It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for an official announcement on the Washington Football Team name change.
The team changed its name to the Washington Football Team for last season and it’s sort of stuck as the new moniker ever since. Folks have grown accustomed to it and it has a certain ring to it.
Despite people’s support behind Washington Football Team as the new name, the organization hasn’t yet committed it or anything else as its official new branding.
That’s going to change fairly soon, though. The organization is reportedly down to its final three names, Front Office Sports reports.
The Washington Football Team has reportedly narrowed their list of potential names down to 3 options, per the team's "Making the Brand" series.
Their finalists come from these eight:
– Armada
– Presidents
– Brigade
– RedHogs
– Commanders
– RedWolves
– Defenders
– WFT pic.twitter.com/8W4eEpEwRS— Front Office Sports (@FOS) August 18, 2021
There’s another wrinkle in this, however. Apparently, Team President Jason Wright confirmed they are, indeed, down to the final 3 names. But they were not derived from this list.
Just to be clear, because everyone keeps asking, we are down to and working through a final three but this is no form of final 8 list. These are just a selection of names that happened to show up in the video our team produced. https://t.co/IzeMAE64EO
— Jason Wright (@whoisjwright) August 19, 2021
So we could really get ANYTHING as the name at this point. We have no idea what direction the team is going to go in.
But we’re going to have fun with this, anyway. Here’s a ranking of the reported names out there from best to worst. And, because I’m nice, here are a few other suggestions from myself as a native DMVer.
This will be fun.