{"id":47613,"date":"2021-01-11T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47613"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:23:21","slug":"who-changes-their-name-first-the-redskins-or-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47613","title":{"rendered":"Who changes their name first: the Redskins or Patriots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Serious question.\u00a0 Based on how often the phrase \u201cpatriots\u201d has been thrown around unironically, I can\u2019t help but wonder if people who work for the New England Patriots football franchise wince or cringe every time they hear it.\u00a0 Obviously, there\u2019s zero (I hope) correlation between a professional football team\u2019s identity, and a legion of white supremacist fascists, but the word is the same and when enough people hear it enough with a negative connotation, the association tends to stick, even when used in completely unrelated context.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a very short amount of time, the phrase patriots has mutated into this very ugly and unappealing definition, and I really do wonder if this keeps up, there will be enough of an uproar and backlash to the New England Patriots to where they will actually begin considering changing their entire franchise\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, when it comes to the original question, it stands to believe that the Redskins are the lock to win this \u201crace,\u201d seeing as how the Redskins name has been put on the shelf already, but I\u2019m not going to give them any sort of victory until they actually pick a new name and stop parading around as the interim \u201cFootball Team\u201d they\u2019ve used throughout 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

But lest we all forget, this much progress has taken almost literally my entire lifetime, so if there was any franchise that could get overtaken by lightning in a bottle, it\u2019s definitely the Washington Washingtons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in a very fast-moving world now where there\u2019s little patience and even less regard for repercussions and backlash, and if the association of the word patriots continues to spiral and become more solely linked to racism, white supremacy and people who would dare attempt to disrupt and overthrow governments, the sooner the New England Patriots might want to consider renaming themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Think I\u2019m going to have to rule this race, a jump ball.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serious question.\u00a0 Based on how often the phrase \u201cpatriots\u201d has been thrown around unironically, I can\u2019t help but wonder if people who work for the New England Patriots football franchise wince or cringe every time they hear it.\u00a0 Obviously, there\u2019s zero (I hope) correlation between a professional football team\u2019s identity, and a legion of white … Continue reading Who changes their name first: the Redskins or Patriots?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,130,131,106,165,89,124,190],"class_list":["post-47613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-football","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-trolls","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47615,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613\/revisions\/47615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}