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I love how they just now find it offensive. not in the decades the name has existed, but only this year.

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It's a generational thing. People these days find everything offensive.

I don't even blame them, honestly. The only reasons all these "PC" issues exist is because we cater to the minority of people who want to feel special and be offended by every little thing.

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Why is Simms now outraged by the name?

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He didn't seem outraged to me

Not seeing what's wrong with him not saying "Redskins".

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NFL will put the pressure on CBS. He'll say it or CBS won't be broadcasting after their agreement is up

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They're not going to cost themselves billions in potential leverage just because Phil Simms won't say Redskins.

Especially since he is a CBS (thus, AFC) announcer and the odds of the number one booth announcing the game that the Redskins just happen to be playing on the network will probably be remote.

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I watched a little of Olberman last night doing the Skins highlight. He called them everything but the Redskins.

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That tells you all you need to know. I'll use the term Redskins MORE now that I know this.

It's absurd they want to make the redskins change their name. Native Americans claim it's offensive but they have Native American high schools who call themselves redskins. I guess it's similar to the "n" word. It's only racist if a white man says it

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They're not going to cost themselves billions in potential leverage just because Phil Simms won't say Redskins

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I don't know the networks official position, but it would be hard for me to imagine abc and nbc not being interested in sunday afternoon nfl broadcasting rights

for abc it is a great lead in for shows (I don't know how this works with programming being increasingly targeted at females and ABC is at the forefront of this)

this wouldn't be shite if it was someone lower down the ladder, but simms gets cbs' top games...meaning everyone minus local NFL markets will see it...it is the most exposure...to have him

1. drawing attention to the fact he won't say it, and
2. drawing attention to a negative aspect of the NFL (not just the redskins) is sure to piss them off...that's not where they want the attention and it isn't the attention they want.

I would imagine there is a good possibility someone has reached out to CBS execs on behalf of the NFL. It is one thing for dungy to do it on a halftime show or highlight show, it is quite another for a high profile color analyst to do it on a national broadcast...personally, I would be irate if I had a financial stake in the NFL. Moreover, I think it is unprofessional, but I'm not losing sleep over it

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1. drawing attention to the fact he won't say it, and

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I can agree with this. For some reason, everybody wants to have their "look at me" moment about this. Phil could have just done his little boycott and nobody would have noticed because:

1) He's an AFC booth guy so the odds of him having to deal with the Redskins at all in any given year is remote.

2) He's the color guy so he focuses more on the play at hand. Nantz, as the analyst, is the one that deals with the overall picture as well as the one that takes people in and out of breaks (thus needing to read things like the score and teams)

3) Booth guys mix up team and city names all the time. Guys will alternate between addressing teams as "Denver" and "The Broncos" (as an example) all the time. Unless they're looking for it, people won't notice how one addresses a team.

So, while I doubt this damages CBS's relationship with the NFL, I do agree that this was very teen girl of him.

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It could get a little awkward in the booth, given that Jim Nantz, who works with Simms, plans to use the name because Nantz believes it is “not my job to take a stance.”

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I don't know the networks official position, but it would be hard for me to imagine abc and nbc not being interested in sunday afternoon nfl broadcasting rights

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CBS only has a one year deal on Thursday night football as well.

phil will back down.

1. I don't think he cares
2. phil isn't really that valuable to cbs...he's not a must see personality like ESPN has with Gruden. CBS will tell him to shut up, and to say redskins, and they'll probably only ask him to do it very little, just so there isn't anything for people to write about, point at, or distract fans from the broadcast...

when games are happening on the field, I would imagine the NFL doesn't want any of this shite...they don't mind jibber jabber shows, highlight shows, blogs...but not while their product is on the field