Skip Bayless sports analyst made a U-turn on Washington’s NFL name after Donald Trump’s request.
Known as commanders since 2022, the Washington football team abandoned the controversial nickname of “ Redskins ” five years ago in the middle of the died of George Floyd in the hands of the Minneapolis police.
However, the president last week called for the franchise to return to his old division name in a disconcerting social diatribe.
And without bay, despite previously The story of the name “Redskins” racist, “suggested that he would embrace Trump’s name on a condition.
“ If someone can demonstrate in a conclusive manner that a majority of tribal leaders across America are all for the return of Redskins and Indians as team nicknames, then I would be everything for that, ” said Bayless in a video shared with its X platform.
“We went through this several years ago in my first days of taking. Some tribal leaders were expressed pro and some spoke stupid. I don’t know. But if you have shown me that a consensus was now pro, you know, I just hope that it will arouse at least a new wave of debates.
Donald Trump demanded that the Washington NFL team is coming back to its nickname “Redskins”
Skip Bayless, who previously marked the racist term, appeared open to change
“I hope that tribal leaders around the world will get up and express themselves from this from now on. Whatever their consensual opinion, if there is a consensus, and perhaps there is none, but I will be behind the majority. Maybe I’m just another naively arrogant white person, but I have to admit that I miss Washington’s NFL team.
Bayless added earlier in his podcast that the “nickname of commanders” sounds more stupid than ever “, especially after the quarter-Arrière Jayden Daniels led Washington to the NFC championship match.
The argument of the former Fox Sports host was a major change in the phase of his past opinions on the old nickname. However, he always argued that he believed that the names of the “Redskins” aroused controversy.
“For me, Redskins remains a racist nickname,” said Bayless in the 12 -minute clip. “What if an NFL team had been nicknamed” Blackskins “?”
Bayless’s remarks intervene after Trump said there was a “complaint” for the nickname “Redskins” to make a return.
“The Washington”, which is “should immediately change its name in the Washington Redskins football team,” Trump wrote on social networks. “There is a big complaint for that.
Although Trump was slightly offset on the team name (they were the “Washington Redskins”, then “the Washington football team”, but never the Washington Redskins football team), it is right on the tumult on changes.
The president went to social networks last week to affirm that there was a “complaint” for the change
A Washington Redskins fan watched before the match against Miami dolphins in 2019
Fans and even certain Amerindian groups have expressed support from the new team of the team to return to the “Redskins”. Several public opinion polls on self-identified Amerindians have found that most were not offended by the term, while criticisms underlined the academic research of the University of Michigan and the UC Berkeley which revealed that the opposite was true.
Trump seemed to refer to the public survey in favor of a name change last weekend.
“Our great Indians, in massive numbers, want it to happen,” he said. “Their inheritance and their prestige are systematically removed from them. Times are different now that they were three or four years ago. We are a country of passion and common sense. Owners, do it !!!
He also demanded the same thing of Cleveland Guardians of MLB, born: “Indians”.
“Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a light past,” he wrote.
We don’t know where Trump gets “six original baseball teams”. The NHL is famous six original teams and the National MLB League was once limited to half a dozen clubs. However, the Guardians franchise is in the American League, where it is known as Broncos, Saps and Indians before adopting its current nickname in 2022.
Of course, the “Indians” are not entirely the same as the “Redskins” – a traditionally pejorative term hated by some Amerindians and tolerated by others.
Trump then underlined his requests on social networks, writing in a second article: “My declaration on the Redskins of Washington completely exploded, but only in a very positive way.
Leah Muskin-Pierre de Washington DC works on signs as part of a protest from the Amerindians against the name of the Redskins team in 2017. The team would change their name three years later
“ I can put a restriction there that if they do not change the name in the original “Washington Redskins”, and get rid of the ridiculous nickname, “Washington commanders”, I will not agree to build a stadium in Washington.
“The team would be much more precious and the agreement would be more exciting for everyone. Cleveland should do the same with the Cleveland Indians. The owner of the Cleveland baseball team Matt Dolan, who is very political, has lost three consecutive elections due to this ridiculous name change.
“What he does not understand is that if he has changed the name of the Cleveland Indians, he could actually win an election. The Indians are treated very unfairly. Make the Indians great again (Miga)!
The NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and the owner of commanders Joshua Harris met Trump at the Oval Office in May to announce plans to bring the League project to the National Mall in 2027.
Washington was selected as a recovery host just days after the mayor of DC Muriel Bowser announced a plan to bring the team back to the city with a new field on the site of the old RFK stadium, where the team then known as Redskins played until 1996.
Currently, the RFK stadium stands on the site on the banks of the Anacostia river in the eastern part of the city.
The building was under prolonged demolition which has been delayed several times. The building was closed in September 2019, but the structural demolition only started this year.
It was not only the name that led to the division among the Amerindians. A year ago, the family of the man represented in the old Redskins logo urged the team to bring their image back to the helmet after years of controversy on the image.
Washington DC and NFL commanders are expected to announce an agreement on Monday to bring the team back in the city limits after a race of almost three decades in Landover
Football and a jersey are seated at the top of the office resolved at the office of President Donald Trump when he announces a plan to bring the NFL draft to the National Mall in the spring of 2027
“The fans want him to come back and we want him to come back,” a great nephew of the deceased in the Chief of the Blackfeet Nation John, John, the Fox News calf after meeting Senator Steve Daines (Republican, Montana) told Fox News.
Thomas’ pleadings occurred four years after the team started its brand change, first becoming the Washington football team on a temporary basis before adopting “commanders” and dropping the white veal emblem with feathered feathered feathers.
“Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history,” Thomas told Fox alongside her mother, Delphine White Veau, a niece of the deceased Chief of Blackfeet. “Two cannons were also the face on the nickel of the Indian head. I am proud of him. Black feet are proud of him.
The club began as the Boston brave in 1932 before changing its name in `Redskins ” A year later and moving to the American capital in 1937. But it was not until 1971 that the leader of Black-Feet Blackie Wetzel created a portrait of John Two Guns White Chalf who ultimately became the logo of the team.
