Washington Football Team Floats Potential Name Changes

The Washington Football Team will remain the Washington Football Team for another season. After that, we may finally see the long awaited new, full-time nickname for the franchise.

A number of options have been floated for years now. This week, the team sent season-ticket holders an email to poll them on name options, with individuals receiving unique polls. Each included about 10 names, but in total it looks like the Washington Football Team is considering over 30 names.

“This is an ongoing, iterative process — we’ve used focus groups, stakeholder interviews, large-scale surveys, and other qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand what fans want and what types of names resonate with our fans,” team president Jason Wright said in his letter to the ticket holders, per NBC Sports’ Pete Hailey. “To that end, we want to ask all of YOU for your input on what kinds of names are most meaningful to you – which concepts represent what you love about this organization and what this team means to you.”

Washington Football Team remains an option per the poll. It is joined by the even more clunky First City Football Club, as well as 32FC. Guardians, Redtails, Redwolves, and Warriors are among the other popular options that date back to last summer, when the renaming was first announced.

CBS Sports has compiled a large list of the various names that season ticket holders have been asked to consider, in alphabetical order.

Aces
Ambassadors
Anchors
Archers
Armada
Aviators
Beacons
Belters
Brigade
Commanders
Defenders
Demon Cats
First City Football Club (FCFC)
Griffins
Guardians
Icons
Majors
Monarchs
Pilots
Presidents
Razorbacks
Redtails
Redwolves
Red Hogs
Renegades
Riders
Rising
Royals
Rubies
Swifts
Warriors
Washington DC Football Club (DCFC)
Wayfarers
Wild Hogs
32FC (W32)
Football Team

There are some definite winners and losers in that group, but at least fans are getting plenty of options to choose from.

[CBS Sports]

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