Washington’s NFL Team Could Be Renamed the ‘Red Tails.’ Real Tuskegee Airmen Have Mixed Feelings Abo

[rangerrebew]

Washington’s NFL Team Could Be Renamed the ‘Red Tails.’ Real Tuskegee Airmen Have Mixed Feelings About That
 
By Sean Gregory
July 14, 2020 6:38 PM EDT

Would Lt. Col. Harold Brown, one of America’s first African-American military pilots, who flew with the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, be in favor of the Washington, D.C., NFL team changing its name to the Washington Red Tails? The nickname, which comes from the painted planes flown by the Tuskegee Airmen, has been floated as a possible solution for the team in search of a name—and in this one corner, at least, the idea would find abundant support.

“Absolutely,” says Brown, 95, from from his home in Port Clinton, Ohio. Brown is one of the nine surviving Tuskegee pilots who flew in combat. “Thinking about it sort of selfishly in terms of our own legacy, we are running out of pilots,” says Brown. “Waiting a few years, that would be the end of us. I don’t know of a better way to keep that name alive than to put it on a name right behind ‘Washington.'”

https://time.com/5866636/washington-nfl-redskins-red-tails/

[rangerrebew]

Personally, I think Washington Foreskins is the best idea.  However, since it is obviously a male name it will be rejected by feminazis.

[catfish1957]

Red Tails?

Isn't what happens to inmates after being worked over by Bubba in Cell Block B?
I can think of a few hundred who work in DC, that I'd like to see join that team. 

[Smokin Joe]

I don't blame the Airmen, frankly, because such a renaming of the team would make their accomplishments fade into search engine obscurity.

In an age which is ever less reliant on the written word (hard copy), and increasingly dependent on the interwebs for information (and even a stray fact or two), searching for the "Redtails" would only bring up sports references, and not a fighter group.

Something similar happened when the Bundy Ranch incident was taking place, and those who searched for the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) suddenly got only stuff about an ethnocentric Marxist group.

[rustynail]

After the Red-tailed monkey?  Is not that somehow racist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_monkey

[sneakypete]

How about the "Coon Tails"

All the fans could wear "Davy Crockett Coon Skin Caps".

How cool would THAT be?

[Hoodat]

Personally, I think Washington Foreskins is the best idea.

You must be a Cowboys fan.