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A powerful voice rises in support of Washington's NFL team name
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2013/12/05/3024221/rob-ford-loves-washington-football-teams-skins-skins/
Daniel Snyder, the owner of Washington’s football team, hasn’t found many allies in the political world when it comes to protecting the team’s controversial name. President Obama has said he’d consider dropping the “Redskins” name; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a lifelong Washington fan, is over it. The top Democrat and top Republican on the House Indian Affairs Committee oppose it. Other members of Congress have spoken out too.
Enter Rob Ford, the embattled Toronto mayor who seems to be a big NFL fan, given that he wore a necktie adorned with old-school NFL logos to the press conference in which he admitted using crack. Ford is still a fan of both the “Redskins” name and others like it.
“That’s ridiculous,” Ford said, according to the Toronto Sun. “What are we going to call the Cleveland Indians? The Cleveland Aboriginals next? Where do we start? The ‘Skins are the ‘Skins and I stick with the Washington Redskins.”
As Lauren Strapagiel from Canada.com wrote Wednesday, Ford has a checkered past with racial issues. He once referred to a football team he used to coach as “just a group of minorities” and allegedly called a foreign cab driver a “Paki.” In 2008, talking about successful Asian workers, he said, “Those oriental people work like dogs.”
Enter Rob Ford, the embattled Toronto mayor who seems to be a big NFL fan, given that he wore a necktie adorned with old-school NFL logos to the press conference in which he admitted using crack. Ford is still a fan of both the “Redskins” name and others like it.
“That’s ridiculous,” Ford said, according to the Toronto Sun. “What are we going to call the Cleveland Indians? The Cleveland Aboriginals next? Where do we start? The ‘Skins are the ‘Skins and I stick with the Washington Redskins.”
As Lauren Strapagiel from Canada.com wrote Wednesday, Ford has a checkered past with racial issues. He once referred to a football team he used to coach as “just a group of minorities” and allegedly called a foreign cab driver a “Paki.” In 2008, talking about successful Asian workers, he said, “Those oriental people work like dogs.”
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But I thought he was a Buffalo Bills fan.
