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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jul 3, 2020, 08:07 PM Jul 2020

Daniel Snyder no longer has a choice, and he knows it. Battle over name has reached its endgame.

There is no “thorough review” necessary. The process that the Washington NFL franchise announced Friday isn’t to determine whether to change the offensive name that has been attached to the team for more than eight decades. The process is to determine how to rebrand: the timing, the level of transparency, the elimination of unintended consequences and, of course, the intricacies of the proper way to select and market a new name.

The old name is dead. Daniel Snyder wouldn’t backtrack from “NEVER — you can use caps” to a team statement vowing to consider “the best interest of all in mind” without resignation that his obdurate protection of tradition must end. What has changed in the seven years since Snyder drew that hard line? Well, the world. And most of that change has occurred in a four-month sliver of this 2020 gloom because of an escalating pandemic combined with heightened tension and awareness of racism.

During this stunning wave, in which inappropriate symbols and monuments have come down, the ultimate target is the pedestal of denial. Some people hide behind physical things and unchallenged traditions to protect their ignorance and maintain their comfortably blind lives. On this issue, Snyder can’t afford to be in denial any longer. He’s not just fighting Native American activists and other clusters of people who despise that an NFL team has such association with a dictionary-defined slur. To keep the name now, Snyder must contend with corporate sponsors who want it changed and lawmakers at various levels who could make it difficult for his franchise to do business.

Snyder, whom Forbes estimates to have a net worth of $2.6 billion, often can refuse to listen to anyone about anything. Wealth is a different kind of freedom. But as the managing partner of a franchise valued at more than $3 billion, he still answers to the almighty dollar, and this cash-cow business he took over in 1999 won’t be impenetrably lucrative if he doesn’t embrace the call to change.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/daniel-snyder-no-longer-has-a-choice-and-he-knows-it-battle-over-name-has-reached-its-endgame/ar-BB16j7VF?li=BBnb7Kz

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Daniel Snyder no longer has a choice, and he knows it. Battle over name has reached its endgame. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
I vote for Redtails GreenPartyVoter Jul 2020 #1
Then the nickname would be The Tails. Sneederbunk Jul 2020 #3
NFL owners need to stand up and at least ostracize snyder empedocles Jul 2020 #2
The Mighty Fighting Lincolns. (n/t) Iggo Jul 2020 #4
Its time for the name to go. Capt. America Jul 2020 #5
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