Transcript
Christina Quinn (0:00)
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Elahe Izadi (0:04)
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Clay Travis (0:34)
Come back in, everybody. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now and we said we're going to dive into it. Clay. I kind of want to, because I voted for this. Yeah, sure, way to put it. I voted for this. I did. I wanted somebody who was going to come in and say this cultural Marxism, this Maoist cultural revolution that was really put in motion by the eight years of Obama, but continued during the presidency of Joe Biden. This turning our back on our history, rewriting history, feeling like we should all be, or at least some of us should be sorry for American history, all this. No, enough is enough. And I think that we reached our fill of that nonsense a long time ago. But here is a moment in time where I actually wasn't even expecting Trump to do this. I didn't know this was going to happen. He has said that it is time for the Washington Commanders to go back to the Redskins. He had a post on Truth Social. He said the Washington Whatevers should immediately change their name back to the Washington Redskins football team. There's a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams with a storied past, are great. Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a country of passion and common sense. All caps owners, get it done. Mr. Clay, is this going to get done? What do you make of this? What do you think of this? Is it possible? And what do the fans want? Take me through it.
Buck Sexton (2:31)
So I put up a poll, and I'm not saying that my audience is 100% representative of the average sports fan, but my poll showed 97% of my audience wanted the name to go back to Washington Redskins. And I asked the question, and I think it's a good one. Is there anybody out there that even if they are super left leaning, where it would be 97. Three the other way right. So let's presume Keith Olbermann put up this poll for his audience. I don't think 97% of his audience, even though they are super left wing, crazy, insane people, would vote, hey, keep the Washington commander's name. And I don't know that the team and New York, correct me if I'm wrong, has not commented on this yet. The Cleveland Indians did, and they said, we love the Guardians. And everybody listening in Cleveland right now is saying, no, we don't. This is a stupid name. We would much prefer that the Cleveland Indian name came back. Uh, but I would say that what is interesting to me about this is twofold. One, Trump is putting it on his shoulders and actually giving the team a little bit of a pass because he's saying, hey, if you want a brand new stadium on federal land in Washington, D.C. and you want the federal government and the District of Columbia government to help you and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in financing, then one of the conditions associated with this is, I think you should be the Redskins. Again, I don't dislike that. This is not somebody deciding to come into a private business and dictate how they do business. He's saying, hey, if you want the federal government's help to build a great new stadium in Washington D.C. then there are all sorts of conditions that the government, as a partner in this negotiation would demand. Returning the name of Redskins, I think is a significant ask, but also a reasonable 1.2. This is, I think, symbolically important because I hinted at this when we went to break. I like to think of myself as a reasonable person. Now, some of you out there might say you are crazy. You're not really okay? But I. I think in general, I have my pulse on the average sports fan in America. I think I could sit down with them no matter where they're from, and we could have a good conversation no matter what their background. Buck points out. And I do think it's true that if you are a college football fan, I feel like I could find common ground with you.
