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>> I have no problem with you having your personal views that you do not like the name, but you are not satisfied with your own views, you have to try to claim that the name is offensive to everyone.


Where precisely did I do that?

As I said earlier, my posting to this board *is* my research ...

>>Yet, if racism were his motivation in chosing the team name... why, then, was Deitz his head coach?

I suppose one can only speculate about these things. I have enough information to paint a picture in my mind of how it might have gone down. Apparently Deitz was known to be a great coach, but ...

This comes from an article written in 2006 to honor Dietz:

Dietz became coach of the Boston Braves of the National Football League for two seasons in 1933 and 1934. He so impressed owner George Preston Marshall that the team was renamed the Redskins in his honor, a name which stuck after the ...

You sound overly defensive. I have no agenda other than the fact that I live here now and would like to feel better about the team. I got a very rude welcome when I arrived from New Orleans. I am a huge football fan. I only missed seeing two Saints games in their entire history. I was in Taiwan at ...

Thanks for the response. That is an interesting take on the name choice.

The thread on the Saints board had quite a few people who didn't think the name was offensive. I thought it would be a good idea to go closer to the source for explanations. There are a lot of members on Saintsreport.com ...

It sounds like you didn't go deep into the thread, but yes, pete is probably not the brightest bulb on the porch.

So what, precisely, is the "intent" of the name?

A Saints' board has quite a thread on this topic: http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194247