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Yahoo
27 minutes ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Root for the team but love the laundry
Full disclosure: My wife is a diehard, lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys. No one's perfect. Navigating life means learning to accept one's obvious flaws and, truth be told, that's a pretty big one. Good thing she's got an amazing personality. It almost makes up for all that other stuff. If you grew up in Santa Fe in the way-back times of the '70s, '80s and early '90s, it usually meant you were a fan of one of the following: Cowboys (gross), Broncos (meh), Steelers (sure, I guess), Rams (take it leave it) or 49ers (bandwagoners). Very few people back in the day gave two sniffs about anyone else. There were some Bears fans, maybe a few Dolphins loyalists here and there. But the Washington Commanders née Redskins? Not many. My origin story comes from the days when one of my neighbors was a classmate of Joe Theismann at Notre Dame. By then, Theismann was settling in as the full-time starter at QB in Washington and the neighbor was more a fan of him, not the team. Being the impressionable young lad I was, it was the aesthetics that drew me in. Simply put, I was (and am) a uniform nerd. Washington's color scheme and game-day look was so far removed from the Cowboys and Broncos that it felt retro cool to like a team that was just ... different. The duds they adopted in 1979 stuck around for more than 30 years, and the general look remained in place for more than four decades. To appreciate that kind of consistency one must look no further than the almighty wise man, Jerry Seinfeld. 'Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify because the players are always changing. The team could move to another city,' he once said. 'You're actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it, you know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city.' Couldn't have said it better myself. You revere the team but you absolutely love the laundry — unless you have a truly horrible look (yeah you, Titans, Seahawks and Falcons; fight me). All this to say Wednesday was a great day for us Washington fans. For the first time since the calamitous 2022 rebrand that brought us the horrific beveled number fonts, boring designs and nightmarish black alternates, the Commanders (still not prepared to adopt that name yet) unveiled alternative uniforms for the upcoming season. Wednesday's announcement came with little fanfare. ESPN didn't break into programming, The Athletic didn't release a photo spread and The Associated Press didn't explode with breaking news stories on the wire. Trust me, I looked. The team's social media platform dropped teases in recent days, giving hope that maybe the team would bring back the beloved spear logo used for five seasons in the '60s, or some version of the one-off retro kit worn in 2003. What we got was so much better. By stepping into the past and bringing back the classic unis worn during the peak years — the 'Super Bowl Era Threads' as the team calls them — it made the cringy and admittedly painful transition from Redskins to Washington Football Team to Commanders easier to take. From the piping on the pants and the stripes on the socks to the yellow facemasks and collegiate block number fonts on the jerseys (minus the ridiculous beveled look), it felt like staring at the Mrs. on our wedding day all over again. At long last, someone in Washington had the good sense to hold onto history without managing to offend anyone. Go ahead and leave the old name behind. We get it; it's offensive and will never come back. Just leave us the laundry and allow us to once again love the clothes that defined a generation. After last season's run to the NFC Championship and the potential of a return to D.C. at the site of the old RFK Stadium, getting our laundry back is a great step in the right direction. Seinfeld was right all along.
