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The new name, the Washington Commanders, was announced on February 2, 2022. [28] In its press release, the team made no mention of the racial controversy, instead emphasizing the military symbolism of the graphic elements in the redesigned "W" primary logo that goes along with the new name.
After a years-long battle to jettison the widely attacked “Redskins” name from Washington’s NFL team, a Republican senator is battling to revive the old logo featuring a depiction of a ...
The Washington Commanders have been under new ownership for a few months now, and there are likely many changes in store for the franchise over the next year. One thing that will remain in the ...
The Washington Commanders, formerly known as the Washington Redskins, are an American football team belonging to the National Football League (NFL). The rule, named the Redskins Rule, stated that if they won their last home game before the election, the incumbent party would win and that if they lost, the challenging party would win. [1]
A petition has 76,000 signatures from people who want to change back to the old name, which many Indigenous and Native Americans deem a racial slur.
The franchise changed its name the following year to the Redskins and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937. [1] In 2020, the team retired the Redskins name after longstanding controversies surrounding it and briefly became the Washington Football Team, before choosing the Washington Commanders as their permanent name in 2022. [1]
In July 2023 a Washington Commanders fan started a Change.org petition asking that the team name be changed back to Redskins. [7] Subsequently, news reports began attributing the petition to NAGA, [8] followed by reports that NAGA would start a boycott similar to that affecting Anheuser-Busch.
Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez has issued a statement in response to the Washington Redskins’ decision to change the team name. The Washington franchise has officially retired the team ...