Pittsburgh Ultimate Team Considers Name Change To Washington Redskins

According to Sin The Fields podcast [December 31, 2015 episode], the selection process of Pittsburgh's co-ed ultimate team — Muff'n Men — is underway. The team played as "Muff'n Men" since its founding in 2007, but the mixed division team was forced to change their name by USA Ultimate for the Triple Crown tour 2015 season.

Sin The Fields did a 4-minute segment (starting at 30:00 *WARNING: strong language*) on some of the poll choices of Pittsburghian options plus the write-in choices.  And, the write-in with one of the most votes was...
"Washington Redskins" with 6 total votes.

See the online poll: https://polldaddy.com/poll/9161069/

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Patrick Stegemoeller, co-host of STF, labeled the DC NFL football team choice as "Andy Kaufman-level."

Co-host Tad Wissel dared the Pittsburgh ultimate team to "do the right thing."

While some politicians have publicly opined that the Washington professional football team should change the name, it's clear the name change remains a hot button issue for the NFL team. States are even taking measures to forbid the use of Native American names as mascots.

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See below for The Muff 'n Men's team name poll introduction and a disclaimer that votes are "informational only and will be used to help determine a new team name."

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New Cleats?

Every ultimate player can appreciate their other sport's cleats to play our sport.

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Seattle AUDL Team Aligns with Sockeye

Casc-eyes?  Sock-ades?

Seattle's AUDL team, Cascades, announced a partnership with the men's club ultimate team, Sockeye. The cooperation net goes beyond the playing roster by capturing coaches, too.

Per the announcement: "Sockeye and Cascades will share the same captains and coaching staff. Most of the players who join the Cascades will transition to Sockeye in June, after which the two rosters will be fairly similar. Throughout the entire season, [General Manager] Xtehn will work closely with the Sockeye leadership to plan and execute roster decisions, fitness planning, and on field practices. "

A similar partnership between Seattle Cascades and Seattle Sockeye happened in 2015.

AUDL West Team Dissed by AUDL

The American Ultimate Disc League started the new calendar year by dissing one of the most successful teams in its history.

January 1st tweet.

New year? Yes. Happy 2016!
New champions? Well, the (repeat champions) San Jose Spiders might have an opinion about that.

Do Over: December 2015

Catch up on last month's noteworthy posts you may have missed...

FiveThirtyEight had a fling with ultimate

Every day is Spirit of the Game Day, but specifically December 3rd

Schedule for Washington DC Current's MLU 2016 season

What started with a Star Wars connection with the New York Empire grew into a plethora of logo mashups with AUDL teams.

Happy 2016

Happy New Year!

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Have a happy 2016 on and off the field!