What's in a Team Name? II

A few weeks ago I criticized the NFL team representing Our Nation's Capital to change it's racist name to the Washington Gridlock.  Maybe momentum is building.  Here's a great passage from Gregg Easterbrook's NFL blog, "Tuesday Morning Quarterback."  By the way, you can read Easterbrooks's funny and iconoclastic thoughts every Tuesday (when else?) during the football season here.  Is "Insiders" better than "Gridlock"?

Slate magazine, newly divorced from the Washington Post, will no longer refer to this team as the Redskins, finding the term racists.  It's blowin' in the wind -- the Redskins will not be Redskins much longer, and on one gives a hoot what Chainsaw Dan [Snyder, the owner] thinks.

TMQ banged the drum for years about eliminating the Redskins name.  Then, when the world seemed to lose interest, I returned to using the name in the column.  Now that interest is rising anew -- two lawsuits are in progress -- this column will go back to calling the franchise in question the Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons.  Not only is Redskins inappropriate, the Washington part isn't right either, as the team practices in Virginia and performs in Maryland.  Like Slate, I will use "Redskins" only in direct quotation of others.  Persons or Potatoes will be the column's shorthand, bounding off Tony Kornheiser's great line that "Redskins" would be a fine name so long as the logo was a side dish of potatoes.

Wouldn't it be nice if, rather than acting defiant, Chainsaw Dan showed people that he cared?  That would be possible only if he cared.  The Persons recently finished 108th in the rankings of fan value published by ESPN The Magazine.

To what should this team's name be changed?  TMQ thinks the franchise should be rechristened the Washington Insiders.  In winning seasons, they'd be the powerful Insiders.