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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.
The controversy over the name of the Washington Redskins has escalated to the point where we could actually see a name change." [233] Tony Dungy, former NFL coach and current NBC analyst: "A couple of weeks ago, someone asked Dungy in the NBC viewing room when the name should change. 'Fifteen years ago,' Dungy said."
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]
A Washington Post-Schar School poll in April showed only 16 percent of Commanders fans supported keeping the name, adopted in 2022 after the franchise spent two seasons as the Washington Football ...
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 team played as the Washington Football Team for two seasons before rebranding as the Commanders in 2022. Washington won the 1937 and 1942 NFL championship games and Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI. Washington has finished a season as league runner-up six times, losing the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 title games and Super Bowls VII and XVIII.
Washington’s NFL team is now known as the Commanders. The new name unveiled Wednesday comes 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that ...
While varying somewhat, national opinion polls conducted during the peak of the controversy consistently indicated that a majority of the general public did not advocate a name change. In an April 2013 poll by AP - GfK , 79 percent responded that the name should not change, 11 percent said it should change, 8 percent had no opinion and 2 ...