For decades, the name stood for honor, integrity and pride and nobody ever complained.
But now the politically correct crowd want to force the Redskins to change their name.
I think that Mike Ditka summarized things very well when he said this during a recent interview…
“What’s all the stink over the Redskin name? It’s so much [expletive] it’s incredible. We’re going to let the liberals of the world run this world. It was said out of reverence, out of pride to the American Indian. Even though it was called a Redskin, what are you going to call them, a Brownskin? This is so stupid it’s appalling, and I hope that owner keeps fighting for it and never changes it, because the Redskins are part of an American football history, and it should never be anything but the Washington Redskins. That’s the way it is.”
And of course during the preseason we were subjected to the whole Michael Sam saga.
If he was going to make it in the NFL, he should have made it on his own merits as a football player.
But when he was cut by the Rams, the league office actually called around to teams to try to find someone that would sign Sam to their practice squad…
According to NBC’s Peter King and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, NFL officials called teams around the league to gauge interest in signing Michael Sam to their practice squad.
Yesterday, the Dallas Cowboys signed Sam, who is trying to become the first openly gay player in NFL history.
King reported this during the pre-game show on NBC prior to the Seahawks/Packers season opener Thursday night.
“The Rams waived Michael Sam, the first openly gay player trying to make an NFL roster, he was unemployed for two days,” King said. “During that time a league official contacted multiple teams asking if they had evaluated Sam as a probable practice squad player.”
“Now Sam and the NFL avoided a nightmare situation when he signed with the practice squad of the Dallas Cowboys.”
Why not just treat him like any other player?
Well, that just wouldn’t be politically correct enough for the NFL.