What's in a Name?

The football team in Washington DC is seeking new names for the team that donned the Burgundy and Gold. They once dominated the gridiron, but as of late have remained a constant disappointment to fans, both for their performance on the field and the inflexibility of the owner to recognize how the name of the team gave offense.

With the prospect of the team changing its moniker in 2020, it's important to support such decisions by providing helpful possibilities for the new identity of the team. Team names need to reflect the history, the values and the culture of the city/region they represent. As such, the new name should be chosen with great delicacy.

Here are a few options:

The Federalists --it would tie in with the history. Of course that would mean every team that opposed them would be the anti-federalists. No word on whether Lin Manuel Miranda would consider composing a new theme song for the team. His guy helped wrote sixty-one of the essays.

The Electorate --I can't see it happening but if I were a sports writer, I'd be on my knees begging for this one if only to be able to say when the defensive line held, it was a voting block.

The Washington Red Tape --there are so many ways to go with this, it's almost too easy but on the upside, it doesn't require a color scheme change.

Everyone's proposing the Fillibusters but do those ever work? Would the team become famous for running out the clock without ever executing a play?

I've also seen the Washington's Finest --but it reminds me of those chocolate bars we had to sell every year as a fund raiser for school.

The Washington Club has a chummy sound to it, and connects with all the swampy aspects of the federal government and how things happen. One could easily see a link up between football and golf and a heavy dose of alcohol sales connected with such a name, not to mention sandwiches.

However, it doesn't quite have the sizzle that sells t-shirts and jerseys and gets people pumped on a Sunday to head out to the game or the bars to cheer the team on that makes for a good francise name.

The Washington Politics --with a picture of a tick on the side of the helmets to remind us all of the blood sucking parasites that operate in the parties and across the three branches.  

I think it would work. I think it would stick. 

I'd buy that shirt.