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The Commanders released new uniforms today and fans seem mostly thrilled.
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00:00800-636-1067 it's funny i'm starting to get texts from friends a lot of tweets a lot of reaction
00:07uh we had a salesperson here that we had it's funny that we talked to about this yesterday
00:12and this person was like man i want the old logo change their mind today i just got a text
00:17from
00:17this person said okay those are fire i love that we finally have adults in the building there you
00:22go they are moving this thing forward our guy mikey marr from the junks has been you've been
00:27working i guess so mikey came in with a plan mike came with a black black wash and nose i
00:35had a
00:35feeling these uniforms are going to be fire especially with the black edition the black
00:39alternates this is easily the hottest helmet in the nfl right now no question so you're how old 25
00:46and you've been a skids fan commander's fan your whole life whole life where did the previous
00:52batch of jerseys leave you feeling so disappointed i mean it was nothing like our original colors the
00:58burgundy was a little off you know the white everything about it i hated these new uh uniform
01:03drops today fire a plus 10 out of 10 even beyond the black which is its own entity right it's
01:09a true
01:09alternate now what about going back to the classic burgundy and the white jerseys i mean that's what
01:13it's about they're just paying homage to you know the guys that built the foundation three super
01:17bowls you know they're just paying homage to those guys as they should we're back skins are all the
01:22way back baby i love it mikey thank you buddy but so mikey came in because he just wanted to
01:26take a
01:27picture of the black helmet yeah um we're gonna have to figure out where to put this stuff because
01:32it's gonna get legs we better talk to the cluster buster or something to make sure this gets secured
01:38um phone lines are open 800-636-1067 800-636-1067 let's start with
01:46ant in frederick and how you feeling about the new unis
01:53ant what's up man all right and it's going my bad it was on mute my bad all good what's
01:59up dude
01:59yep yeah love the new unis and it goes back to our roots um so my highlight as a red
02:05skin our
02:05commanders fan was back gibbs 2.0 so it's going to be cool to see how they do the combos
02:11with their
02:12jerseys and the pants like that would be cool to see those white on whites again even the 2012 when
02:17they did the white tops gold bottoms so i'm just excited all around but obviously let's get the
02:22wins first and then we can enjoy the uniforms with that and that's it y'all i appreciate the time
02:27thanks buddy appreciate you i am almost curious yeah take care of you like i think the feedback is
02:33like overwhelmingly positive now we'll see right we're going to keep the phone lines open for an hour
02:38people always have you know i am jay right uh let's go to rusty in delaware rusty what's up
02:43man what do you think rusty i already ordered two fellas fellas yes exactly i love the look and i'm
02:50not gonna lie i was a little concerned last night when i saw the sweatshirt image that had the w
02:55with
02:55the arrow going through it and that was confirmed to be an alternate logo but after seeing it on the
03:01helmet after seeing that black and burgundy and gold put together the stripes on the pants i mean i feel
03:08like i got my football team back guys i'm almost getting emotional sitting here talking about it
03:12when i think about this stuff i've already bought my son two jerseys a jersey that i like they haven't
03:17released those just yet but i'm so excited and oh thank you guys for having mark klaus on this morning
03:23because how much of a breath of fresh air is it to have a team representative talk to you guys
03:28and
03:29our fan base like we're we're not stupid i mean the last the last group that talked to everybody they
03:35talked down and they just seemed like they were holier than now i mean mark was great on the radio
03:40this morning i'm so excited we're out of town for work this week so i'm communicating with jackson
03:45through the phone man it's a great day to be a commander fan hail to the commanders great call
03:51there you go appreciate you brother um i know that there are people at northwest stadium right now
03:56trying to buy this stuff if anybody's at northwest give us a call i'm curious how that's going
04:01um i haven't phone lines are packed we're going to take phones for at least the next hour so
04:08everybody chill out i would like to tell jeff or stallion i'd like to send up the bat signal for
04:12doc
04:13i'd like to see if we can get doc walker on maybe at 12 30 or something and just get
04:17his reaction um
04:18but i want to let jeff chime in jeff walker or our our most passionate
04:29ad we're all pretty passionate yeah what do the uniforms mean to you dude i love them jp um
04:35i kind of moved on from the getting the name back i didn't think it was coming back but the
04:40old logo
04:41i did want the old logo i'm not gonna sit here and lie but i love them i love them
04:46it just it gives
04:48even though these are familiar to you all uh we saw them you know but they wasn't winning when we
04:55saw
04:55them in those colors it's just something new and they get like even this black jersey it gives
05:01the younger fans younger than me it's like they will always remember this black jersey now because
05:07it came out as the team got good and they're seeing the team turn around totally i for me
05:15getting the classic burgundy back
05:19knowing how not burgundy the last joint was you know what i mean like listening to mark klaus and
