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My idea for Washington NFL team should they go to Warriors


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NOTICE: Please read this before you decide to post. If you're just going to comment on the logo suggestion, feel free to post. If you're just wanting to make a post that will turn this into a political football, don't bother.

.As you know, the USPTO said that they would not continue to trademark the name Redskins, and many people on this board have suggested the team go to Warriors, which in fact, owner Daniel Snyder has sent a trade mark on.

My suggestion would be to either use a logo of a soldier from the Marines Memorial in Washington (which was taken from a picture of the US Marines raising the American flag at Mt. Suribachi at Iwo Jima). It could either be a composite of the soldiers who raised the flag or (here is my suggestion) model the logo after Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation in Arizona who was immortalized in the song written by Peter LaFarge, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (the most famous version being sung by Johnny Cash in 1964).

The logo would be the face to the Warrior/Soldier inside of a circle surrounded by laurel leaves. The helmet would be burgundy with the logo being gold and white with burgundy accents.

I feel that, this way, the logo would honor both the men and women who fought for our country and put a positive light to the Native Americans.

Here are some logo ideas (not done by me) followed by the pictures of the Monument and then of Ira Hayes, followed by a link for Ira's biography and the song by Johnny Cash.

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Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian that you should remember well
From the tribe of the Pima Indian, a proud and peaceful band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Til the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water stopped

Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
But when war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived
To fight back down again

And when that fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Ira returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored
Everybody shook his hand

But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no crops, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira had done
And when did the Indians dance

Then Ira started drinkin' hard
Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
Like you'd throw a dog a bone

He died drunk early one mornin'
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died

Link to the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1pLlmMcmk&feature=player_embedded

Again,please read this before you decide to post. If you're just going to comment on the logo suggestion, feel free to post. If you're just wanting to make a post that will turn this into a political football, don't bother.

Atlanta Braves, please bring back the Indian Head logo.

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