{"id":353842,"date":"2025-09-09T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:19:16","slug":"terry-bradshaw-uses-washington-commanders-old-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353842\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Bradshaw uses Washington Commanders\u2019 old name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As calls for the Washington Commanders to return to their old monicker get louder, Terry Bradshaw inadvertently tested the name out on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>During Fox NFL Sunday, Bradshaw was tasked with reading through a highlight package from the Commanders\u2019 21-6 Week 1 win over the New York Giants. And he nearly made it through the highlight unscathed, until it was time to say Washington\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Terry Bradshaw always keeps his highlights interesting on Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bi47v1Ohuk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Bi47v1Ohuk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1965047704037572823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington takes it in for the 19-yard touchdown,\u201d Bradshaw said. \u201cAll Redskins, 21-6 over the New York Football Giants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/fox\/boomer-esiason-terry-bradshaw-highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">always an adventure<\/a> when Bradshaw reads highlights for Fox. The audience has grown accustomed to hearing mistakes, with it almost become schtick for the 77-year-old analyst to stumble through his highlight packages. But in terms of Sunday\u2019s mistake, old habits die hard.<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/cbs\/tony-romo-redskins-blooper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">isn\u2019t the first announcer<\/a> to swap Commanders for their old monicker, and he won\u2019t be the last, especially as calls grow louder for Washington\u2019s NFL franchise to change their name again.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/president-trump-demands-washington-commanders-old-name-immediately.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">threatened to stand in the way of the Commanders\u2019 plans to build a new stadium<\/a> in Washington D.C. if they don\u2019t switch back to their previous name, a Native American slur. And while Trump\u2019s effort seems unlikely to succeed, he undoubtedly lit the debate on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw using the name on Sunday, however, seemed more like an honest mistake, one many football fans have made since the old monicker was dropped five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As calls for the Washington Commanders to return to their old monicker get louder, Terry Bradshaw inadvertently tested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,14276,6,16026,11718,855,111,5176,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-353842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-fox-nfl-sunday","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-on-fox","13":"tag-terry-bradshaw","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-commanders","16":"tag-washington-redskins","17":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115173599810905201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}