General Forum

Exactly as it should be.

We need a database for the Washington Football Team that starts with 2020 cards, and another one for the Washington Redskins that includes everything prior to 2020. Dropping the name in 2020 does not retroactively drop the name from the Redskin teams of 2019 and prior.

Individual cards correctly display whatever the franchise was called at the time the player played, whether Washington Redskins, Boston Redskins, or just Washington. When visiting the page for a franchise it displays the current name of the franchise, which in this case is just Washington.

So then, with that thought in mind... when visiting the page for the Titans franchise does it include all of the Oilers cards?

No. As it shouldn't. A nickname change warrants a new TID. Houston Oilers, Tennessee Oilers, and Tennessee Titans all have different TIDs, and TIDs should be assigned to cards based on how they are labeled on the card.

In theory, DaveK_ND is correct that there should be two separate TIDs. However, this was a change behind the scenes by Admin himself. He has his reasons, and if you'd like him to share them with you, I recommend that you message him directly. Seeing as the change affected nearly 80,000 cards, I imagine that he had a pretty good reason for the way things are - or he didn't realize what happened and may need to be informed so that it can be addressed.

Jason is right that Admin has his reason for changing it, and I believe it was the right call.  The team and the league has decided to retire the name and in the interim are just called Washington Football Team.  The 2020 cards I've seen so far has not been updated to that name change so until whenever the team and the league decides on a new name and cards are released, there is no need to create a new TID.  The current page makes no other modifications to the team other then removing the nickname on the team page (which is the current incarnation of the team.  I think it makes perfect sense.