The Washington Gun-Takers. Tina Fey was onto something!
Washington Partisans
Or Monuments
Or Mallers
or the Filibusters, though Philadelphia probably already trademarked that as Philabusters.
The Washington Gun-Takers. Tina Fey was onto something!
They could do a tribute to Schlereth and call themselves the Washington Foggy Bottoms.
“What an embezzle! What an ultramaroon!”
https://futureofworking.com/33-best-bugs-bunny-sayings/
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I've never heard of that usage, so thanks for educating me on that. In the wikip article, the football team's name origin is innocuous (they ordered jerseys and didn't specify color - they got maroon as a random choice). The team was originally named the Pottsville Eleven.
Imagine if they went on to get a basketball team there, too ... they might have been the Maroon Five.
Washington Senators. That was the name of the former baseball team in DC. If not that the Washington Devils.
GoDuke!
I suggest either Grandstanders or Bloviators.
I think the Seattle Kraken is such a great name so why not got with the...Washington Sasquatch! Would probably work better in other areas of the country but I just love unique/weird names. My heart still breaks when I think of the SuperSonics.
UChicago are Maroons. I do like Generals. I've always called them Foreskins but that's not happening. Forward thinkers might go with 51ers (51sters?) -- not a date like SF but for when DC gets statehood.
“The Hamilton Compromises”
The Washington Deep Staters? Let the fiction persist...Washington plays pro football?
What about Washington Stealth Bombers... that way, if the kinda "disappear", no one will notice.
wishful thinking, I know - but how about the Washington Term Limits?