franchise said they would begin a process to rename the team in the wake of recent criticism from advertisers and after years of downplaying the controversy.
Officials of the team, long known as the Redskins, said Monday they “will be retiring the Redskins name and logo” following a review of possible new options.
Washington is dropping the Huskies as their name/mascot? About time! Offensive to chubby boys
Please name who exactly is complaining?
RockyMntnMike Ther won’t be football anyway...I hope that the NFL is strangled economically and never is heard from again. Imagine a world with no violet sports!
Offensive? Please. What’s going to be the new name? The Indigenous Peoples of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Region? 🤦🏾♀️
Lame and gay
*decades of backlash
It's a bit stupid that you can't even write it in an article about a name change. Which team are we talking about again?
I find Variety to be offensive. Especially since Hollywood has been stuck on the same story line forever and has put out TONS of movies denigrating native Americans and Blacks. I'm offended that there is no Variety. Changing yours?
You mean “Redskins’
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