offensive or racist. But he says he is sensitive to the complaints about the name, and his instincts now are to not use Redskins in his announcing.
"I never really thought about it, and then it came up and it made me think about it," Simms added. "There are a lot of things that can come up in a broadcast, and I am sensitive to this."
NBC's Tony Dungy, one of the most prominent voices in the league as a Super Bowl-winning coach and now as a studio commentator, plans to take the same route as Simms.
"I will personally try not to use Redskins and refer to them as Washington," Dungy said in an email. "Personal opinion for me, not the network."
CBS is allowing its announcers to decide on their own whether to call the team the Redskins. So is Fox, which handles the NFC and will televise most of Washington's games.
"As long as their nickname is the Redskins, I?ll continue to call them the Redskins," said Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, the lead analyst for Fox.
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