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NFL 2020 Season: We're gonna bite a kneecap off

You underestimate the Washington fans. They aren’t stupid. They (I should say we, including me) KNOW our team sucks. However, we remember the greatness that was this team in the 80’s and early 90’s, above all others. We remember life before Dan Snyder, and it is through the concept of “sunk cost fallacy” alone that we stubbornly endure. We are not swayed by a name change or bad beer. We know none of those silly-ass things will make things better or worse for our team. The only thing we all collectively dream for is Snyder’s realization that we will never win so long as he is in charge; that he himself has lost so much money that he will eventually say “fuck it” and walk. On that day, we will rejoice. He does have a breaking point that is inexorably tied to his bottom line. The name change forced by his sponsors and landlords proved this. All we need to do is find his threshold of epic failure for him to completely pop smoke. Until then, we wait in eternal bitterness for Dark Heart’s tyranny to end.
 
What should the new team name be? Some guy already trademarked all the obvious ones.

Maybe Washington SuperPacs. The most vicious thing native to Washington.

The guy who trademarked them is probably going to give them whatever name they want, he's just trying to get a bit fo buck in the exchange.
 
137th Gebirg said:
Correct - in fact, he also publicly stated that he offered to give the NFL/former-Skins an opportunity to freely take whatever name they chose that he owned within a ten day window (don't know when the clock started or ended). This changes a narrative a bit, and could wind up making Snyder and Gooddell look like the five-star toolbags they both really are for sitting on that offer. I suspect that their massive egos bristled at the whole thing and decided instead to take legal action against him because they can. This would all be quite wildly amusing and entertaining if it weren't so stupid sad...
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Sure, he says that now, it all makes him look very good. :p I'm not a fan of trademark squatters, even if it is against the big boys. If this backfires and they choose something totally different then he has a useless trademark he never intended to use and we miss out on a pretty cool team name.
 
JirinPanthosa said:
What should the new team name be? Some guy already trademarked all the obvious ones.

Maybe Washington SuperPacs. The most vicious thing native to Washington.

The guy who trademarked them is probably going to give them whatever name they want, he's just trying to get a bit fo buck in the exchange.
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D.C. Donkeys.
 
When all their front-line players start going into the hospital mid-season because they're breathing and spitting on each other in the field, there's only so much revenue generation they're going to get when all the teams are running 4th-stringer backups. It'll look like 12 monkeys trying to fuck a football.
 
137th Gebirg said:
When all their front-line players start going into the hospital mid-season because they're breathing and spitting on each other in the field, there's only so much revenue generation they're going to get when all the teams are running 4th-stringer backups. It'll look like 12 monkeys trying to fuck a football.
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Never stopped the NFL before. See: replacement games.

If they’re playing they are getting all of their TV money.
 
BillJ said:
So we’re still playing football this year. Owners and the league care more about cash than player safety.
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Plus, look man, nobody had died....yet. If they do, the families will be filing lawsuit after lawsuit.


137th Gebirg said:
It'll look like 12 monkeys trying to fuck a football.
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I would so pay to see that. Way funnier than the Puppy Bowl and maybe a little less family oriented.


BillJ said:
Never stopped the NFL before. See: replacement games.

If they’re playing they are getting all of their TV money.
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True. The contracts are for "games", not "games with the A-team". Unless they changed something in those contracts after 1987 that lets the networks off the hook.
 
Well, I suppose that watching 2 dozen befuddled and inexperienced players running aimlessly around the field would be an order of magnitude more entertaining than watching scab zebras trying to penalize either team every other play (all of which has happened in recent memory), so sure... :lol:
 
The only way I see them canceling the season is if a couple of high profile players drop dead and they can trace it back to NFL activity.
 
BillJ said:
So we’re still playing football this year. Owners and the league care more about cash than player safety.
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Since when has ownership, in any industry, given a flying fuck about labor?

Edit: I mean, for fuck's sake, Kroger (which owns a bunch of different grocery chains, like Pick 'n Save and Copps) made a massive hullabaloo about having special pricing on Coke products for its employees. If that isn't tone-deaf...
 
Especially since said-Coke products are now consistently out-of-stock at many Kroger-based stores (I go to one regularly in my area), due to ingredients shortages that Coca-Cola said would never happen back in February! I'm on some serious Coke-Zero withdraw right now.
 
137th Gebirg said:
Especially since said-Coke products are now consistently out-of-stock at many Kroger-based stores (I go to one regularly in my area), due to ingredients shortages that Coca-Cola said would never happen back in February! I'm on some serious Coke-Zero withdraw right now.
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That's funny. The Coke and Pepsi guys I've talked to are claiming there's an aluminum shortage. I'm in Pibb withdrawal.
 
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