05:28sincerely appreciate mark klaus taking the time definitely to join us he did not have to drive
05:33from ashburn to downtown dc and he did um like but his i think you've got to say ownership right
05:42like the organization accepted think about for how long they tried to act like no all the colors
05:49are the same you guys are just crazy we're not crazy they're not the same colors now they are yeah
05:55like uniforms should have uniformity and now they have it the block letters there's a lot to really
06:00like none of you know what the most important thing is going to happen this month for the football
06:06team the draft is who they draft next week yeah but like these are the things that ownership can
06:12control that the business office can control that you can do the right way and as he sat there and
06:17said to the fans they do look at stuff and listen to things and try to incorporate it now he
06:23never
06:24said we're gonna do everything you want right and i think that's what i keep trying to say where
06:28you as a a representative an owner and all you listen and then you say what makes sense
06:36and let's be real not everything we say as fans makes sense and sometimes we got to just forget
06:42about some of the stuff and go with the things that we say okay this would be something that i
06:46think
06:46will make a difference as it does it made a difference with people that didn't even think of this
06:52vision but once they see it they say okay i understand now agreed let's uh i want to let
06:58people chime in man will is in stafford will what do you think of the new unis
07:03hey guys uh they're great man i think a 99.9 home run i would just make the the w
07:09with the spear i'd
07:10make it the full logo across the whole thing i think uh for for the first time i actually liked
07:14the w but uh finally got rid of the laffy taffy yellow color with the pants and everything and
07:21uh it's great i already i ordered a hat i would have ordered a jersey but i want to wait
07:25until after
07:25the draft to see who we get and uh thanks guys i love it man thanks for the call will
07:30so i i did ask
07:31mark if there was a conversation about putting the spear on the burgundy helmet because
07:39you know you're rebranding you're you're going through it i thought his answer was really
07:43interesting he said multiple times we are on a journey yeah right which i think is is pretty
07:49telling when you're on a journey that means things are going to continue to change they could
07:54evolve right and and specifically when i asked about putting the spear on the w he said we're going
07:59to continue to think about how we bring more elements of our heritage i am of the belief and
08:05this is this is just my thinking as somebody that's been around a little bit as we get closer to
08:112030
08:12as we get closer to the first game at rfk and what that excitement level will bring i will not
08:20be
08:20surprised if there are further tweaks to the uniform possibility and i think it's important to stress
08:26tweaks because what they've done now is get back to the classics and i loved one thing mark klaus said
08:32when he was sitting with us about going back to the classic burgundy and gold the discipline to
08:39recognize when something is just right is very important totally like when you got an iconic look
08:47don't mess with it don't mess it up that's why you have alternates you're allowed to do whatever
08:52you want with alternates you know what especially just being in scotland the amount of alternate jerseys
08:58these classic soccer teams have there's like 10 of them in a in a league in the nfl when they're
09:04constantly looking at new avenues for revenue you're telling me in 10 years there might not be another
09:10alternate university of oregon set the tone for everybody sure hell they had what 25 000 jerseys
09:17combinations they had over there so i i i think today is a day to celebrate a great change being
09:24made by the organization to get back to what looks good and i don't think in any way does it
09:30close the
09:30door that the the only door that is closed is the old name that door is closed yeah but like
09:35i don't
09:36think the old logo will ever be on a helmet again but if you're telling me in 2031 the the
09:43commanders are
09:43playing the cowboys on monday night football and the burgundy helmet now has a spear on it i don't
09:48think that door is closed at all we're on a journey folks uh let's go to danny in dc danny
09:54what's up
09:55dude hey hey mitch hey jp welcome back jp hope you're thanks but you had a great trip it's uh
10:03the 50 50 man
10:04i you know josh we got a truck it's all starting to fall into place a new a new stadium
10:11back in
10:12in our old ground and now the new look it's awesome appreciate it all right thanks for the call
10:19brother b how often do we open the phones and everybody's just feeling positive like when does
10:26that happen um let's go to mary ellen is in ashburn mary ellen what's up hey guys how you doing
10:34good um
10:35i i basically um i guess i'm excited the first time i've been excited about the unis since
10:41you know the debacle of changing changing the name happened um because obviously the unis are
10:47just back to what we were in the super bowl years so you know that's an a plus for me
10:51the helmet like
10:52you guys have said i wish that you know you've been talking about you know they i can't stand the
10:57taco w but it's just embarrassing but at least you know they should have done the spear on on both
11:03helmets but um at least it's getting back to the real colors not i mean i can't believe nike botched
11:11it that bad i don't think it was nike it wasn't nike i can just nike just develop what was
11:17given to
11:17those colors weren't even close i mean what's the gray even if it was slight like the gray stripe on
