LANDOVER, Md., Dec. 8 (UPI) — Two terrible NFL teams weren’t the only ones off of their games Monday night.
Amid the Dallas Cowboys’ 19-16 victory, ESPN cut to a graphic at 9:30 in the first quarter that read “Cowboys 0, Redksins 0.”
The blunder was especially interesting due to the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins’ name.
So much controversy surrounds the naming issue that defensive end Jason Hatcher recently suggested that referees were possibly making calls against the team due to its name.
“I’m not saying this out of character to get fined, but it is what it is,” Hatcher said after Washington’s 44-16 loss Nov. 22 to the Carolina Panthers. “I don’t know if it’s about the name or what, but at the same time, we play football too. We work our butt off too. Don’t single us out. At the end of the day, it’s the name. Don’t worry about the name – we players and we work our butt off too. I’m just frustrated with it. We shouldn’t have to be punished for that. It’s been every game, calls after calls that should’ve been made in our favor, but it goes to them. It’s just not right. We in the league too. We’re National Football players. We got a team too. We go out there, and we sweat and work hard too. I don’t give a crap about the name. We are players. We’ve got feelings too, and we want to win too.”
Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has said numerous times that the team will never change its name.
“We’ll never change the name,” Snyder told USA Today in 2013. “It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
In July, a federal judge upheld a ruling, ordering the removal of the team’s trademark registrations because they were offensive to Native Americans.
The team is currently appealing the decision.
The 5-7 Redskins are in first place in the NFC East, despite losing two of its last three games. A week 14 match up is set for 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 with the Bears in Chicago.
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