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Commanders’ response to Dan Quinn’s T-shirt featuring an old emblem is “no organisational comment.”…………………….
With just two feathers, Commanders coach Dan Quinn created quite a stir on Saturday.
The Commanders declared their “no organisational comment” on the situation on Sunday.
As far as we can tell, Quinn donned the T-shirt by himself without the team’s knowledge. The head coach’s display of a hybrid of the current and old logos may have looked like a sort of trial balloon, but the Commanders aren’t exploring the possibility of bringing back the long-forgotten name and logo or incorporating elements of the old logo into the new one.
Quinn’s next press conference will surely include questions about it.
There is no formal licence for the T-shirt. The social media bots that are overflowing with links to buy the shirt are selling merchandise that violates the organization’s trademarks. Quinn’s unintentional assistance in infringing efforts presents a different set of challenges for the team, as they will need to arrange for their lawyers to stop the T-shirt sellers in order to save the related copyrights.
If the company is really that committed to ditching the previous name and logo behind closed doors, Quinn should have realised after almost four months with the Commanders that he was about to dance on a third rail, even if the team was unaware that he was doing it. Quinn doesn’t exactly have a history for rebelling, so it’s also possible that he hasn’t been given the idea that the previous name and emblem are off limits.
In other words, he misread the room, misinterpreted the idea that everything would be OK, or both.
He now knows, if he didn’t know before Saturday. The next one, if there is one, cannot be explained in the same way if this one was, as it appears, an accident.