The Commanders play their fight song "Hail to the Commanders." Some traditions over time have to be tweaked. The NFL franchise in Washington used to be called the Redskins and the song was known ...

By the start of the 1938 season, the Washington Redskins Marching Band had been assembled. Step two was to come up with an appropriately jaunty and rousing team fight song. The band members ...

At Washington & Lee in Arlington ... the Redskin band director who had written the music to the Redskins fight song. Breeskin, smelling an opportunity for revenge in the strained negotiations ...

The original version was known as "Fight, Eagles, Fight," something that was changed in the newer lyrics. It was designed to be Philadelphia's version of Washington's song, which is now known as "Hail ...

Originally, the song’s title and first line were “Fight, Eagles, Fight,” but that was changed when the long-forgotten song was reintroduced by the team in 1999. According to SI.com ...

The NFL franchise in Washington used to be called ... "Hail to the Redskins/Commanders" is the second-oldest fight song for an American football team. "Go! You Packers! Go!" was composed just ...