--- description: Plus he talks about gun control in the new issue of GQ title: Matthew McConaughey Hopes the Redskins Don't Change Their Name image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1990b18a1563e74/698761ff5f570f1e55b12d95/o-matthew-mcconaughey-570.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Matthew McConaughey Hopes the Redskins Don't Change Their Name  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 21, 2014 2:36 PM CUT  GQ's November 2014 Cover GQ's November 2014 CoverGQ  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 21, 2014 2:36 PM CUT Matthew McConaughey has offered his two cents on the Redskins controversy. In an interview with _GQ_, the _Interstellar_ actor compared the controversy over the team’s name to the gun control debate. Yes, really: --- > “” --- Confused? Same here. And why is McConaughey, who hails from Texas, a Redskins fan, anyway? “First, four years old, watching Westerns, I always rooted for the Indians,” McConaughey, who once played a football coach in _We Are Marshall_, said. “Second, my favorite food was hamburgers. The Redskins had a linebacker named Chris Hanburger.” The interviewer asked McConaughey if he would be hurt to see the logo gone. “It’s not going to _hurt_ me. It’s just… I love the emblem,” the Oscar winner said. “I dig it. It gives me a little fire and some oomph. But now that it’s in the court of public opinion, it’s going to change. I wish it wouldn’t, but it will.” Alright. Alright. Alright. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3528445/matthew-mcconaughey-gq-redskins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3528445/matthew-mcconaughey-gq-redskins/"},"headline":"Matthew McConaughey Hopes the Redskins Don't Change Their Name","datePublished":"2014-10-21T14:36:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:54:57.157Z","description":"Plus, he talks about gun control!","url":"https://time.com/3528445/matthew-mcconaughey-gq-redskins/","keywords":["celebrities","Matthew McConaughey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1990b18a1563e74/698761ff5f570f1e55b12d95/o-matthew-mcconaughey-570.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1990b18a1563e74/698761ff5f570f1e55b12d95/o-matthew-mcconaughey-570.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"o-MATTHEW-MCCONAUGHEY-570","caption":"GQ's November 2014 Cover","creditText":"GQ","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3528445/matthew-mcconaughey-gq-redskins/","name":"Matthew McConaughey Hopes the Redskins Don't Change Their Name"}}]}] ```