Letters to the Editor Sunday, March 7 | The Daily Gazette
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Recently in sports, the trend has been to eliminate nicknames that upset certain people.
In life, just about everybody gets a chance to name their children and their pets.
I’d like to suggest nicknames for the nation’s sports teams that are up for grabs.
Washington of the NFL presently doesn’t have a nickname. I suppose you could call them the “Nonames” as most of the seemingly good names are taken by other teams, like: “The Generals,” “The Senators,” “The Patriots,” “The Revolutions” and “The Diplomats,” etc.
I’m suggesting “The Franklins” after one of our great patriots and citizens of Colonial Days, Benjamin Franklin. In the early days of our country there was a territory named Franklin that missed out on becoming a state.