Boston Globe
an hour ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
MBTA to run special event trains to Gillette Stadium throughout Patriots season
Fans hoping to ride to the upcoming game against the Washington Commanders will need to act fast: tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Friday via the mTicket app and will be available only until trains reach capacity. Going forward, tickets will become available at 11 a.m. on the Monday preceding each home game. The one exception is for the Thursday Night Football game on Nov. 13 against the New York Jets, which will go on sale Thursday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m., the statement said. Boston trains will depart from South Station and stop at Back Bay and Dedham Corporate Center before arriving at Foxboro Station. Providence trains will depart from Providence Station and make stops in Pawtucket/Central Falls, Attleboro and Mansfield. Advertisement The official schedule for each special event train will be announced on the MBTA website closer to the game date, the statement said. But each train is expected to arrive about 90 minutes before kickoff and depart Foxboro Station 30 minutes after the game ends. All ticket sales are final, according to the statement. Tickets for each game are sold separately and must be purchased before boarding. Regular commuter rail tickets and passes will not be valid for the special event train. Advertisement Fans can also use regularly scheduled weekday trains on the Franklin/Foxboro Line to weekday Patriots For more information, including the dates of all Patriots home games, visit Rita Chandler can be reached at
The Guardian
2 hours ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
Commanders wideout Terry McLaurin requests trade after contract talks stall
Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin has requested a trade, according to multiple reports on Thursday. Frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiations toward a contract extension, McLaurin sat out the first four days of training camp before reporting on Sunday. After reporting, he can no longer be fined $50,000 per day. McLaurin, who turns 30 in September, became a hold-in and was placed on the team's physically unable to perform list with an apparent ankle injury suffered last season. He did not attend organized team activities and mandatory minicamp. He did, however, participate in spring workouts. 'You'd like to get these things done quicker, but it doesn't always happen that way,' general manager Adam Peters said. 'Whatever happens along the way, just understand he's a great player and we want to keep him here.' With a base salary of $15.5m and cap hit of $25.5m in the final season of a three-year, $68.3m contract, the speedster is coming off a career year with 1,096 receiving yards, 13 touchdowns and 82 receptions on 117 targets. He added three scores and 227 yards on 14 receptions in three playoff games. McLaurin and rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels helped lead Washington (12-5) to their best season since it won the Super Bowl in 1991. The Commanders knocked off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC wild-ard round and Detroit Lions in the divisional round before falling to the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship Game. Over six seasons with Washington, the two-time Pro Bowl selection (2022, 2024) has 6,379 receiving yards, 38 touchdowns and 460 catches in 97 games. A team captain, McLaurin has hit the 1,000-yard mark for a franchise-record five straight seasons despite instability at the quarterback position before Daniels' NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign.
News.com.au
3 hours ago
- Politics
- News.com.au
Donald Trump levels $5.7b threat to NFL team over name change
President Donald Trump could get in the way of plans for a swanky new Washington Commanders stadium. Trump is threatening to hold up the franchise's stadium deal if the team does not change its name back to the Redskins, which is considered offensive to Native Americans, the NY Post reports. 'I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change the name back to the original 'Washington Redskins,' and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, 'Washington Commanders,' I won't make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social account in June. The Commanders, who currently play at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., are planning to build a $AUD5.75 billion home at the site of the old RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. 'The Washington 'Whatever's' should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamouring for this,' Trump wrote. The team removed the Redskins moniker back in 2020 before rebranding in 2022 as the Commanders. Trump doubled down on his calls for the NFL team to change their name, along with MLB's Cleveland Guardians, when asked about it during a press conference on Friday (AEST). 'I love the Washington Redskins, I think they should do it,' he said. 'I told the mayor and I told people they should bring back the name, if they bring back the name you'll have a lot of excitement. 'The Cleveland Indians, how about that. It was an original franchise and what do they do they change their name. 'What's wrong with the word Indians? You know who is upset about it … the Indians are upset about it. They're upset about Redskins too. 'People want to see the Redskins and Indians want to see the Redskins back. I recommend it. The Washington Redskins, it's a fabled franchise and I don't even know what the hell their last name is. What're they called the Commanders or something? It's not a good name.' The Cleveland Guardians announced plans to ditch its old name, the Cleveland Indians, in late 2020 — after dropping the 'Chief Wahoo' logo years earlier. In July 2021, the Cleveland MLB team announced its new name would be the Cleveland Guardians, after having played under as the Indians since 1915. Despite Trump's repeated claims, both franchises have made it clear they don't plan on changing their names back.
Chicago Tribune
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Pro Bowl wide receiver Terry McLaurin has requested a trade from the Washington Commanders
Two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Terry McLaurin has asked the Washington Commanders to trade him because of a contract dispute, two people with knowledge of the request told The Associated Press. Both spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were private. McLaurin has been holding in at training camp. The veteran reported to camp Sunday after skipping the first four practices and parts of the offseason program. He remains on the physically unable to perform list with an ankle injury while contract talks continue. The Commanders reached the NFC championship game last season under first-year coach Dan Quinn and rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels. They added wideout Deebo Samuel in the offseason and are aiming to make a run at the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East. McLaurin had 82 catches for 1,096 yards and a career-high 13 touchdowns last season, earning second-team All-Pro honors. Several star players have requested trades from their teams due to contract issues over the past few years but ended up staying put — including Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, Cleveland Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk. Samuel asked for a trade from the 49ers a few years ago only to get a new deal in San Francisco. He was traded to Washington this past offseason.
