(08-05-2020, 09:37 AM)NCJag Wrote: DC could be on to something. Change EVERY team name to the CITY Football team...as to not offend anyone. But then that might offend people who never could make it onto a team...??‍♂️

I actually thought about this very thing becoming a thing in the not too distant future. In Ozone I believe someone posed the question, "What happens when someone is offended by the names of the Raiders or Vikings or the Browns" (obviously this person was either being silly or didn't know the Browns were named for Paul Brown).
But it stands to reason actually... if cancel culture and this weird turn that America has taken in being offended by everything and anything (or not actually being offended but wanting to control thought and speech a la 1984) who is to say that these team names won't be offensive one day? What if PETA comes for our Jaguars? Or a certain section of America hates Patriots (I mean we all hate the team, but the name).

I would not be surprised if in 15-20 years the NFL is represented by Washington Football Team. Jacksonville Football Team. Los Angeles Football Team A and Football Team B.

Of course I imagine I will have stopped watching by then. Football in 20 years will most likely no longer look or feel like the football I grew up watching or even the product we see today.

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