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6 possible Washington nicknames after the elimination of Warriors

The Washington Football Team will have a new name and logo in early 2022. It won’t be Warriors. Here are six possibilities.

It’s been a busy week as it pertains to the Washington Football Team and its impending rebrand. Team president Jason Wright recently sat down with Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post and said the new name and logo would be revealed in early 2022.

Not long after Jhabvala’s story on Wright, the team president published a memo on the team’s official website confirming the nickname “Warriors” would not be Washington’s new nickname. That had been a popular choice for some fans.

Where does Washington go now?

We’ve compiled a list of six possible nicknames for the Washington Football Team now that one of the previous favorites has been eliminated.

Keep in mind that these aren’t necessarily our top choices, but some of the names discussed over the past year.

Washington president Jason Wright is huge fan of passion behind ‘Redwolves’ movement

Jason Wright made note of the passionate support of Redwolves name in Washington, which he hoped to harness going forward.

With the breaking news on Monday morning that the Washington Football Team had hired Jason Wright to be the newest team president, making him both the first Black president in NFL history, and the young current president in the league (38), Washington Twitter circles were abuzz all day celebrating the news.

What is most exciting about the new hire is learning that Wright, who played in the NFL for several years, will be at the forefront of the coming name-change in Washington, which should take place somewhere over the next year or two. As it is such a hot topic among fans in D.C., Wright was not shy about discussing what the process would be like for changing the name going forward, and he made sure to note that one name in particular — the Redwolves — seems to have an incredibly passionate group of fans pushing for that to be the choice.

“I think within 30 seconds of being announced, someone tweeted and blew up my Twitter with Redwolves propaganda,” Wright said with a laugh on the Washington Football Talk Podcast. “This is a very aggressive campaign around Redwolves, which is wonderful! The passion is fantastic, and that’s what’s kept this franchise afloat, frankly. You have fans that are so engaged on this, and we are absolutely going to harness that. That’s what’s going to carry the momentum forward on this culture change.”

There are a number of candidates for the new name, of which the Redwolves is only one that many fans seem to be debating between. Regardless of where the team decides to go, they’ve made it clear that fan and sponsor input will be incredibly important going forward as they try to find the right answer and help cement the culture change that is currently taking place.

“I love it, I love it,” Wright said. “Wherever we may land might piss some folks off, I have no idea. But my guess is that if we do it right, everybody will understand how the process went. They will have seen their input go into some aspect of the new identity, whether that’s the name, or the uniform, or the way we’re choosing to approach the community going forward. Hopefully, every fan will be able to see themselves in it, and therefore we walk out of this in just such a tight-knit new way.”

If you aren’t convinced that Wright is the right person for the job in Washington by his comments on Monday, I’m unsure of what more to tell you. Something is taking root in Washington, and Wright will undoubtedly be a major part of it going forward.

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Report: Washington to ‘retire’ Redskins name on Monday morning

It is unknown if a new name will be put into place, but reports show that Washington plans to retire the Redskins name on Monday.

It will be out with the old on Monday morning, but it may not quite yet be in with the new.

According to a report from USA TODAY, the Washington Redskins are set to announce the retirement of their current team name on Monday morning, while there is not yet a new name set in place as of yet.

Just less than two weeks after one of his most prominent corporate sponsors urged him to change the name of his football team, Washington owner Daniel Snyder plans to announce the retirement of the “Redskins” nickname and reveal a new team name Monday morning, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement of a pending change had not been made.

Other reports over the weekend said that a name change could come ‘sooner rather than later,’ and a few interesting social media detectives have found bread crumbs that lead many to believe that Redwolves will be the new mascot. Both the Warriors and Redtails are also in consideration.

Whether or not a  new name will be announced on Monday is unclear, but it seems apparent that Washington will do away with the ‘Redskins’ name once and for all.

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