Grant and Danny
If The Commanders Are Good, Will It Be Harder To Change The Name?
Jaden Daniels is Jersey is the number one selling Jersey in the National Football League. I saw somewhere, and I don't know if this is true, that he also has the second highest selling Jersey over a short period of time, based on the other color, like you could go white, you could go burgundy, whatever. Point being, the guy is right now the biggest star in the National Football League, and you cannot turn on a national shouty show where they're not doing some topic about where he ranks and how good he is and how lucky we are in Washington, which is a fact. We might have found the thing we've been searching for for decades. We were out on the beach, Danny, like that old guy who woke up really early with his little, you know, his beeping machine, his little metal finder, a little metal sector, beep, beep, and we might have finally found the thing with the buried treasure. So we're lucky or happy about that, but because of his Jersey sales, kind of got me to thinking about him being the guy, the commanders right now being the 18, then I saw this quote from Roger Goodell on Good Morning Football. Have you heard what he said about the commanders this week? Oh, I saw it. I'm going to read this quote to people. Goodell on NFL Network did a morning interview. This was two days ago, would have been on Tuesday. I know what that franchise means to that community. You can see they're on the right path. I just think that team is on the rise. I think it'll be fun for the league to have them back. Now, there's a lot you can pull out of that quote. First of all, I think it's an amazing quote to say, have them back because it really does feel like we've been on our own island out here, not really a part of the NFL. Just completely irrelevant for a long time. Yeah. Everyone kind of had to play pretend. Right? I mean, because you, it's really hard to remove an owner. It took what we just went through, which is lawsuits, minority owners, suing court cases involving Bruce Allen, John Gruden, potentially behind the scenes testimony debt that couldn't be repaid. And all the strong arming in the world is what it took to pry that tyrant away from his team. It's not the owners are set up to be owners. And that's what the whole league is. It's a group of 32, give or take with Green Bay being the exception, but basically 32 billionaires in a club. And that's what this is. It's all for their amusement, really, and to make a lot of money. It's not set up to remove them, right? I think it'll be fun for the league to have them back. It reminds me of the member of the family that was cast off. You got into the relationship that everyone else didn't support or, you know, you went down the wrong path and they tried to help you and they couldn't and eventually they just kind of wrote you off and said, they'll come back maybe. We'll see. And you're back. And you're at Thanksgiving again. And you're hanging out again and everyone's just kind of, you know, punching the arm going, Hey, it's good to have you back, Danny. That's the vibe, right? Filling you. But between that comment and the Daniels Jersey sales, it has brought back this idea that we're only probably an excellent football season away. We're a couple of really good football seasons away from it being a lot harder to get rid of this name. And I want to know if you're ready to make peace with that, Mr. Ruya. If the commanders are good, the name is going to stick. Now I tweeted something to this effect a couple of days ago at Grand H. Paulson and most of the responses are angry people telling me how much they hate the name and how I'm done. And that's fine. But I'm not telling you you will like the name more because they're winning. That's what people are yelling me at me as if I said that's not what I said. You got to listen to me. I'm not suggesting if you don't like the name that the name will grow on you. Although that may eventually happen. That's certainly not my point. My point is, and I think this is actually just common sense, if the commanders are really good and they win 11 games for the first time since 1991, if the commanders get to the playoffs and win a game for the first time in 19 years and then come in the next year expected to be good and do another double digit win thing where they get to the playoffs and maybe go on a run. It just gets more difficult to change the name and I just want everyone to understand that. I'm not saying you shouldn't be rooting for that. I'm not saying we should be hoping they lose. That would be ridiculous. I'm just saying it's time to make peace with this fact that if they're good and they have a quarterback that everybody likes check and jerseys are flying off the shelves and commanders merchandise is being purchased at a rate that it wasn't previously and they become the cool team nationally, which we're already seeing and they become the team in town, which we're starting to see. The name is not going anywhere. The great Thomas soul has a quote that I often reference. There are no solutions, only trade offs. This is the trade off. I hate the name. It reminds me of Dan Snyder. I can't say it because it reminds me of Snyder. The whole thing is just Snyder to me. He ruined everything and this was his last echo of his time here. I can't stand it. I hate the name. I hate it so much. I tried and never say it. It's sticking. This is the plan. I'm telling you all along. This is the plan. They're going to kick the can down the road because they'd rather not spend the millions of dollars on the rebrand and the read this and the reread this and then this PR campaign and this sunvelling and the next due to 22. Yeah, you could change the name again. You could change it down a lot if it doesn't. If you don't have to do it, they're not going to do it and the every Jaden Daniels current team name Jersey that sold is another reason not to change it again. It's going to stick and this is how it's going to stick is there good and it's going, well, we got enough. I think the premise is irrefutable. Frankly, I think this is common sense, right? The better the football team is, the more likely the name sticks. Can you make peace with that?