It’s time. As has already been suggested by others, Daniel Snyder should rename the Washington DC’s NFL team after the Tuskegee Airmen.
Since 1999, Owner Daniel Snyder has infuriated many of Washington DC’s greatest football fans, for two reasons:
- He is an absolutely INEPT chief executive and has run a once proud franchise into the ground
- He has steadfastly refused to ditch the racist team name: “Red****s”
As a native-born fan who remembers the glory days of George Allen and Joe Gibbs, I have little hope that #1 will be addressed any time soon. However, it looks as if the tides of change are finally coming to #2. The team has announced a “thorough review” of the name.
Naming the team the Redtails will be a high profile, enduring tribute to those brave souls of the Tuskegee airmen. It will also be an important historical reminder to ALL Americans that Black aviators helped defeat Hitler. Finally, it will be a powerful example of how the BLACK LIVES MATTER Movement is having a real impact on our perspectives.
Old-time fans like me look back fondly to stomping so hard in old RFK Stadium that the entire building shook.
Sadly (in retrospect) we also enjoyed lustily singing the famous, but overtly racist fight song: “Hail to the Red***ns”. With a change to Red Tail, the franchise doesn’t even have change the colors. And fans can keep singing a different, but still VERY familiar tune after every score. Here it is:
LYRICS TO THE New WASHINGTON RED TAILS VICTORY SONG
Hail to the Redskins! Red Tails!
Hail Victory!
Braves Planes on their Warpath Glidepath
Fight for old D.C.
Run or Pass or Score
We need a lot more
Beat 'em Swamp 'em Touchdown
Let the Points Soar
Fight Fly On, Fight On 'til you have won
Sons of Washington
Hail to the Redskins! Red Tails!
Hail Victory!
Braves Planes on their Warpath Glidepath
Fight for old D.C.
Scalp 'em Swarm ‘em Swamp 'em
We will take 'em Big Score
Read 'em Weep 'em Touchdown
We want heaps more!
Fight Fly On, Fight On 'til you have won
Sons of Washington
Hail to the Redskins! Red Tails!
Hail Victory!
Braves Planes on their Warpath Glidepath
Fight for old D.C.
I think I could sing that song after a Red Tails touchdown pretty easily. Now all we need is a team that can actually win!
Daniel Snyder, please do something right that will perhaps make fans remember you positively for a change.