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Potomac Drainage Basin Retirement Announcement

Having restated last week my objections to the Redskins name, I think the time has come for me to retire my alternative, the Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons. I've been using this line for four years and pretty much pushed the joke to its logical conclusion. (Originally I called them the Chesapeake Watershed Region Indigenous Persons, but cartographically adept readers noted the Chesapeake watershed extends almost to Utica, N.Y., enfolding most of the Baltimore Ravens' viewing area.) So, in honor of Joe Gibbs return, I will resume calling this squad the Washington Redskins. Though as I sometimes use alternating cognomen -- Les Mouflons for the Rams, for example -- I may on occasion call the team the Potomac Nanticokes. The Nanticokes were the dominant tribe of the Potomac region when Europeans arrived there.