Redskins embarrassingly misspelled London Fletcher's name during Ring of Honor induction

Liz Roscher
·Staff writer
Updated

Monday was a bad night for the Washington Redskins, who lost 31-15 to the Chicago Bears on a national stage. But things were bad even when no football was being played.

The Redskins inducted LB London Fletcher into their Ring of Honor during halftime, which included a short on-field ceremony. His name and picture were up on the scoreboard, but it looks like no one bothered to run spellcheck.

“London Flecther.” Yes, the Redskins misspelled the name of their own Ring of Honor inductee.

Just like losing a football game, this feels incredibly on-brand for the Redskins. This team has managed to be terrible not just at the game of football, but at relatively simple things like correctly spelling the name of an honored player.

It’s hard to measure the level of embarrassment on this one. Is it more embarrassing than the state of their team? Let’s take a look at a few stats.

Considering that the main purpose of the Washington Redskins organization is to win football games, something that they’ve been failing at for quite some time, misspelling London Fletcher’s name can’t take the top spot on the weekly laundry list of Redskins embarrassments. But it’s pretty close to the top because it’s such a simple thing to avoid doing. Maybe get a person or two to look over your shoulder as you’re typing this very important thing. Or turn spellcheck on. Or copy and paste. Or just type slowly.

The Redskins’ next home game is Oct. 6. Hopefully they can manage to spell everything right by then.

When London Fletcher was inducted into the Redskins' Ring of Honor, his name was misspelled on the scoreboard. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
When London Fletcher was inducted into the Redskins' Ring of Honor, his name was misspelled on the scoreboard. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

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