What do you think? Name it after his son Bug? "The Washington Bugs". Or maybe a Cal angle - "The Washington Grizzlies" (since Bears is taken). Hope its not the Senators.
there were Native Americans fighting on Both sides during the French and Indian War and during the American Revolution. The Merciless ones were the enemy. The friendlies were honorable.Bobodeluxe said:
Someone in the comments of the Washington Post story suggested that the team take inspiration directly from the Declaration of Independence, "The Merciless Indian Savages.
Original intent, and all.
oskidunker said:
Washington Red Birds
Except his son's name is Christopher, daughter Courtney. Bug Rivera was a nephew...MilleniaBear said:
What do you think? Name it after his son Bug? "The Washington Bugs". Or maybe a Cal angle - "The Washington Grizzlies" (since Bears is taken). Hope its not the Senators.
MSaviolives said:
I like the Red Tails.
A family friend flew 50 missions in B-17s out of Italy in WW2, including some pretty hairy missions over Germany and the Ploesti oil fields, among others, in 1944.
He told a story about how the worst formation position was to be at one of the corners in the back row, because you were exposed to fighter attack without the other planes being able to help provide cover fire--and the German fighter pilots knew this and would always attack those corner planes. When his plane drew that corner assignment for a mission one day, he had a sinking feeling, and sure enough on their way back from the mission a couple of Messerschmidts appeared and started in on him....he thought he was a goner when some red tailed American fighters swooped in to the rescue and drove off the Messerschmidts.
He said his crew lost their prejudice that day.
Here's our 98 year old airman, when I took him to the airshow in Concord last year and got him inside a B-17 to sit at his radioman's seat one last time. Maybe there to experience it with me only thanks to the brave Tuskegee Airmen.
MugsVanSant said:
The Redskins were the only NFL team I had any respect for because they had the courage to stand against government and the forces of political correctness telling them what to cal their team. What you call your business is a form of First Amendment activity. It is a sad day for free speech when people are not allowed to call their businesses what they want.
concernedparent said:MugsVanSant said:
The Redskins were the only NFL team I had any respect for because they had the courage to stand against government and the forces of political correctness telling them what to cal their team. What you call your business is a form of First Amendment activity. It is a sad day for free speech when people are not allowed to call their businesses what they want.
Nobody is forcing them to change their name.
And fighting for a country that treated them as inferior second class citizens. Thinking of the black soldiers, airmen and sailors who returned from the war to be welcomed back with...Jim Crow--relegated to separate water fountains, restaurants, hotels, schools and the back of the bus.GivemTheAxe said:MSaviolives said:
I like the Red Tails.
A family friend flew 50 missions in B-17s out of Italy in WW2, including some pretty hairy missions over Germany and the Ploesti oil fields, among others, in 1944.
He told a story about how the worst formation position was to be at one of the corners in the back row, because you were exposed to fighter attack without the other planes being able to help provide cover fire--and the German fighter pilots knew this and would always attack those corner planes. When his plane drew that corner assignment for a mission one day, he had a sinking feeling, and sure enough on their way back from the mission a couple of Messerschmidts appeared and started in on him....he thought he was a goner when some red tailed American fighters swooped in to the rescue and drove off the Messerschmidts.
He said his crew lost their prejudice that day.
Here's our 98 year old airman, when I took him to the airshow in Concord last year and got him inside a B-17 to sit at his radioman's seat one last time. Maybe there to experience it with me only thanks to the brave Tuskegee Airmen.
Thanks for posting. It is one more incident where Blacks (African Americans) have proven their courage and patriotism in fighting and dying to protect their country and their fellow Americans (of every color)
There are innumerable examples of them doing so in every major war in US history from the American Revolutionary War to the Civil War to WWI to WWII to Korea to Vietnam to the Gulf War.
Maybe there should be more statues of these American heroes to remind people what true patriotic American heroes look like.
MugsVanSant said:
The Redskins were the only NFL team I had any respect for because they had the courage to stand against government and the forces of political correctness telling them what to cal their team. What you call your business is a form of First Amendment activity. It is a sad day for free speech when people are not allowed to call their businesses what they want.
MugsVanSant said:
Kaepernick was not acting on his own time. He was acting on the boss' and ticket holder's time. If he was acting on his own time he would be protected not only by the First Amendment but also by sections 1101 through 1106 of the Labor Code assuming that he was legally an employee. These sections prohibit employers from taking any kind of adverse action against an employee for any lawful political activity on his own time. That's why Top Dog should have been sued when it fired its employee for his participation in that rally in North Carolina.
By the way, exactly what did the president threaten the 49ers with if Kaepernick wasn't fired? This old man has forgotten.