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Minkah: Bucs QB can have 'FitzMagic' if wanted

DAVIE, Fla. -- Minkah Fitzpatrick never expected trademarking a nickname to get so much vulgar backlash.

Two days after news broke that Fitzpatrick filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for "FitzMagic," he expressed anger with keyboard warriors who attacked him and his family, and offered the nickname to Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Ryan Fitzpatrick if it came to that.

"If he wants the name, he can take it if he wants," Minkah Fitzpatrick said of Ryan Fitzpatrick, no relation. "He's a great football player. If he wants it, contact me and my people and he can have it if he wants it.