Would You Risk This To Get The Redskins Name Back?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports, Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From 06/23 Hour 3: The Sports Junkies pose a question about the Commanders name change.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. Junkies coming to you live on 1067 the fan and the team 980 here in the DMV.
0:07.0	Over the weekend at the age of 80, Fred Smith passed away. So who's Fred Smith? Founder of FedEx.
0:15.4	He's the father of Arthur Smith, who is an offensive coordinator for the Steelers right now, but has been a head coach in the NFL.
0:23.8	And of course, he was part owner of the Washington Redskins now commanders.
0:29.4	There's actually a great story that I'm sure you guys saw a great anecdote.
0:33.6	I think it was in the 70s that he was having trouble making payroll and he took like the last
0:39.8	5,000. Did you see this? Feliz? Took like the last $5,000 and it was in Vegas or something and ran it
0:46.2	up in blackjack up to like 27K and was able to keep the company afloat. Wow. I did not see that. He hit a few
0:51.9	blackjack hands and then he could make payroll.
0:54.3	And then he was paying.
0:55.0	And then it got him
0:56.0	like through the next week or so
0:57.8	and then he was able to
0:59.1	somehow keep it going.
1:00.9	But that's how
1:01.6	that's how close to
1:02.9	FedEx not being a thing
1:04.3	was.
1:06.2	Now he is
1:07.6	part of the reason
1:09.6	Snyder is no longer the owner of the team.
1:12.6	That's right.
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