11:26the on the white jerseys what what was that i mean just little things like that just didn't make it
11:33it wasn't it's funny they're not thank you for the call i guess i guess i'm pretty you're good yeah
11:39you're good so i think a person like mary ellen who clearly is not thrilled that they had to change
11:44names and all these things happen even a lady and i don't want to speak for her but i think
11:49she said
11:49this even mary ellen's happy with what they did yeah yeah i posted a tweet and this is hardly like
11:55a
11:56scientific way to to find results right but i posted a poll just on my twitter at jp finley mbcs
12:03if you
12:03want to vote um and i tried to paint with a broad brush here i said commanders fans how you
12:10feeling
12:10about the new uniforms i gave four options brian tell me if this seems pretty fair love it like it
12:16and
12:17not a fan 55 said love it and another 35 said like it okay well that's 90 of fans you're
12:28done
12:29right we normally go majority wins right right majority has one uh let's go to kurt in ashburn
12:36kurt what up man hello gentlemen um the uniform i like the best is the one i saw when i
12:45was sitting
12:46at the 45 yard line in pasadena at the super bowl 1983 that combination that was the best to me
12:52i was born and raised in detroit people don't know as long as uh indian population
12:59and my best friend was kippewa or as they call themselves ojibwe so i didn't really like the
13:05name redskin i didn't want to fend him but i'll tell you this i don't like the black uniforms i
13:11just
13:11don't and what i wanted when they originally had this controversy said don't change the logo just
13:17change the name to powhatan or algonquin which was indigenous populations in this area or
13:23feeling that potomac's which was an algonquin village kurt i appreciate i'll be honest with
13:28you bro we're not re-litigating you're the only person i've heard that don't like the black uniforms
13:32and you you arguing about something that's not there they have new uniforms they're gonna go with
13:36that the name is not changing yeah thank you for the call kurt i appreciate it i don't want to
13:42change it's fine okay take care bud i want to be clear i want the phones open all day all
13:49day
13:49i randomly i don't know how it ended up to be it was 2020 right the whole world changed 2020
14:00covid
14:00george floyd everything changed hell yeah back then on this station i was doing fill-in shifts and i think
14:08it was either a holiday or it might have been a saturday i don't remember what day of the week
14:14it was
14:14but i did the show when the news came out that they were they were leaving the name redskins they
14:23weren't even if you go back in time the name the the first piece of news was we're going to
14:28do a
14:28review of our name and see what needs to change as soon as you announce you're doing a review means
14:34you're getting rid of the name period and let's not try to dress anything up snyder only did it because
14:39he was going to lose a lot of money the the bank of america forced him to do it right
14:43this was a
14:44i think that three-letter network i mean three-letter entity nfl made him change it too well dude it's
14:50all money yeah right it was it was you're going to lose your sponsorships it's fedex it's bank of
14:54america it's nike whatever this was a unique time of our of our world but i did that show and
15:00had
15:00people call it and screaming and we talked about the name for hours we're not doing that today
15:04but like if you want to call and try to relitigate the name change this is not going to be
15:10your program
15:11we're not doing that because it's over it's just over we're six years into it the owner that has done
15:18nothing but the absolute best for the franchise the owner that grew up here love this team has
15:24has said we're going to get back to rfk they're getting back to rfk and said we're going to win
15:28for a season they won they got the nfc championship yeah has said we're going to look back fondly on
15:34our
15:35history proudly has reintroduced the old beautiful jerseys like that same dude who has delivered on
15:43all of his promises has told you repeatedly the name's not coming back repeatedly he said it to me
15:51a half dozen times we're i'm not here to relitigate the name he could like stallion i love you
16:00i want the phones to be open all day if somebody calls in and the call is about the name
16:06we're not
16:06taking it we'll do like i'm just i can't do this anymore was was the i loved the washington redskins
16:14with my entire damn heart the the team nickname redskins is better than commanders but none of that
16:19matters anymore sorry now let's see if uh my man frank in virginia frank what's up
16:28oh yeah hi jp and brian what's up man uh look listen uh i i'm calling i like the uniforms
16:36great
16:36but but i hate that w on the side of that helmet because that's snyder's idea i like for them
16:44i have
16:44a great idea could you pass it on to the president that you had there for for the team sure
16:49why not
16:51put a commander on the side of the helmet and if you need someone to play that commander um
16:59i i can't remember his name but he was the safety we had that that was killed in florida sean
17:05taylor
17:05yeah all right man appreciate it frank there's an idea mark klaus if you're listening there's a
17:10suggestion i think honestly even the w which i'm not a fan of looks so much better because the helmet
17:17is glossy again and has the stripes again that's a good looking helmet like the helmet has a w
17:23looks good nobody go anywhere be mr finley i'm taking your calls even if it drives me absolutely nuts
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