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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1226623" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Just because you get a 'red bruise' when your hubby beats you is no reason to call the team 'red brews'.</p><p></p><p>Brilliant! No, not really.</p><p></p><p>Via <a href="http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/190909-pelosi-weighs-in-on-redskins-name" target="_blank">The Hill</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has a suggestion for how to put an end to the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins’ team name: holding a contest.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“I think we should have a contest for naming,” the House Minority Leader told BuzzFeed’s John Stanton at the website’s “BuzzFeed Brews” event in Washington.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Pelosi, a Baltimore native whose dad was a Maryland congressman said, “I don’t know if there’s any will to change the name, but maybe a good enough name, you never know.” [...]</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Pelosi initially declined to weigh in on what she thought the name should be changed to, before pointing to a sign behind her set up for the BuzzFeed Brews event and offered, <strong>“How about the Red Brews?”</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1226623, member: 1246"] Just because you get a 'red bruise' when your hubby beats you is no reason to call the team 'red brews'. Brilliant! No, not really. Via [URL="http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/190909-pelosi-weighs-in-on-redskins-name"]The Hill[/URL]: [INDENT]Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has a suggestion for how to put an end to the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins’ team name: holding a contest. “I think we should have a contest for naming,” the House Minority Leader told BuzzFeed’s John Stanton at the website’s “BuzzFeed Brews” event in Washington. Pelosi, a Baltimore native whose dad was a Maryland congressman said, “I don’t know if there’s any will to change the name, but maybe a good enough name, you never know.” [...] Pelosi initially declined to weigh in on what she thought the name should be changed to, before pointing to a sign behind her set up for the BuzzFeed Brews event and offered, [B]“How about the Red Brews?”[/B] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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