Archive for August, 2025

Joe Guyon & Gus Cohen to be Honored

August 29, 2025

September is going to be a busy month with the football season and some events being held honoring players I’ve written about.

🗓️ Louisville Event Schedule – September 16–17, 2025 Honoring Joe Guyon

📍Tuesday, September 16 – 6:00 PM Frazier History Museum 829 W Main St, Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 753-5663 An evening program celebrating Joe’s life and contributions as part of the museum’s Cool Kentucky exhibit.

📍Wednesday, September 17 – 9:00 AM Resthaven Memorial Park 4400 Bardstown Rd, Louisville, KY 40218 (502) 491-5950 A short graveside ceremony to honor Joe as the Pro Football Hall of Fame Medallion is officially presented and installed on his headstone.

📍Wednesday, September 17 – 12:05 PM Louisville Slugger Field 401 E Main St, Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 212-2287 Join us for Joe Guyon Day at the Ballpark, celebrating his years with the Louisville Colonels. A Guyon family member may throw out the first pitch, and there may be live interviews with family on the radio during the game.

🗓️ Reading, Pennsylvania Event Schedule – September 20, 2025 Honoring Gus Cohen

📍Saturday, September 20 – 11:00 AM Albright College

Celebrate the College’s placing of a plaque in former Albright and NFL player Gus Cohen’s honor in the football team’s locker room/training area.

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A New Voice Has Joined the Fray

August 16, 2025

Native American and former Washington Redskins star Jason Buck has voiced his support for returning the team name from Commanders to the one he helped win Super Bowl XXVI in January 1992 with. Some years he played defensive end, the Super Bowl year he was at defensive tackle in the against the Buffalo Bills. Jason has become outspoken regarding the Redskins issue. He told Fox and Friends:

“I’m a Native American, so I’m a real Redskin and a proud one. The Redskin is our name. The first written record of the use of the word Redskin was from a Native American chief from the Illinois tribe… writing to a British military colonel about us, the Redskins. It’s our word. The European words are Indian and savage and now indigenous.” 

He also told TMZ Sports he wants to talk to Trump about the name and would tell him:

“Just stand with us and stand for common sense and help us. Help me bring the Redskin people back in, completely into the fold of the United States, so we can fix their system and have them enjoy the exact principles of the Constitution given to us by God and our founding fathers … Let’s, let’s make sure that our Redskin brothers that helped build this nation have the same exact opportunities and blessings.”

Buck described the team’s name change: “It’s like your grandma passed away, and your grandpa marries a new woman, and she comes in and takes all the pictures out of the house and puts hers up. It’s like, you just lost your family. It was devastating to everybody.”

Buck has associated with Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), a group of Native Americans that lobbies for the return of the Redskins name, as a member of their board of directors.

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Trump Wants Redskins Back

August 10, 2025

President Trump has resurrected the Redskins controversy. He picked this time because the team is requesting approvals to build a new stadium on the site of old RFK Stadium, which has been demolished. In April of this year, the team and the DC government, which holds a 99-year lease on the site, announced plans to build a $3.7 B stadium on the site. A Washington Post article reported that the D. C. Council had advanced the project on August 1. $1B would come from public funds and another $1B in tax breaks for the team. The team would pay $1 a year for 30 years to use the facility. After that, they would pay unstated full rent. An ESPN article that day put the team’s investment at $2.7B plus the cost of overruns. It is yet to be seen how the financial arrangement would work out.

In July, President Trump threatened to hold up the new stadium deal unless the team reverts back to using Redskins as its name again. Although wanting to retain the Commanders name, owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer have been warning business associates privately that the President does have some leverage over the stadium. What might that leverage be?

Advancement of the plan does not mean approval. It will need approvals from US agencies such as the National Capital Planning Commission and the US Commission of Fine Arts, both of which have Trump appointees on their boards. It will also need to be approved by the Trump administration’s environmental team.

D. C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelsohn told a local radio station, 106.7 The Fan, that he would have no problem with the name change and thought the city would welcome the team back if it was renamed. He cited past opposition to the Redskins name had more to do with the widely disliked owner Dan Snyder than the team name.

The Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) has been arguing for retaining Indian team names for several years. Their motto, “Educate not Eradicate,” fears eliminating team names is just another means of eradicating Indians. They cite polls of Native Americans in which 90% of respondents have no problems with Redskins. NAGA finds Commanders as representing oppressors.

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