{"id":18853,"date":"2012-10-18T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=18853"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:00:18","slug":"washington-pigskins-that-kind-of-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2012\/10\/washington-pigskins-that-kind-of-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Pigskins? That kind of works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>CityPaper<\/em> has become the latest publication to announce they won&#8217;t use the term &#8220;Redskins&#8221; anymore. They held a brief poll to rename the team and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2012\/10\/18\/hail-to-the-pigskins\/\">Pigskins won out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the last week, 1,125 of you voted on which of five names we should go with, and Pigskins\u2014a.k.a. Hogs, in a tribute to the team\u2019s great offensive line of the first Joe Gibbs era\u2014stiff-armed the competition like John Riggins did to Don McNeal in Super Bowl XVII. The name won 50 percent of the vote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;One added benefit to the name: The \u2019Skins abbreviation still works. And even the team\u2019s fight song can fit our new style, with only slight modification: \u201cHail to the Pigskins, hail victory, Hogs on the warpath, fight for old D.C.!\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good a compromise that will ever be found I suppose. Of course, since it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2011\/09\/redskins-owner-dan-snyder-drops-citypaper-suit.html\">the CityPaper making the suggestion, it won&#8217;t fly with Dan Snyder<\/a>. PETA won&#8217;t like either, so the name has that going for it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2012\/02\/i-think-ive-solved-the-dc-sports-nickname-problem.html\">Redbullets is awesome<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CityPaper has become the latest publication to announce they won&#8217;t use the term &#8220;Redskins&#8221; anymore. They held a brief poll to rename the team and Pigskins won out: Over the last week, 1,125 of you voted on which of five names we should go with, and Pigskins\u2014a.k.a. 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